Microsoft Patent Grants

Orientation-based frame selection for composite image creation

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12266085
A method for creating a composite image provides for determining, based on orientation sensor data sampled in association with each frame in an image sequence, camera orientation information indicating an orientation of the camera at a time that the frame was captured. Based at least in part on the orientation sensor data, a subset of orientationally-similar frames from the sequence fare identified and combined together to create the composite image.

Lawful interception triggered task status

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12267685
Lawful interception (LI) of electronic communications includes receiving, by a triggering function (TF), a task request including a task identifier (ID) from a LI provisioning function (LIFP). The TF receives an indication of a protocol data unit (PDU) session establishment applicable to the received request, and then triggers (including a POI task ID) each point of interception (POI) applicable to the request. The TF receives a task response indicating a status of the task at the…

Systems and methods for dark current compensation in single photon avalanche diode imagery

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12267606
A system for dark current compensation in SPAD imagery is configurable to capture an image frame with the SPAD array and generate a temporally filtered image by performing a temporal filtering operation using the image frame and at least one preceding image frame. The at least one preceding image frame is captured by the SPAD array at a timepoint that temporally precedes a timepoint associated with the image frame. The system is also configurable to obtain a dark current image frame. The…

Cloud-based management service device registration using intermediate cloud storage

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12267432
Techniques are described herein that are capable of registering a user device with a cloud-based management service using an intermediate cloud storage. For instance, the intermediate cloud storage may store an encrypted data blob including information that identifies the user device. The intermediate cloud storage or a registration system may decrypt the encrypted data blob so that the registration system may use the decrypted data blob to register the user device with the cloud-based…

Abstracting geographic location to a square block of pre-defined size

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12267399
A client-side system detects a current location of a client device and a cloud interaction metric. The geographic area around the location of the client device is divided into grid sections. The client-side system identifies a pre-defined reference location corresponding to the grid section that the client device location resides in. The pre-defined reference location, corresponding to that grid section, and the cloud interaction metric are provided to a remote server computing system.

Session border controller for message manipulation

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12267371
A session border controller has a processor operable to receive a message from a connected peer node. The processor inputs the message to a Message Manipulation Function, MMF, which identifies the message as a SIP message, and in response obtains external state data associated with the message from a source independent from the message. The external state data is provided to the MMF. The SIP message is modified using the MMF according to one or more conditions or rules associated with…

Method and system for writing voxels to a transparent substrate

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12266391
A method of writing voxels to a substrate using a laser writing system comprises forming a first voxel at a first position in a substrate using a first laser pulse; detecting light emitted or scattered by the substrate as a result of forming the first voxel; determining whether the detected light satisfies a predetermined constraint; and, when the detected light does not satisfy the predetermined constraint, adjusting an amplitude of a second laser pulse. Light emission or scattering…

Forgery detection of face image

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12266211
In implementations of the subject matter as described herein, there is provided a method for forgery detection of a face image. Subsequent to inputting a face image, it is detected whether a blending boundary due to the blend of different images exists in the face image, and then a corresponding grayscale image is generated based on a result of the detection, where the generated grayscale image can reveal whether the input face image is formed by blending different images. If a visible…

Combining visual and audio insights to detect opening scenes in multimedia files

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12266175
Disclosed is a method for automatically detecting an introduction/opening song within a multimedia file. The method includes designating sequential blocks of time in the multimedia file as scene(s) and detecting certain feature(s) associated with each scene. The extracted scene feature(s) may be analyzed and used to assign a probability to each scene that the scene is part of the introduction/opening song. The probabilities may be used to classify each scene as either correlating to or…

Accurate video event inference using 3D information

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12266172
Techniques for inferring whether an event is occurring in 3D space based on 2D image data and for maintaining a camera's calibration are disclosed. An image of an environment is accessed. Input is received, where the input includes a 2D rule imposed against a ground plane. The 2D rule includes conditions indicative of an event. A bounding box is generated and encompasses a detected object. A point within the bounding box is projected from a 2D-space image plane of the image into 3D space…

Game performance prediction from real-world performance data

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12263410
In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods, and devices for matching device configurations to games are presented. A set of device configuration tiers may be generated from gameplay telemetry data generated by a plurality of client devices executing a plurality of games. A device configuration for a specific client device may be determined based at least on the specific client device's GUI type. When the specific client device accesses a software game library a…

Computer-implemented video conference application that is configured to transition between 2D and 3D views

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12266048
Technologies for transitioning between two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) display views for video conferencing are described herein. Video conferencing applications can have multiple display views for a user participating in a video conference. In certain situations a user may want to transition from a 2D display view of the video conference to a more immersive 3D display view. These transitions can be visually jarring and create an uncomfortable user experience. The…

Techniques for abstract image generation from multimodal inputs with content appropriateness considerations

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12266034
A data processing system implements a receiving a textual input comprising a query for a first image. The data processing system also implements analyzing the textual input to determine a predicted color palette associated with a subject matter of the query; and procedurally generating the first image using the predicted color palette. Another implementation of the data processing system implements providing the textual input to a first machine learning model to obtain the first image,…

Language-agnostic computer program repair engine generator

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12265789
Techniques are described herein that are capable of creating a language-agnostic computer program repair engine generator. A context-free grammar is annotated to identify token(s) that are likely to be included in or excluded from a computer program in a manner that violates the context-free grammar. A language-agnostic computer program repair engine generator is created that is configured to generate a parser. The repair engine generator is configured to create a repair engine that:…

Selective security augmentation in source control environments

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12265635
A method enhances authentication requirements to documents of a document repository based, at least in part, on a security policy associated with a branch under which the documents are organized. The method implements an approval service that is identified in a branch policy. The approval service determines whether a user is authorized to modify documents included in the branch. The method further selectively requires multiple authentications from multiple authentication systems in order…

Detect anomalous container deployment at a container orchestration service

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12265616
A computing system is configured to detect a request for a deployment of a container at a container orchestration service. One or more datasets associated with the deployment of the container are collected, and a plurality of features associated with the deployment are extracted based on the one or more datasets. A probability score is then generated based on the plurality of features, using a machine-learning model trained on datasets associated with historical deployments of containers…

Control system for controlling management and tagging of digital cards stored in decentralized content storage

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12265579
A reference to a digital item is stored as a digital card. The digital card can also be contained in, and/or refer to, other digital cards. The digital card can also include properties or attributes that may be added from the digital item that is being referred to. The digital card can be tagged with a tag that may also be applied to other digital cards. The digital card can be stored in a data pod within a de-centralized data storage system architecture so the tag is surfaced along with…

Confidential blockchain database with a distributed ledger

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12265522
The disclosed technology is generally directed to a distributed query-and-command system. In one example of the technology, in a trusted execution environment (TEE) of a first node, database code of the first node and distributed ledger code of the first node is executed, such that execution of the distributed ledger code of the first node instantiates a first instance of a distributed ledger of a consortium blockchain, and such that execution of the query-and-command code of the first…

Optimizing hardware replacement using performance analytics

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12265460
A solution is disclosed for computer hardware replacement using performance analytics that selects replacement computer hardware based on actual user needs and enterprise priorities. Key performance data is collected and compared with various baselines, thereby identifying hardware that is performing below acceptable levels. Enterprise data and collected data are received from an instrumented operating system on a computing device. The collected data includes boot performance,…

Computerized demanufacturing system

Granted: April 1, 2025
Patent Number: 12263547
A method for automated device disassembly includes, at a computerized demanufacturing system, receiving a target electronic device for disassembly. Using a set of one or more sensors of the computerized demanufacturing system, a set of sensor data is collected that quantifies one or more physical properties of the target electronic device. Based at least in part on the set of sensor data, correspondences are identified between one or more effectors of the computerized demanufacturing…