Patents by Inventor Andrew Law
Andrew Law has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11994685Abstract: A head-mounted display system includes a positioning and stabilising structure structured and arranged to hold a display unit in an operational position over a user's face in use and an interfacing structure for the display unit constructed and arranged to be in opposing relation with the user's face. The interfacing structure comprises a substantially continuous face engaging surface adapted to contact the user's face around a periphery of the user's eyes. The interfacing structure comprises silicone. The interfacing structure is configured and arranged such that force applied to the user's face is distributed around the periphery thereof. The interfacing structure comprises a first compliance at a first region and a second compliance at a second region, wherein the first region and the second region are configured around the periphery of the interfacing structure to allow selective distribution of the force onto the user's face.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2023Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: ResMed Pty LtdInventors: Ian Andrew Law, Aaron Samuel Davidson, Stewart Joseph Wagner
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Publication number: 20240111163Abstract: A head-mounted display system includes a head-mounted display unit a display that, in use, is held in an operational position over a user's face. The head-mounted display system further comprises a flow generator configured to generate a flow of air, and an air guide arrangement coupled to the flow generator to enable the flow generator to direct air to, or draw air from, one or more selected areas in proximity of the head-mounted display system.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Ian Andrew LAW, Aaron Samuel DAVIDSON, Stewart Joseph WAGNER, David James BRAUND
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Patent number: 11948416Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for communicating between devices using short-range communication links. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to systems and methods for communicating access-right data between devices for verification or transfer.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.Inventors: Benson Truong, Daniel Lewis, Michael Estes, Andrew Pratt, Justin Burleigh, Danon Law
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Publication number: 20240103282Abstract: A head-mounted display system includes a head-mounted display system, comprising a head-mounted display unit, comprising various pad options at various positions on the head including saddle shaped nose pads that deform under a reaction force applied to the apex of the nose to improve load distribution, forehead pads with an associated mounting structure and inserts that affect compliance and/or size, temporal pads configured to lie against the temporal bone which support some of the weight of the head mounted display system and, further stabilizing pads which are located on a rigid portion of the temporal arms and designed to extend along temporal regions of the users head.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Ian Andrew LAW, Aaron Samuel DAVIDSON, Stewart Joseph WAGNER, David James BRAUND
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Publication number: 20240098219Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a spatialized display of chat messages within a messaging platform. In an example method, a computing device displays a spatial chat user interface (UI) including a virtual background and one or more spatialized avatars overlaid on the virtual background. The computing device receives chat messages sent by a participant and displays, adjacent to the spatialized avatar representing the participant, chat bubbles having a first appearance. The computing device displays chat bubbles for other participants having a second appearance. The computing device receives one or more additional chat messages sent by the participant. The computing device displays additional chat bubbles corresponding to the additional chat messages having a third appearance and updates the appearance of the initial chat bubbles to a fourth appearance.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.Inventors: Oded Gal, Andrew Law, Sally Lu, Ping Luo, Sharvari Nerurkar, Archil Vardidze, Zheng Yuan
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Publication number: 20240094741Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for automated following behind a lead vehicle. The lead vehicle navigates a path from a starting point to a destination. The lead vehicle and the following vehicle are connected via V2V communication, allowing one or more following vehicles to detect the path taken by the lead vehicle. A computerized control system on the following vehicle (a Follow-the-Leader, or FTL, system) allows the following vehicle to mimic the behavior of the lead vehicle, with the FTL system controlling steering to guide the following vehicle along the path previously navigated by the lead vehicle. In some embodiments, the lead vehicle and following vehicle may both use Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) position coordinates. In some embodiments, the following vehicle may also have a system of sensors to maintain a gap between the following and lead vehicles.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: Peloton Technology, Inc.Inventors: Shad Laws, Joshua Switkes, Art Gavrysh, Marc Tange, Mark Herbert, Colleen Twitty, Dean Hogle, Andrew Tamoney, Eric Monsler, Carlos Rosario, Oliver Bayley, Richard Pallo, Louis Donayre, Laurenz Laubinger, Brian Smartt, Joyce Tam, Brian Silverman, Tabitha Jarvis, Murad Bharwani, Steven Erlein, Austin Schuh, Mark Luckevich
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Patent number: 11922515Abstract: Platform-agnostic digital assistant methods and apparatuses are provided. The apparatuses and methods include a processor configured by a memory to receive user data from a storage containing informational contents. The processor is configured to establish a communication channel with an entity and utilize the communication channel to receive first information related to a user. The processor is configured to extract at least one user datum from the first information and modify the informational contents of the storage based on at least one of the user datum and the first information. The processor is further configured to initiate an action related to the user based on at least one of the first information, the user datum, and the informational contents.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2023Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Peppercorn AI Technology LimitedInventors: Nigel Lombard, Paul Cassidy, Atul Thakor, Robert Rushton, Ian Law, Christopher Hill, Jonathan Byford, Jonathan Wilshire, Andrew Snuggs
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Publication number: 20240032857Abstract: A method includes receiving data associated with a sleep session of a user. The method also includes determining that the user is experiencing or has experienced an event based at least in part on the data. The method also includes causing pressurized air to be directed from a respiratory device to a multi-compartment bladder in response to determining that the user is experiencing or has experienced the event to aid in modifying a position of a head of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Inventors: Michael Pinczuk, Kieran Grennan, Ian Andrew Law
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Patent number: 11874473Abstract: A head-mounted display system includes a head-mounted display unit and a positioning and stabilising structure structured and arranged to hold the head-mounted display unit in an operational position over a user's face in use. The positioning and stabilising structure includes a rear support structure adapted to contact posterior regions of a user's head and a forehead support connector, which includes a forehead support strap, which extends generally along and in the direction of the sagittal plane and connects the rear support structure to a superior edge region of the head-mounted display unit. The forehead support connector further includes a forehead support rigidiser that provides rigidification to a portion of the forehead support connector.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2023Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: ResMed Pty LtdInventor: Ian Andrew Law
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Patent number: 11871151Abstract: Methods and systems provide for a spatialized display of chat messages within a messaging platform. First, the system displays, for each of a number of participants within a messaging session, a spatial chat user interface (hereinafter “UI”) consisting of: a virtual background; and one or more spatialized avatars representing the participants. The system receives initial chat messages sent by a participant from the plurality of participants, then displays, adjacent to each of a subset of the spatialized avatars, one or more initial chat bubbles corresponding to messages sent by one or more of the participants represented by the subset of the spatialized avatars. Concurrently or subsequently, the system displays one or more other participant chat bubbles. The system receives additional chat messages sent by the participant, and then displays the additional chat bubbles, repositioning the initial chat bubbles while the additional chat bubbles are displayed in their place.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.Inventors: Oded Gal, Andrew Law, Sally Lu, Ping Luo, Sharvari Nerurkar, Archil Vardidze, Zheng Yuan
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Patent number: 11819335Abstract: A method includes receiving data associated with a sleep session of a user. The method also includes determining that the user is experiencing or has experienced an event based at least in part on the data. The method also includes causing pressurized air to be directed from a respiratory device to a multi-compartment bladder in response to determining that the user is experiencing or has experienced the event to aid in modifying a position of a head of the user.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2020Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: ResMed Sensor Technologies LimitedInventors: Michael Pinczuk, Kieran Grennan, Ian Andrew Law
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Publication number: 20230353397Abstract: Methods and systems provide for a spatial chat view dashboard within a messaging platform. A system displays, at a client device, a dashboard user interface for a messaging platform, consisting of at least a dashboard virtual background and one or more spatial chat rooms. Each of the spatial chat rooms is a spatial representation of a chat session associated with a number of participants. The system receives, from the client device, a selection of a spatial chat room from the one or more spatial chat rooms. The system then displays a spatial chat user interface comprising the selected spatial chat room.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: Oded Gal, Andrew Law, Sally Lu, Ping Luo, Sharvari Nerurkar, Archil Vardidze, Zheng Yuan
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Publication number: 20230310781Abstract: A method includes receiving data associated with a user during a sleep session. The received data is analyzed to determine, for a selected timeframe during the sleep session, whether the user is breathing through nostrils of the user. Based at least in part on a result of the analysis, a mask recommendation is communicated.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2021Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Jose Ricardo Dos Santos, Redmond Shouldice, Ian Andrew Law
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Publication number: 20230251495Abstract: A head-mounted display system includes a positioning and stabilising structure structured and arranged to hold a display unit in an operational position over a user's face in use and an interfacing structure for the display unit constructed and arranged to be in opposing relation with the user's face. The interfacing structure comprises a substantially continuous face engaging surface adapted to contact the user's face around a periphery of the user's eyes. The interfacing structure comprises silicone. The interfacing structure is configured and arranged such that force applied to the user's face is distributed around the periphery thereof. The interfacing structure comprises a first compliance at a first region and a second compliance at a second region, wherein the first region and the second region are configured around the periphery of the interfacing structure to allow selective distribution of the force onto the user's face.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2023Publication date: August 10, 2023Inventors: Ian Andrew LAW, Aaron Samuel DAVIDSON, Stewart Joseph WAGNER
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Patent number: 11706042Abstract: Methods and systems provide for a spatial chat view dashboard within a messaging platform. A system displays, at a client device, a dashboard user interface for a messaging platform, consisting of at least a dashboard virtual background and one or more spatial chat rooms. Each of the spatial chat rooms is a spatial representation of a chat session associated with a number of participants. The system receives, from the client device, a selection of a spatial chat room from the one or more spatial chat rooms. The system then displays a spatial chat user interface comprising the selected spatial chat room.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.Inventors: Oded Gal, Andrew Law, Sally Lu, Ping Luo, Sharvari Nerurkar, Archil Vardidze, Zheng Yuan
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Patent number: 11686948Abstract: A head-mounted display system includes a positioning and stabilising structure structured and arranged to hold a display unit in an operational position over a user's face in use and an interfacing structure for the display unit constructed and arranged to be in opposing relation with the user's face. The interfacing structure comprises a substantially continuous face engaging surface adapted to contact the user's face around a periphery of the user's eyes. The interfacing structure comprises silicone. The interfacing structure is configured and arranged such that force applied to the user's face is distributed around the periphery thereof. The interfacing structure comprises a first compliance at a first region and a second compliance at a second region, wherein the first region and the second region are configured around the periphery of the interfacing structure to allow selective distribution of the force onto the user's face.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: ResMed Pty LtdInventors: Ian Andrew Law, Aaron Samuel Davidson, Stewart Joseph Wagner
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Publication number: 20230161166Abstract: A head-mounted display system includes a head-mounted display unit and a positioning and stabilising structure structured and arranged to hold the head-mounted display unit in an operational position over a user's face in use. The positioning and stabilising structure includes a rear support structure adapted to contact posterior regions of a user's head and a forehead support connector, which includes a forehead support strap, which extends generally along and in the direction of the sagittal plane and connects the rear support structure to a superior edge region of the head-mounted display unit. The forehead support connector further includes a forehead support rigidiser that provides rigidification to a portion of the forehead support connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2023Publication date: May 25, 2023Inventor: Ian Andrew LAW
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Publication number: 20230157400Abstract: A head-mounted display system includes a head-mounted display unit and a positioning and stabilising structure structured and arranged to hold the head-mounted display unit in an operational position over a user's face in use. The positioning and stabilising structure includes a rear support structure adapted to contact posterior regions of a user's head and at least one connector structured and arranged to interconnect the rear support structure to the head-mounted display unit. The rear support structure is in the form of a hoop comprising an occipital portion configured and arranged engage the user's head along a portion of the occipital bone adjacent a junction where the neck muscles attach to the occipital bone in use.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2020Publication date: May 25, 2023Inventor: Ian Andrew LAW
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Publication number: 20230152594Abstract: A head-mounted display system includes a head-mounted display unit having a display, a battery pack for powering the head-mounted display system, and a positioning and stabilising structure configured to hold the head-mounted display unit anterior to a user's eyes such that the display is viewable by the user in use and configured to hold the battery pack posterior to the user's head in use. In an embodiment, the positioning and stabilizing structure includes a posterior support portion configured to engage a posterior portion of a user's head, the posterior support portion having a parietal strap portion configured to overlie the parietal bones of the user's head in use and an occipital strap portion configured to overlie or lie below an occipital bone of the user's head in use.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2021Publication date: May 18, 2023Inventors: Aaron Samuel DAVIDSON, Ian Andrew LAW, David James BRAUND, Stewart Joseph WAGNER
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Publication number: 20230082461Abstract: Methods and systems provide dynamic background selection in a chat interface. First, the system receives metadata about a chat session comprising a number of participants. The system then determines a virtual background based on one or more background selection criteria and at least a subset of the metadata about the chat session. Finally, the system displays, for each of the participants in the chat session, a spatial chat user interface including the determined virtual background, with the one or more spatialized avatars overlaid on the virtual background and positioned spatially within it.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2021Publication date: March 16, 2023Inventors: Oded Gal, Andrew Law, Sally Lu, Ping Luo, Sharvari Nerurkar, Archil Vardidze, Eric Yuan