Patents by Inventor Charlie W. Case, JR.
Charlie W. Case, JR. 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: 10356331Abstract: Examples are disclosed that relate to adapting image output from a camera based on output from an orientation sensor. One example provides a display device comprising a display, a movable mount, a camera having an optical field-of-view, an orientation sensor, and a controller. The controller may be configured to receive image output from the camera, generate, based on the image output, a first clipped field-of-view of the camera comprising a target, and in response to a change in an orientation of the camera identified by output from the orientation sensor, generate, based on the image output and the output from the orientation sensor, a second clipped field-of-view comprising the target, the first and second clipped field-of-views being subsets of the optical field-of-view.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2018Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventor: Charlie W. Case, Jr.
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Publication number: 20190075244Abstract: Examples are disclosed that relate to adapting image output from a camera based on output from an orientation sensor. One example provides a display device comprising a display, a movable mount, a camera having an optical field-of-view, an orientation sensor, and a controller. The controller may be configured to receive image output from the camera, generate, based on the image output, a first clipped field-of-view of the camera comprising a target, and in response to a change in an orientation of the camera identified by output from the orientation sensor, generate, based on the image output and the output from the orientation sensor, a second clipped field-of-view comprising the target, the first and second clipped field-of-views being subsets of the optical field-of-view.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2018Publication date: March 7, 2019Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: Charlie W. Case, JR.
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Patent number: 10116874Abstract: Examples are disclosed that relate to adapting image output from a camera based on output from an orientation sensor. One example provides a display device comprising a display, a movable mount, a camera having an optical field-of-view, an orientation sensor, and a controller. The controller may be configured to receive image output from the camera, generate, based on the image output, a first clipped field-of-view of the camera comprising a target, and in response to a change in an orientation of the camera identified by output from the orientation sensor, generate, based on the image output and the output from the orientation sensor, a second clipped field-of-view comprising the target, the first and second clipped field-of-views being subsets of the optical field-of-view.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2016Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventor: Charlie W. Case, Jr.
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Patent number: 9965051Abstract: Examples are disclosed for tracking a location of an input device. One example provides a display device including a logic machine and a storage machine, the storage machine storing instructions executable by the logic machine to generate, based on position sensor data received from a position sensor of an input device, an estimated location of the input device that is repeatedly updated as further position sensor data is received. The instructions are further executable to determine that the input device is in a home state associated with the display device, determine, with a sensing mechanism of the display device, a home-state location of the input device, reset the estimated location based on the home-state location, such that future updates to the estimated location are based on the reset estimated location, and control the display device based at least on the estimated location of the input device.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2016Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventor: Charlie W. Case, Jr.
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Publication number: 20180004311Abstract: Examples are disclosed for tracking a location of an input device. One example provides a display device including a logic machine and a storage machine, the storage machine storing instructions executable by the logic machine to generate, based on position sensor data received from a position sensor of an input device, an estimated location of the input device that is repeatedly updated as further position sensor data is received. The instructions are further executable to determine that the input device is in a home state associated with the display device, determine, with a sensing mechanism of the display device, a home-state location of the input device, reset the estimated location based on the home-state location, such that future updates to the estimated location are based on the reset estimated location, and control the display device based at least on the estimated location of the input device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2016Publication date: January 4, 2018Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: Charlie W. Case, JR.
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Publication number: 20180007280Abstract: Examples are disclosed that relate to adapting image output from a camera based on output from an orientation sensor. One example provides a display device comprising a display, a movable mount, a camera having an optical field-of-view, an orientation sensor, and a controller. The controller may be configured to receive image output from the camera, generate, based on the image output, a first clipped field-of-view of the camera comprising a target, and in response to a change in an orientation of the camera identified by output from the orientation sensor, generate, based on the image output and the output from the orientation sensor, a second clipped field-of-view comprising the target, the first and second clipped field-of-views being subsets of the optical field-of-view.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2016Publication date: January 4, 2018Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventor: Charlie W. Case, JR.
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Patent number: 8890802Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, an electronic device is provided with one or more position sensors, providing it with the ability to detect, and use as part of its user interface, a special orientation of a part of the device.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2008Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Charlie W. Case, Jr., James Okuley
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Publication number: 20090303208Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, an electronic device is provided with one or more position sensors, providing it with the ability to detect, and use as part of its user interface, a special orientation of a part of the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2008Publication date: December 10, 2009Inventors: Charlie W. Case, JR., James Okuley
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Publication number: 20090213081Abstract: A touchpad input controller receives user input relating to a display. The input controller includes a facing surface that faces a user when the controller is held in the user's hand or hands during use, and one or more non-facing surfaces that each faces away from the user when the controller is held the user's hand or hands during use. At least one non-facing surface includes a touchpad input area that is positioned to be accessed by at least one user finger for receiving user input. The facing surface including a display on which the results of user input received at the touchpad input area is displayed. The touchpad input area includes a mapping to a virtual keyboard layout for receiving keyboard-equivalent input from the user at the touchpad input area.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2008Publication date: August 27, 2009Inventor: Charlie W. Case, JR.