Microsoft Patent Applications

COMPUTERIZED INFORMATION EXTRACTION FROM TABLES

Granted: March 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240095247
Computerized systems are provided for detecting one or more tables and performing information extraction and analysis on any given table. Information can be extracted from one or more cells or fields of a table and feature vectors representing individual cells, rows, and/or columns of the table can be derived and concatenated together. In this way, embodiments can use some or all of the “context” or values contained in various feature vectors representing some or all of a single…

DYNAMICALLY SWITCHING DISPLAY IN USE BASED ON TEMPERATURE

Granted: March 21, 2024
Application Number: 20240094788
A device comprising a display and a display controller. The display comprises a first display portion and a second display portion. The display controller is configured to assess a temperature condition of a surface of the first display portion; and responsive to the temperature condition, to initiate a switching of display content from one of the display portions to the other display portion.

Non-Disruptive Hibernating And Resuming Guest Environment Using Network Virtual Service Client

Granted: March 14, 2024
Application Number: 20240086215
Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for non-disruptively hibernating and resuming a guest environment using a network virtual service client. In examples, when a guest environment is hibernated, a network virtual service client provides an instruction to a virtual network interface card to set the device power state of the virtual network interface card to a low power state. The network virtual service client disables the communication channels used by the…

CALLING ON A MULTI-DISPLAY DEVICE

Granted: March 14, 2024
Application Number: 20240089365
Examples that relate to calling on a computing device are disclosed. One example provides a computing device, comprising, a first display a second display, a sensor system a logic subsystem and a storage subsystem comprising instructions executable by the logic subsystem to output, via one or both of the first display and the second display, a notification of an incoming phone call at the computing device, and based on output from the sensor system indicating a relative angle between the…

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATIC USER PROFILE SWITCHING

Granted: March 14, 2024
Application Number: 20240089332
Aspects of the present disclosure include systems and methods for profile switching by the computing device. In an example, a computing device may include a memory storing instructions and a processor communicatively coupled with the memory and configured to execute the instructions. The processor may receive a request to initiate a new instance of a website. The processor may also determine a domain name of the website in response to the request. The processor may also determine a first…

PIVOTABLE CONNECTOR

Granted: March 14, 2024
Application Number: 20240088598
A connector for an electronic device is disclosed. The connector includes a housing. The housing includes a leading surface. The leading surface forms a plug opening and a fulcrum spaced away from the plug opening. The connector includes an electronic plug extending through the plug opening away from the leading surface of the housing. The connector includes a pivot providing the electronic plug a range of angular adjustment relative to the leading surface of the housing. The connector…

PRIOR INFORMED POSE AND SCALE ESTIMATION

Granted: March 14, 2024
Application Number: 20240087155
A scale and pose estimation method for a camera system is disclosed. Camera data for a scene acquired by the camera system is received. A scale prior parameter characterizing scale of the camera system is received. A cost of a cost function is calculated for a similarity transformation. The cost of the cost function is influenced at least by the scale prior parameter. Based at least on the cost function being less than a threshold cost, an estimated scale and pose of the camera system is…

NEUROERGONOMIC API SERVICE FOR SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS

Granted: March 14, 2024
Application Number: 20240086761
The present concepts include a neuroergonomic service that processes multimodal physiological, digital, and/or environmental inputs from a user and predicts cognitive states of the user. Thus, the neuroergonomic service provides personalized feedback to the user about her current mental and physiological wellbeing to enable modulation of mood, stress, attention, and other cognitive measures for improved productivity and satisfaction. The neuroergonomic service utilizes machine learning…

SPARSE ENCODING AND DECODING AT MIXTURE-OF-EXPERTS LAYER

Granted: March 14, 2024
Application Number: 20240086719
A computing system including a plurality of processing devices configured to execute a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) layer. The processing devices are configured to execute the MoE layer at least in part by receiving an input tensor including input tokens. Executing the MoE layer further includes computing a gating function output vector based on the input tensor and computing a sparse encoding of the input tensor and the gating function output vector. The sparse encoding indicates one or…

SCALE OUT FILE SYSTEM USING REFS AND SCALE OUT VOLUME

Granted: March 14, 2024
Application Number: 20240086545
Some storage systems are configured with VDL (valid data length) type controls that are implemented on a per cluster basis and, in some instances, on a sub-cluster basis, rather than simply a per file basis. In some instances, per-cluster VDL metadata for the storage clusters is stored and referenced at the edge data volume nodes of a distributed network for the storage system rather than, and/or without, storing or synchronizing the per-cluster VDL metadata at a master node that manages…

SYSTEM AND METHOD OF RENDERING USER INTERFACE COMPONENTS BASED ON PRIORITY

Granted: March 14, 2024
Application Number: 20240086034
A system and method for rendering a plurality of user interface (UI) components of a UI screen based on a priority order is conducted by receiving a request to load the UI screen, each component of the UI screen being associated with a priority order, creating a data structure for rendering the UI components in accordance with the priority order, the data structure including a list of the UI components in an order in which they should be rendered, generating an event for rendering a…

INERTIAL SENSING OF TONGUE GESTURES

Granted: March 14, 2024
Application Number: 20240085985
This document relates to employing tongue gestures to control a computing device, and training machine learning models to detect tongue gestures. One example relates to a method or technique that can include receiving one or more motion signals from an inertial sensor. The method or technique can also include detecting a tongue gesture based at least on the one or more motion signals, and outputting the tongue gesture.

NEAR-EYE DISPLAY SYSTEMS UTILIZING AN ARRAY OF PROJECTORS

Granted: March 14, 2024
Application Number: 20240085714
The present disclosure describes near-eye display systems including an array of projectors and a one-dimensional exit pupil expander. The array of projectors can be arranged along a first dimension and can output image light towards an input coupler within a waveguide that provides one-dimensional exit pupil expansion. In some implementations, arrays of monochromatic projectors are implemented and arranged in offset columns. The input coupler in-couples the image light from the array of…

OPTICAL ARRAY PANEL TRANSLATION

Granted: March 14, 2024
Application Number: 20240085711
A head-wearable display device includes a display panel to emit display light. An optical array panel is positioned along an optical path of the display light emitted by the display panel, and configured to redirect the display light toward an eyebox. An eye tracking system estimates a current pupil position of a user eye relative to the head-wearable display device. An actuator translates a position of the optical array panel relative to the display panel to move a position of the…

SPONSORED ACCESS TO MULTI-ITEM DOCUMENT BUNDLES

Granted: March 7, 2024
Application Number: 20240078340
A data processing system implements detecting that a first user device associated with a first user has added a first sponsored content item to a host electronic document by adding a first reference to the first sponsored content item to the host electronic document. The first sponsored content item is stored separately in a memory of a cloud-based service from the host electronic document. The data processing system further implements determining that the first user has permission to…

RESOLUTION ENHANCEMENT IN SPATIAL-FREQUENCY SPACE

Granted: March 7, 2024
Application Number: 20240080580
A camera system comprises a lamp configured to emit light, a lamp driver configured to energize the lamp, an image-sensor array configured to acquire image data, a lenslet array, and an image engine. The lenslet array comprises a plurality of lenslets arranged laterally over the image-sensor array and configured to focus the light, reflected from a subject, onto the image-sensor array. The image engine is configured to (a) receive the image data from the image-sensor array, (b) resolve…

REDUCING LATENCY IN VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING

Granted: March 7, 2024
Application Number: 20240080485
Techniques and tools for reducing latency in video encoding and decoding by constraining latency due to reordering of video frames, and by indicating the constraint on frame reordering latency with one or more syntax elements that accompany encoded data for the video frames. For example, a real-time communication tool with a video encoder sets a syntax element that indicates a constraint on frame reordering latency, which is consistent with inter-frame dependencies between multiple…

SIGNALING OF STATE INFORMATION FOR A DECODED PICTURE BUFFER AND REFERENCE PICTURE LISTS

Granted: March 7, 2024
Application Number: 20240080475
Innovations for signaling state of a decoded picture buffer (“DPB”) and reference picture lists (“RPLs”). In example implementations, rather than rely on internal state of a decoder to manage and update DPB and RPLs, state information about the DPB and RPLs is explicitly signaled. This permits a decoder to determine which pictures are expected to be available for reference from the signaled state information. For example, an encoder determines state information that identifies…

FLEXIBLE REFERENCE PICTURE MANAGEMENT FOR VIDEO ENCODING AND DECODING

Granted: March 7, 2024
Application Number: 20240080470
Innovations in flexible reference picture management are described. For example, a video encoder and video decoder use a global reference picture set (“GRPS”) of reference pictures that remain in memory, and hence are available for use in video encoding/decoding, longer than conventional reference pictures. In particular, reference pictures of the GRPS remain available across random access boundaries. Or, as another example, a video encoder and video decoder clip a reference picture…

DYNAMICALLY COMPOSING AND MANAGING LONG FORM NOTES FROM SHORT FORM NOTE FRAGMENTS

Granted: March 7, 2024
Application Number: 20240078373
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to creating a long note from one or more short notes made in a source document. A long note is a separate document created by the system to capture each of the one or more short notes and related source content from the source document and compiles them in one place for independent review and modification. The long note captures the connection between the short note and the source document with source content such as the related text, images, or…