Patents by Inventor Evan Paul Gander

Evan Paul Gander 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).

  • Patent number: 10860842
    Abstract: A system includes at least two base stations that emit light beams to illuminate an area for positional tracking objects in the area. A base station emits at least two light beams that rotate around a rotation axis at a rotational speed unique to the base station. Responsive to being illuminated by the light beams emitted by the at least two base stations, an object being tracked generates illumination data. The system determines which illumination data corresponds to one of multiple base stations by analyzing the illumination data over time. The system analyzes the illumination data corresponding to one base station to determine an orientation and/or position of the object relative to that base station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: David Maurice Moore, Evan Paul Gander, Jason Victor Tsai, Zhaoming Zhu, Richard Andrew Newcombe, Renzo De Nardi, Nicholas Daniel Trail
  • Patent number: 10859702
    Abstract: Systems described herein use outside-in positional tracking. A base station emits one or more rotational light beams to illuminate a local area. The rotational light beams rotate around a rotation axis and are used for positional tracking one or more objects in the local area. The one or more rotational light beams retroreflect from the one or more objects in the local area. The one or more objects include retroreflectors that retroreflect light beams incident on them. The base station detects the retroreflected light beams. The base station generates illumination data in response to the detected light beams. A system analyzes the illumination to determine an orientation and/or a location of an object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: David Maurice Moore, Evan Paul Gander, Jason Victor Tsai, Zhaoming Zhu, Richard Andrew Newcombe, Renzo De Nardi, Nicholas Daniel Trail
  • Patent number: 10746854
    Abstract: Systems described herein use outside-in positional tracking. A base station emits one or more rotational light beams to illuminate a local area. The rotational light beams rotate around a rotation axis and are used for positional tracking of one or more objects in the local area. A beam waist of a source light beam for generating the rotational light beams is positioned to be within a distance range from a center of rotation of the rotational light beams. An apparent frequency of the particular rotational light beam can be constant or substantially constant throughout a local area. Because the apparent frequency of the particular rotational light beam is constant or substantially constant throughout the local area, the frequency response of a detector in response to the illumination by the rotational light beam is within a limited range of values irrespective of the detector's location within the local area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: David Maurice Moore, Evan Paul Gander, Jason Victor Tsai, Zhaoming Zhu, Richard Andrew Newcombe, Renzo De Nardi, Nicholas Daniel Trail
  • Patent number: 10481699
    Abstract: A system includes a wearable device including sensors arranged at different locations on the wearable device. Each sensor measures electrical signals transmitted from a wrist or arm of a user. A position computation circuit is coupled to the sensors. The position computation circuit computes, using information derived from the electrical signals with a machine learning model, an output that describes a hand position of a hand of the wrist or arm of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Beipeng Mu, Renzo De Nardi, Richard Andrew Newcombe, Raymond King, Evan Paul Gander, Robert Y. Wang
  • Publication number: 20190033974
    Abstract: A system includes a wearable device including sensors arranged at different locations on the wearable device. Each sensor measures electrical signals transmitted from a wrist or arm of a user. A position computation circuit is coupled to the sensors. The position computation circuit computes, using information derived from the electrical signals with a machine learning model, an output that describes a hand position of a hand of the wrist or arm of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Beipeng Mu, Renzo De Nardi, Richard Andrew Newcombe, Raymond King, Evan Paul Gander, Robert Y. Wang