Patents Assigned to Monkeymedia, Inc.
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Patent number: 11266919Abstract: Locomotion-based motion sickness has long been a complaint amongst virtual reality gamers and drone pilots. Traditional head-mounted display experiences require a handheld controller (e.g. thumb stick, touchpad, gamepad, keyboard, etc.) for locomotion. Teleportation compromises immersive presence and smooth navigation leads to sensory imbalances that can cause dizziness and nausea (even when using room-scale sensor systems). Designers have therefore had to choose between comfort and immersion. The invention is a hands-free, body-based navigation technology that puts the participant's body in direct control of movement through virtual space. Participants lean forward to advance in space; lean back to reverse; tip left or right to strafe/sidestep; and rotate to look around. In some embodiments, the more a participant leans, the faster they go.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2020Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: MONKEYMEDIA, INC.Inventors: Eric Justin Gould Bear, Rachel M. Strickland, Jim McKee
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Patent number: 10596478Abstract: In some embodiments, a head-mounted display apparatus with a visual display and one or more sensors may make navigation of virtual environments more natural. The invention enables a participant to pivot, tip and aim the apparatus to orient and move through virtual space hands-free.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2018Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: MONKEYmedia, Inc.Inventors: Eric Justin Gould Bear, Rachel M. Strickland, Jim McKee
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Patent number: 10051298Abstract: A wireless apparatus is described for receiving and playing stored continuous play content having a temporal flow. At least one segment of the continuous play content is associated with a link to promotional and/or other expansion content. The player is capable of playing at least one segment with temporal flow, determining whether a content expansion is desired, linking to and playing the expansion, if desired, or linking to and playing a continuing segment if the expansion is not desired. An additional link from the expansion to the continuing segment of the first segment is included such that the continuing segment is played after the expansion has been played.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2015Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: MONKEYmedia, Inc.Inventors: Eric J. Gould Bear, Rachel Morgan Strickland
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Patent number: 9919233Abstract: In some embodiments, extemporaneous control of remote objects can be made more natural using the invention, enabling a participant to pivot, tip and aim a head-mounted display apparatus to control a remote-controlled toy or full-sized vehicle, for example, hands-free. If the vehicle is outfitted with a camera, then the participant may see the remote location from first-person proprioceptive perspective.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2017Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: MONKEYmedia, Inc.Inventors: Eric Justin Gould Bear, Rachel M. Strickland, Jim McKee
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Patent number: 9791897Abstract: Departing from one-way linear cinema played on a single rectangular screen, this multi-channel virtual environment involves a cinematic paradigm that undoes habitual ways of framing things, employing architectural concepts in a polylinear video/sound construction to create a type of experience that allows the world to reveal itself and permits discovery on the part of participants. Techniques are disclosed for peripatetic navigation through virtual space with a handheld computing device, leveraging human spatial memory to form a proprioceptive sense of location, allowing a participant to easily navigate amongst a plurality of simultaneously playing videos and to center in front of individual video panes in said space, making it comfortable for a participant to rest in a fixed posture and orientation while selectively viewing any one of the video streams, and providing spatialized 3D audio cues that invite awareness of other content unfolding simultaneously in the virtual environment.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2015Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: MONKEYmedia, Inc.Inventors: Eric Justin Gould Bear, Rachel M. Strickland, Jim McKee
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Patent number: 9782684Abstract: In some embodiments, extemporaneous control of remote objects can be made more natural using the invention, enabling a participant to pivot, tip and aim a handheld display device to control a remote-controlled toy or full-sized vehicle, for example. If the vehicle is outfitted with a camera, then the participant may see the remote location from first-person proprioceptive perspective.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2017Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: MONKEYmedia, Inc.Inventors: Eric Justin Gould Bear, Rachel M. Strickland, Jim McKee
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Patent number: 9658617Abstract: In some embodiments, extemporaneous control of remote objects can be made more natural using the invention, enabling a participant to pivot, tip and aim a head-mounted display apparatus to control a remote-controlled toy or full-sized vehicle, for example, hands-free. If the vehicle is outfitted with a camera, then the participant may see the remote location from first-person proprioceptive perspective.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2017Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: MONKEYmedia, Inc.Inventors: Eric Justin Gould Bear, Rachel M. Strickland, Jim McKee
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Patent number: 9656168Abstract: In some embodiments, a head-mounted apparatus with a visual display and one or more sensors may make navigation of virtual environments more natural. The invention enables a participant to pivot, tip and aim the apparatus to orient and move through virtual space hands-free.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2017Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: MONKEYmedia, Inc.Inventors: Eric Justin Gould Bear, Rachel M. Strickland, Jim McKee
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Patent number: 9612627Abstract: In some embodiments, a head-mounted apparatus with a visual display and one or more sensors may make navigation of virtual environments more natural. The invention enables a participant to pivot, tip and aim the apparatus to orient and move through virtual space hands-free.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2016Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: MONKEYmedia, Inc.Inventors: Eric Justin Gould Bear, Rachel M. Strickland, Jim McKee
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Patent number: 9579586Abstract: In some embodiments, extemporaneous control of remote objects can be made more natural using the invention, enabling a participant to pivot, tip and aim a handheld display device to control a remote-controlled toy or full-sized vehicle, for example. If the vehicle is outfitted with a camera, then the participant may see the remote location from first-person proprioceptive perspective.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2016Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: MONKEYmedia, Inc.Inventors: Eric Justin Gould Bear, Rachel M. Strickland, Jim McKee
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Patent number: 9563202Abstract: In some embodiments, extemporaneous control of remote objects can be made more natural using the invention, enabling a participant to pivot, tip and aim a head-mounted display apparatus to control a remote-controlled toy or full-sized vehicle, for example, hands-free. If the vehicle is outfitted with a camera, then the participant may see the remote location from first-person proprioceptive perspective.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2016Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: MONKEYmedia, Inc.Inventors: Eric Justin Gould Bear, Rachel M. Strickland, Jim McKee
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Patent number: 9247226Abstract: One aspect of the invention is playing a stored content providing a plurality of segments which collectively contains the stored content, each segment has using first terminus and a second terminus with the content having a temporal flow from the first terminus to the second terminus. At least one segment is associated with a plurality of links to other segments. The system plays at least one segment with the temporal flow, determining whether a content expansion is desired prior to reaching the second terminus. If the content expansion is desired, then linking to and expansion segment and playing the expansion segment. If the content expansion is not desired, then linking to a continuing segment and playing the continuing segment. An additional link form the expansion segment to the continuing segment such that the continuing segment is played after the expansion segment has been played.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2012Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: MONKEYmedia, Inc.Inventors: Eric Justin Gould, Rachel M. Strickland
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Patent number: 9185379Abstract: A method is described for playing stored continuous play content having a temporal flow. At least one segment of the continuous play content is associated with a plurality of links to other segments. The method includes playing at least one segment with temporal flow, determining whether a content expansion is desired, linking to and playing the expansion, if desired, or linking to and playing a continuing segment if the expansion is not desired. The method includes an additional link from the expansion to the continuing segment of the first segment such that the continuing segment is played after the expansion segment has been played. Other teachings include methods for playing stored content, for capturing and playing content, for capturing segment and linkage descriptions, storage mechanisms referencing the continuous play content and linkages and apparatuses for capturing and playing such content.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2012Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: MONKEYmedia, Inc.Inventors: Eric Justin Gould, Rachel M. Strickland
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Patent number: 8392848Abstract: A relativity controller is a scroll bar/window combination that provides a way to see data in relation to both the context of its wholeness and the salience of its contents. To accomplish this, the linear density or other appearance of the scroll bar (acting as a ruler or scale) varies with the density of the document salience (as indicated by different kinds of annotations or marks). It also provides a way to zoom between perspectives. This is usable on many different data types: including sound, video, graphics, calendars and word processors.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2008Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: MONKEYmedia, Inc.Inventor: Eric Justin Gould
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Patent number: 8381126Abstract: A relativity controller is a scroll bar/window combination that provides a way to see data in relation to both the context of its wholeness and the salience of its contents. To accomplish this, the linear density or other appearance of the scroll bar (acting as a ruler or scale) varies with the density of the document salience (as indicated by different kinds of annotations or marks). It also provides a way to zoom between perspectives. This is usable on many different data types: including sound, video, graphics, calendars and word processors.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2001Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: MONKEYmedia, Inc.Inventor: Eric Justin Gould
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Patent number: 8370745Abstract: A relativity controller is a scroll bar/window combination that provides a way to see data in relation to both the context of its wholeness and the salience of its contents. To accomplish this, the linear density or other appearance of the scroll bar (acting as a ruler or scale) varies with the density of the document salience (as indicated by different kinds of annotations or marks). It also provides a way to zoom between perspectives. This is usable on many different data types: including sound, video, graphics, calendars and word processors.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2007Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: MONKEYmedia, Inc.Inventor: Eric Justin Gould
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Patent number: 8370746Abstract: A relativity controller is a scroll bar/window combination that provides a way to see data in relation to both the context of its wholeness and the salience of its contents. To accomplish this, the linear density or other appearance of the scroll bar (acting as a ruler or scale) varies with the density of the document salience (as indicated by different kinds of annotations or marks). It also provides a way to zoom between perspectives. This is usable on many different data types: including sound, video, graphics, calendars and word processors.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2007Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: MONKEYmedia, Inc.Inventor: Eric Justin Gould
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Patent number: 8122143Abstract: One aspect of the invention is a method for playing a stored content providing a plurality of segments which collectively contains the stored content, each segment has using first terminus and a second terminus with the content having a temporal flow from the first terminus to the second terminus. At least one segment is associated with a plurality of links to other segments. The method includes playing at least one segment with the temporal flow, determining whether a content expansion is desired prior to reaching the second terminus. If the content expansion is desired, then linking to an expansion segment and playing the expansion segment. If the content expansion is not desired, then linking to a continuing segment and playing the continuing segment. The method includes an additional link from the expansion segment to the continuing segment such that the continuing segment is played after the expansion segment has been played.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2010Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: MONKEYmedia, Inc.Inventors: Eric Justin Gould, Rachel M. Strickland
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Patent number: 7890648Abstract: One aspect of the invention is a method for playing a stored content providing a plurality of segments which collectively contains the stored content, each segment has using first terminus and a second terminus with the content having a temporal flow from the first terminus to the second terminus. At least one segment is associated with a plurality of links to other segments. The method includes playing at least one segment with the temporal flow, determining whether a content expansion is desired prior to reaching the second terminus. If the content expansion is desired, then linking to an expansion segment and playing the expansion segment. If the content expansion is not desired, then linking to a continuing segment and playing the continuing segment. The method includes an additional link from the expansion segment to the continuing segment such that the continuing segment is played after the expansion segment has been played.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2007Date of Patent: February 15, 2011Assignee: MONKEYmedia, Inc.Inventors: Eric Justin Gould, Rachel M. Strickland
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Patent number: 6745201Abstract: This invention includes a method of navigating a collection of nodes by selecting a first node, generating a context list and displaying first node and context list. Each context of the context collection includes a second node essentially referencing the first node. Another aspect of the invention includes a method of generating an address from a collection of contexts containing steps of receiving a selected attribute collection and generating the address. Each context includes a resolution address and an attribute collection. Each of the attribute collections contains at least one attribute. Whenever the attribute collection of a first context of the context collection is essentially the same as the selected attribute collection, the resolution address of the first context is selected as the generated address. Another aspect of the invention includes a method of navigating a hypergraph. The hypergraph includes at least one context list. Each context list contains at least one context.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2002Date of Patent: June 1, 2004Assignee: Monkeymedia, Inc.Inventors: Eric Justin Gould, Janna Buckmaster, Todd Wilkens, Paulus W. Trisnadi