Apple Smart Home Artificial Intelligence Insights from Patents

Apple Smart Home Artificial Intelligence Insights from Patents
by Alex G. Lee on 05-15-2016 at 8:00 pm

US 20160132030 illustrate a smart home system for automating operation of the smart home devices (e.g., thermostats, lighting devices, household appliances, etc.) based on aggregation of individual user routines.

User mobile devices and smart home devices can incorporate pattern detection logic to identify patterns in … Read More


Hyundai Artificial Intelligence Connected Car Insights from Patents

Hyundai Artificial Intelligence Connected Car Insights from Patents
by Alex G. Lee on 04-10-2016 at 4:00 pm

Hyundai announced its plan to develop smart car implementing artificial intelligence (AI) and V2X (vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I)) communication capability. US9159231 illustrates that Hyundai smart car will collect and transmit neighboring traffic information through the V2V communication.… Read More


IoT + Big Data + Cloud + AI Integration Insights from Patents

IoT + Big Data + Cloud + AI Integration Insights from Patents
by Alex G. Lee on 04-04-2016 at 12:00 pm

IoT Big Data Aggregation
US20140297826 illustrates a system for big data aggregation in a sensor network. The most important part of the Internet of Things (IoT) big data analytics is collecting data before storing the data. The Hadoop big data platform supports collecting data in Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). HDFS … Read More


Google v. IBM v. Microsoft Artificial Intelligence Strategy Insights from Patents

Google v. IBM v. Microsoft Artificial Intelligence Strategy Insights from Patents
by Alex G. Lee on 04-01-2016 at 7:00 am

Patents can provide insights regarding the state of the art of artificial Intelligence (AI) technology innovation, and thus, a strategic move of a company for the AI innovation leadership. To compare the technology innovation strategy of the three leading companies in the AI business, Google, IBM and Microsoft, patent information… Read More


Automotive Artificial Intelligence (AI) Insights from Patents

Automotive Artificial Intelligence (AI) Insights from Patents
by Alex G. Lee on 03-29-2016 at 7:00 am

US9254824 illustrates an adaptive anti-collision system for providing timely alert information by analyzing the driving pattern of the driver using a neural network. A neural network utilizes massive connected artificial neurons to mimic the capability of a biological neural network so as to acquire information from external… Read More


Internet of Things Augmented Reality Applications Insights from Patents

Internet of Things Augmented Reality Applications Insights from Patents
by Alex G. Lee on 03-19-2016 at 9:00 am

US20150347850 illustrates an IoT (Internet of Things) AR (Augmented Reality) application in a smart home. A smart home IoT device communicates via a local network to a user AR device (e.g., smartphone) for providing the tracking data. The tracking data describes the smart home IoT device. The AR devices can recognize the smart… Read More


Healthcare Predictive Analytics Insights from Patents

Healthcare Predictive Analytics Insights from Patents
by Alex G. Lee on 03-02-2016 at 7:00 am

Predictive analytics analyzes current and historical data to make predictions about future events and trends. The predictions are based on the predictive models that are generated from a machine learning technique that recognizes pattern in the current and historical data.

US20140275807 illustrates the predictive analytics… Read More


Emerging Smartphone Display Insights from Patents

Emerging Smartphone Display Insights from Patents
by Alex G. Lee on 02-20-2016 at 7:00 am

US201403549 illustrates a display that includes the multifunctional pixels. Each multifunctional pixel can include several display areas as well sensors. Combining visual display technology with sensors provides the touchscreen operation by use of a finger, stylus or other object positioned on or near the visual display,… Read More


Automotive Augmented Reality Applications Insights from Patents

Automotive Augmented Reality Applications Insights from Patents
by Alex G. Lee on 02-15-2016 at 12:00 pm

US20150202962 illustrates a system for controlling vehicle features via an augmented reality vehicle user interface. The system includes an image capturing device for capturing an image of the vehicle. The system identifies the points of interest that correspond to the vehicle features within portions of the image of the vehicle… Read More


Sleep Monitoring and Aiding Devices Insight from Patents

Sleep Monitoring and Aiding Devices Insight from Patents
by Alex G. Lee on 02-08-2016 at 12:00 pm

US9192326 illustrates a sleep monitoring system that can be embodied within a wearable device or in a mobile device. The system includes an accelerometer to monitor a user’s movements. The system determines when the user is falling asleep into a sleep session based on the user’s movements. The system also identifies… Read More