Emissive display configured for through-display imaging based on collimator structure
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12279507
A display configuration to facilitate imaging through the display is disclosed. The imaging can be achieved by positioning a camera behind a transmit/receive area (120,122) of a display. The transmit/receive area is configured to reduce the interaction between the light propagating through the display and circuit elements of the display. The configuration of the transmit/receive area can be characterized by reduced pixel density, rearranged circuit elements (1242), and as light blocking…
Batch processing in a neural network processor
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12277496
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating a respective neural network output for each of a plurality of inputs, the method comprising, for each of the neural network layers: receiving a plurality of inputs to be processed at the neural network layer; forming one or more batches of inputs from the plurality of inputs, each batch having a number of inputs up to the respective batch size for the neural network layer;…
Simplified sharing of content among computing devices
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12277309
In one general aspect, a method can include displaying, on a display device included in a computing device, content in an application executing on the computing device. The method can further include displaying, in a user interface on the display device, at least one identifier, receiving a selection of the at least one identifier, and initiating casting in response to receiving the selection of the at least one identifier.
Generating and/or adapting automated assistant content according to a distance between user(s) and an automated assistant interface
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12277259
Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for generating and/or adapting automated assistant content according to a distance of a user relative to an automated assistant interface that renders the automated assistant content. For instance, the automated assistant can provide data for a client device to render. The client device can request additional data when the user relocates closer to, or further from, the client device. In some implementations, a request…
Label propagation in a distributed system
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12277174
Data are maintained in a distributed computing system that describe a graph. The graph represents relationships among items. The graph has a plurality of vertices that represent the items and a plurality of edges connecting the plurality of vertices. At least one vertex of the plurality of vertices includes a set of label values indicating the at least one vertex's strength of association with a label from a set of labels. The set of labels describe possible characteristics of an item…
Active thermal-control of a floodlight and associated floodlights
Granted: April 15, 2025
Patent Number:
12276413
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…
Thermal management with antenna modules
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12273167
A user equipment (UE) manages thermal levels of antenna modules with reference to a temperature threshold. The UE includes multiple antenna modules having a first antenna module and a second antenna module and at least one wireless transceiver coupled to the multiple antenna modules. The UE also includes a processor and memory system implementing an antenna module thermal manager. The manager is configured to obtain a first temperature indication corresponding to the first antenna module…
Video stream adaptive filtering for bitrate reduction
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12273533
Adaptive filtering is used video stream for bitrate reduction. A first copy of the input video stream is encoded to a reference bitstream. Each of a number of candidate filters is applied to each frame of a second copy of the input video stream to produce a filtered second copy of the input video stream. The filtered second copy is encoded to a candidate bitstream. A cost value for the candidate filter is determined based on distortion value and bitrate differences between the candidate…
Obtaining video quality scores from inconsistent training quality scores
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12273521
A training dataset that includes a first dataset and a second dataset is received. The first dataset includes a first subset of first videos corresponding to a first context and respective first ground truth quality scores of the first videos, and the second dataset includes a second subset of second videos corresponding to a second context and respective second ground truth quality scores of the second videos. A machine learning model is trained to predict the respective first ground…
Privacy-preserving virtual email system
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12273336
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for creating and using virtual email addresses for user privacy protection and data security are described. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, from a user device and at an identity server, login credentials for a first email address mapped to a first set of user information values, detecting, by the identity server, a trigger event, in response to detecting the trigger event,…
Hybrid depth maps
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12271992
A method including receiving (S605) a request for a depth map, generating (S625) a hybrid depth map based on a device depth map (110) and downloaded depth information (105), and responding (S630) to the request for the depth map with the hybrid depth map (415). The device depth map (110) can be depth data captured on a user device (515) using sensors and/or software. The downloaded depth information (105) can be associated with depth data, map data, image data, and/or the like stored on…
Direct liquid cooling with O-ring sealing
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12272619
Systems and methods for utilizing the dead space around the periphery of a chip for sealing a direct liquid cooled module are disclosed. One of the functions of a direct liquid cooled module is to provide cooling liquid to components located on a chip. A groove member for receiving a sealing member may be applied to the top surface of the chip. The groove member may be directly deposited to the top surface or coupled thereto via an adhesive and/or epoxy. The groove member may be in the…
Transfer learning between different computer vision tasks
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12272442
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training a neural network to perform a downstream computer vision task. One of the methods includes pre-training an initial neural network that shares layers with the neural network to perform an initial computer vision task and then training the neural network on the downstream computer vision task.
Methods and systems for presenting media content with multiple media elements in an editing environment
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12272382
In one example, a system comprises a hardware processor that is configured to: receive a request to modify a video content item containing a plurality of media elements; present a user interface that includes a video track representation of the video content item and a layered representation of the plurality of media elements, wherein each media element is represented by a media overlay element positioned proximal to the video track representation, wherein at least one media overlay…
Advancing the use of text and speech in ASR pretraining with consistency and contrastive losses
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12272363
A method includes receiving training data that includes unspoken text utterances, un-transcribed non-synthetic speech utterances, and transcribed non-synthetic speech utterances. Each unspoken text utterance is not paired with any corresponding spoken utterance of non-synthetic speech. Each un-transcribed non-synthetic speech utterance is not paired with a corresponding transcription. Each transcribed non-synthetic speech utterance is paired with a corresponding transcription. The method…
Using corrections, of automated assistant functions, for training of on-device machine learning models
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12272360
Processor(s) of a client device can: receive sensor data that captures environmental attributes of an environment of the client device; process the sensor data using a machine learning model to generate a predicted output that dictates whether one or more currently dormant automated assistant functions are activated; making a decision as to whether to trigger the one or more currently dormant automated assistant functions; subsequent to making the decision, determining that the decision…
Dynamic and/or context-specific hot words to invoke automated assistant
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12272356
Techniques are described herein for enabling the use of “dynamic” or “context-specific” hot words for an automated assistant. In various implementations, an automated assistant may be operated at least in part on a computing device. Audio data captured by a microphone may be monitored for default hot word(s). Detection of one or more of the default hot words may trigger transition of the automated assistant from a limited hot word listening state into a speech recognition state.…
Attention-based clockwork hierarchical variational encoder
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12272349
A method for representing an intended prosody in synthesized speech includes receiving a text utterance having at least one word, and selecting an utterance embedding for the text utterance. Each word in the text utterance has at least one syllable and each syllable has at least one phoneme. The utterance embedding represents an intended prosody. For each syllable, using the selected utterance embedding, the method also includes: predicting a duration of the syllable by decoding a…
Variable brightness dimming of display peripherals
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12272306
In general, the subject matter described in this disclosure can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for presenting display content on a display of a computing system. A method includes selecting, from a collection of luminance profiles that are each configured to reduce brightness of the display content in different manners, a first luminance profile based on the current display brightness setting, the first luminance profile specifying a first amount of brightness…
Calibration-free instant motion tracking for augmented reality
Granted: April 8, 2025
Patent Number:
12272096
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for calibration-free instant motion tracking useful, for example, for rending virtual content in augmented reality settings. In particular, a computing system can iteratively augment image frames that depict a scene to insert virtual content at an anchor region within the scene, including situations in which the anchor region moves relative to the scene. To do so, the computing system can estimate, for each of a number of sequential…
