Generating playlists for a content sharing platform based on user actions
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12266023
A method of updating a playlist for a first user includes identifying a client device associated with the first user of a content sharing platform that comprises a plurality of media items, identifying a first playlist of the first user, the first playlist including a first subset of media items, identifying a second subset of media items of the second user, detecting an action performed by the first user with respect to at least one media item of the second subset of media items of the…
Warped reference list for warped motion video coding
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12267484
Encoding and decoding using warped reference list includes generating a reconstructed frame from an encoded bitstream by, for decoding a current block for the reconstructed frame, obtaining a dynamic reference list, obtaining a warped reference list, decoding a warped reference list index value, obtaining optimal predicted warped model parameters from the warped reference list in accordance with the index value, decoding differential warped model parameters, obtaining, as optimal warped…
Determination and display of estimated hold durations for calls
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12267462
Implementations relate to determination and display of estimated hold durations for calls. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method includes obtaining an identifier of a target entity, the identifier usable by a first call device to initiate a call between the first call device and the target entity. A hold duration is determined that is an estimated amount of time before the call is matched to a human agent when the call is initiated at a particular time that is…
Proactive environment-based chat information system
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12267401
Disclosed is the technology for computer-based “Daily Brief” service, which includes methods and corresponding systems for proactively providing push notifications for users of chat information systems. The push notifications are dynamically generated and presented to the user based on identification of one or more triggering events, which may include predetermined time/date, current geographical location, activity of peers and friends in social media associated with the user,…
Proactive rendering of credentials according to determined location characteristics
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12267329
Implementations relate to an automated assistant that can proactively detect and respond to a request for credentials. Characteristics of an entity requesting the credentials can be preemptively determined by the automated assistant using data that may be provided by the user or other previous visitors to a location. For example, the automated assistant can determine that the entity may expressly request certain information from a user when the user arrives at the location. Based on this…
System(s) and method(s) to enable modification of an automatically arranged transcription in smart dictation
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12266359
Implementations described herein generally relate to generating a modification selectable element that may be provided for presentation to a user in a smart dictation session with an automated assistant. The modification selectable element may, when selected, cause a transcription, that includes textual data generated based on processing audio data that captures a spoken utterance and that is automatically arranged, to be modified. The transcription may be automatically arranged to…
End-to-end multi-talker overlapping speech recognition
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12266347
A method for training a speech recognition model with a loss function includes receiving an audio signal including a first segment corresponding to audio spoken by a first speaker, a second segment corresponding to audio spoken by a second speaker, and an overlapping region where the first segment overlaps the second segment. The overlapping region includes a known start time and a known end time. The method also includes generating a respective masked audio embedding for each of the…
Trigger regions
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12266186
A method includes receiving, from a subscriber device, a request including virtual region characteristics and an occupancy threshold, and determining, using image data captured by a camera and the virtual region characteristics, a virtual region corresponding to a portion of a physical region within a field of view of the camera. The virtual region is smaller than the physical region. The method also includes determining, using the image data, an occupancy of the virtual region and…
Automatically segmenting and adjusting images
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12266113
A device automatically segments an image into different regions and automatically adjusts perceived exposure-levels or other characteristics associated with each of the different regions, to produce pictures that exceed expectations for the type of optics and camera equipment being used and in some cases, the pictures even resemble other high-quality photography created using professional equipment and photo editing software. A machine-learned model is trained to automatically segment an…
Visual indicators of generative model response details
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12266065
Systems and methods for providing visual indications of generative model responses can include obtaining a user input and processing the user input with a generative model to generate a model-generated-response. The systems and methods can process the model-generated response and an image of an environment to generate an augmented image. The augmented image can include visual indicators of the model-generated response, which can include annotating the image based on detected features…
Automated assistant that detects and supplements various vehicle computing device capabilities
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12264932
Implementations set forth herein relate to interactions, between vehicle computing devices and mobile computing devices, that reduce duplicative processes from occurring at either device. Reduction of such processes can be performed, in some instances, via communications between a vehicle computing device and a mobile computing device in order to determine, for example, how to uniquely render content at an interface of each respective computing device while the user is driving the…
Neural network layers with a controlled degree of spatial invariance
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12265911
A computing system can include one or more non-transitory computer-readable media that collectively store a neural network including one or more layers with relaxed spatial invariance. Each of the one or more layers can be configured to receive a respective layer input. Each of the one or more layers can be configured to convolve a plurality of different kernels against the respective layer input to generate a plurality of intermediate outputs, each of the plurality of intermediate…
Compression of machine-learned models via entropy penalized weight reparameterization
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12265898
Example aspects of the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods that learn a compressed representation of a machine-learned model (e.g., neural network) via representation of the model parameters within a reparameterization space during training of the model. In particular, the present disclosure describes an end-to-end model weight compression approach that employs a latent-variable data compression method. The model parameters (e.g., weights and biases) are represented in…
Syntactically coherent code segmentation
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12265805
Techniques are described herein for segmenting source code into syntactically coherent sequences of tokens that satisfy constraints inherent in sequence-to-sequence networks. In various implementations, source code may be processed to generate one or more graphs representing the source code. One or more of the graphs may then be traversed to identify one or more sequences of tokens within the source code that satisfy an input constraint of a sequence-to-sequence network. The source code…
Identification and application of related source code edits
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12265804
Implementations are described herein for identifying related source code edits to perform, or to aid in the performance of, various programming tasks. In various implementations, a first edit made to a first source code snippet in a source code editor may be detected. Based on the first edit, a second source code edit to be made to a second source code snippet may be identified. The identifying may include: traversing one or more graphs to determine one or more edge sequences between…
People suggestion in collaborative online text editors
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12265784
Techniques are described herein for providing people suggestions in collaborative online text editors. A method includes: receiving user interface input that corresponds to a document in a document editing application; automatically parsing the received user interface input to identify a name included in the user interface input; in response to identifying the name included in the user interface input, providing an option to create a link in the document between the name and a…
Techniques for obtaining accurate diagonal electronic structure Hamiltonians
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12265760
Methods, systems and apparatus for simulating a physical system described by an electronic structure Hamiltonian expressed in an orthonormal basis. In one aspect, a method includes decomposing the electronic structure Hamiltonian into a sum of sub-Hamiltonians, wherein each sub-Hamiltonian in the sum of sub-Hamiltonians is expressed in one of multiple bases; simulating evolution of the physical system using the decomposed electronic structure Hamiltonian; and using the simulated…
Systems and methods for efficient multimodal input collection with mobile devices
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12265702
Systems and methods are provided for multimodal input collection. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to efficient and intuitive multimodal input collection for mobile devices. As an example, a mobile computing system (e.g., a smartphone, a tablet, a wearable device, etc.) can display a lock screen interface at a display device associated with the mobile computing system (e.g., an initial interface that requests interaction and/or authentication from the user before…
Facilitating ambient computing using a radar system
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12265666
Techniques and apparatuses are described that facilitate ambient computing using a radar system. Compared to other smart devices that rely on a physical user interface, a smart device with a radar system can support ambient computing by providing an eye-free interaction and less cognitively demanding gesture-based user interface. The radar system can be designed to address a variety of challenges associated with ambient computing, including power consumption, environmental variations,…
Subquery generation from a query
Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number:
12265560
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating subqueries from a query. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a query, generating a set of two subqueries from the query, where the set includes a first subquery and a second subquery, determining a quality score for the set of two subqueries, determining whether the quality score for the set of two subqueries satisfies a quality threshold, and in response to…
