Image watermarking
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12190403
Methods, systems, and computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, that relate to extracting digital watermarks from images, irrespective of distortions introduced into these images. Methods can include inputting a first data item into a channel encoder that can generate a first encoded data item that is greater in length than the first data item and that (1) includes the input data item and (2) new data this is redundant of the input data item. Based on the first encoded data…
Time marking of media items at a platform using machine learning
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12192550
Methods and systems for time marking of media items at a platform using machine learning are provided herein. A media item to be provided to users of a platform is identified. The media item includes two or more content segments. An indication of the identified media item is provided as input to a machine learning model. The machine learning model is trained using to predict, for a given media item, content segments of the given media item depicting an event of interest to the one or…
Determining watch time loss regions in media content items
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12192544
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining watch time loss regions in media content items. In one aspect, features for a video are input into a trained model that is trained to output watch time loss regions. The trained model is trained using labels corresponding to known watch time loss regions in training videos and features of training videos that correspond to the known watch time loss regions. A watch time loss…
Video encoding by providing geometric proxies
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12192518
Compressing a frame of video includes receiving a frame of a video, identifying a three dimensional (3D) object in the frame, matching the 3D object to a stored 3D object, compressing the frame of the video using a color prediction scheme based on the 3D object and the stored 3D object, and storing the compressed frame with metadata, the metadata identifying the 3D object, indicating a position of the 3D object in the frame of the video and indicating an orientation of the 3D object in…
Secure network communications that limit information access
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12192377
This disclosure describes systems and techniques for using controlling access to user information using ephemeral user identifiers. In one aspect, a method includes determining, for a given domain, engagement by a user with content provided by the given domain for display by an application at a client device of the user. A determination is made, based on the engagement by the user, to extend, for the given domain, a linkage between user identifiers for a user of the application. In…
Enhanced performance of secure multi-party computation
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12192342
This document relates to using secure MPC to select digital components in ways that preserve user privacy and protects the security of data of each party that is involved in the selection process. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, by a first computing system of a secure MPC system and from a client device, a digital component request and a nonce. The first computing system generates, based on the nonce and a function, an array including a share of a Bloom filter representing…
Using non-parallel voice conversion for speech conversion models
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12190862
A method includes receiving a set of training utterances each including a non-synthetic speech representation of a corresponding utterance, and for each training utterance, generating a corresponding synthetic speech representation by using a voice conversion model. The non-synthetic speech representation and the synthetic speech representation form a corresponding training utterance pair. At each of a plurality of output steps for each training utterance pair, the method also includes…
Synthesized speech audio data generated on behalf of human participant in conversation
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12190859
Generating synthesized speech audio data on behalf of a given user in a conversation. The synthesized speech audio data includes synthesized speech that incorporates textual segment(s). The textual segment(s) can include recognized text that results from processing spoken input, of the given user, using a speech recognition model and/or can include a selection of a rendered suggestion that conveys the textual segment(s). Some implementations dynamically determine one or more prosodic…
Systems and methods for adjusting light emitted from a display
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12190848
Systems and methods for adjusting light emitted from a display of a device are provided. The adjusting includes obtaining, from light of an environment detected by at least one sensor, a measured color of light of the environment, and obtaining, from light of the environment detected by at least one sensor, a measured brightness of light of the environment. In response to the obtaining the measured color and the measured brightness of light, a color of light emitted from the display is…
Executing computational graphs on graphics processing units
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12190404
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating a data entity that causes a processing unit to process a computational graph. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving data identifying a computational graph, the computational graph including a plurality of nodes representing operations; obtaining compilation artifacts for processing the computational graph on a processing unit; and generating a data entity…
Presenting related content while browsing and searching content
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12189700
Systems and methods for presenting an interface for additional content suggestion can include obtaining data descriptive of the displayed content and determining additional content associated with the displayed content. An interface can then be provided that displays data associated with the displayed content and the additional content. The interface can include a first viewing window for displaying a portion of the displayed content and a second viewing window for displaying a snippet…
Pattern-based classification
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12190244
A method includes receiving interaction data that indicates, for each given interaction among multiple interactions that occurred at a client device, (i) an event type an (ii) a delay period specifying an amount of time between the given event and a previous event that occurred prior to the given event, encoding each given interaction into an encoded interaction having a standardized format that is a combination of (i) the event type and (ii) the delay period, generating an interaction…
Generating and/or using training instances that include previously captured robot vision data and drivability labels
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12190221
Implementations set forth herein relate to generating training data, such that each instance of training data includes a corresponding instance of vision data and drivability label(s) for the instance of vision data. A drivability label can be determined using first vision data from a first vision component that is connected to the robot. The drivability label(s) can be generated by processing the first vision data using geometric and/or heuristic methods. Second vision data can be…
Monitoring communication by a bot to determine a human or an additional bot
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12190064
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for announcing and detecting automated conversation are disclosed. One of the methods includes initiating, over a natural language communication channel, a conversation with a communication participant using a natural language communication method that includes a dialogue of natural language communications. The communication participant is determined to be automated using a pre-defined…
Methods and systems for positioning animated images within a dynamic keyboard interface
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12189942
The present disclosure is directed to positioning animated images within a dynamic keyboard interface. In particular, the methods and systems of the present disclosure can: receive, from a user device on which an application is executed, data indicating a context of: the application, and/or a dynamic keyboard interface provided in association with the application; identify, based at least in part on the data indicating the context, a plurality of different animated images, including an…
Motion stills experience
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12189921
The technology disclosed herein includes a user interface for viewing and combining media items into a video. An example method includes presenting a user interface that displays media items in a first portion of the user interface; receiving user input in the first portion that comprises a selection of a first media item; upon receiving the user input, adding the first media item to a set of selected media items in a second portion of the user interface, and presenting a selectable…
Register file protection
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12189824
An integrated circuit chip can provide protection with registers of a register file. A processor can be part of general or security-oriented (e.g., root-of-trust (RoT)) circuitry. In described implementations, the processor includes multiple register blocks for storing multiple register values. The processor also includes multiple integrity blocks for storing multiple integrity codes. A respective integrity block is associated with a respective register block. The respective integrity…
Secure online collaboration
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12189823
A method for secure online collaboration is provided. The method includes receiving, at a server of a cloud-based storage system, an encrypted edit from a first client device. The cloud-based storage system stores a plurality of documents in an encrypted form. The method also includes determining a document of the plurality of documents that is associated with the encrypted edit. The server is unable to decrypt both the document in the encrypted form and the encrypted edit. The method…
Face authentication embedding migration and drift-compensation
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12189738
This document describes techniques and systems that enable face authentication embedding migration and drift-compensation. The techniques and systems include a user device that is updated to include both a current version of firmware and an updated version of the firmware. Then, an indication of a face-authentication attempt is received along with image data associated with a user's face. After successful authentication, using the current version of firmware on the image data, the user…
Sparse matrix multiplication in hardware
Granted: January 7, 2025
Patent Number:
12189710
Aspects of the disclosure provide for methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer-readable storage media, for sparse matrix multiplication. A system for matrix multiplication includes an array of sparse shards. Each sparse shard can be configured to receive an input sub-matrix and an input sub-vector, where the input sub-matrix has a number of non-zero values equal to or less than a predetermined maximum non-zero threshold. The sparse shard can, by a plurality of multiplier…
