Patents by Inventor Mark Ashley

Mark Ashley 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).

  • Publication number: 20240125483
    Abstract: A cooking exhaust hood system, that has an exhaust hood adapted to be located over at least one cooking appliance and an exhaust fan connected to the exhaust hood, with the exhaust fan having a controllable exhaust air flow volume. A camera monitors a surface of the at least one cooking appliance and provide an image signal representing a visual status of the at least one cooking appliance. An image processing controller is connected to an image database and is configured to receive the image signal and to compare the visual status of the at least one cooking appliance based on the image signal to stored images in the image database. The image processing controller then output a cooking appliance status signal. An exhaust fan controller is provided that is connected to the exhaust fan. The exhaust fan controller is configured to receive the cooking appliance status signal and adjusts the exhaust fan accordingly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Franke Technology and Trademark Ltd.
    Inventors: Mark Ashley, Alan Greer, Gregory Richards
  • Publication number: 20240054741
    Abstract: A cross reality system enables any of multiple devices to efficiently render shared location-based content. The cross reality system may include a cloud-based service that responds to requests from devices to localize with respect to a stored map. The service may return to the device information that localizes the device with respect to the stored map. In conjunction with localization information, the service may provide information about locations in the physical world proximate the device for which virtual content has been provided. Based on information received from the service, the device may render, or stop rendering, virtual content to each of multiple users based on the user's location and specified locations for the virtual content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Dean Caswell, Konrad Piascik, Leonid Zolotarev, Mark Ashley Rushton
  • Patent number: 11869158
    Abstract: A cross reality system enables any of multiple devices to efficiently render shared location-based content. The cross reality system may include a cloud-based service that responds to requests from devices to localize with respect to a stored map. The service may return to the device information that localizes the device with respect to the stored map. In conjunction with localization information, the service may provide information about locations in the physical world proximate the device for which virtual content has been provided. Based on information received from the service, the device may render, or stop rendering, virtual content to each of multiple users based on the user's location and specified locations for the virtual content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Dean Caswell, Konrad Piascik, Leonid Zolotarev, Mark Ashley Rushton
  • Publication number: 20230386154
    Abstract: Disclosed is an approach for managing and displaying virtual content in a mixed reality environment on a one-on-one basis independently by each application, each virtual content is rendered by its respective application into a bounded volume referred herein as a “Prism.” Each Prism may have characteristics and properties that allow a universe application to manage and display the Prism in the mixed reality environment such that the universe application may manage the placement and display of the virtual content in the mixed reality environment by managing the Prism itself.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: June TATE-GANS, Eric Norman YISKIS, Mark Ashley RUSHTON, David William HOVER, Praveen BABU J. D.
  • Patent number: 11830151
    Abstract: Disclosed is an approach for managing and displaying virtual content in a mixed reality environment on a one-on-one basis independently by each application, each virtual content is rendered by its respective application into a bounded volume referred herein as a “Prism.” Each Prism may have characteristics and properties that allow a universe application to manage and display the Prism in the mixed reality environment such that the universe application may manage the placement and display of the virtual content in the mixed reality environment by managing the Prism itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: June Tate-Gans, Eric Norman Yiskis, Mark Ashley Rushton, David William Hover, Praveen Babu J D
  • Patent number: 11797832
    Abstract: An Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) for computing a convolutional neural network (CNN) has a first input bus receiving an ordered stream of values from an array, each position in the array having one or more channels, and a plurality of kernel processing tiles receiving inputs through configurable multiplexors. The kernel processing tiles and buses are arranged and connected in a manner that the ASIC operates as a pipelined system delivering an output stream in synchronization with the input stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Gigantor Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Ashley Mathews
  • Publication number: 20230297820
    Abstract: An Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) for computing a convolutional neural network (CNN) has a first input bus receiving an ordered stream of values from an array, each position in the array having one or more channels, and a plurality of kernel processing tiles receiving inputs through configurable multiplexors. The kernel processing tiles and buses are arranged and connected in a manner that the ASIC operates as a pipelined system delivering an output stream in synchronization with the input stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: Gigantor Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Ashley Mathews
  • Patent number: 11748061
    Abstract: A mass multiplier implemented as an integrated circuit has a port receiving a stream of discrete values and circuitry multiplying each value as received by a plurality of weight values simultaneously. An output channel provides products of the mass multiplier as produced. The mass multiplier is applied to neural network nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: GIGANTOR TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventor: Mark Ashley Mathews
  • Patent number: 11669587
    Abstract: A system processing a stream of input data ordered row by row from a data array has a first integrated circuit (IC) adapted to apply an aperture function to the stream of input data, to produce an output data stream, and a second IC coupled to the first IC, the second IC adapted to manage context from row to row, retaining partial values as computed by the aperture function for each column along a row, and providing the partial values back to the aperture function for subsequent rows as needed to complete output values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Gigantor Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Ashley Mathews
  • Publication number: 20220292789
    Abstract: A cross reality system enables any of multiple devices to efficiently render shared location-based content. The cross reality system may include a cloud-based service that responds to requests from devices to localize with respect to a stored map. The service may return to the device information that localizes the device with respect to the stored map. In conjunction with localization information, the service may provide information about locations in the physical world proximate the device for which virtual content has been provided. Based on information received from the service, the device may render, or stop rendering, virtual content to each of multiple users based on the user's location and specified locations for the virtual content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Dean Caswell, Konrad Piascik, Leonid Zolotarev, Mark Ashley Rushton
  • Publication number: 20220277191
    Abstract: A system processing a stream of input data ordered row by row from a data array has a first integrated circuit (IC) adapted to apply an aperture function to the stream of input data, to produce an output data stream, and a second IC coupled to the first IC, the second IC adapted to manage context from row to row, retaining partial values as computed by the aperture function for each column along a row, and providing the partial values back to the aperture function for subsequent rows as needed to complete output values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Applicant: Gigantor Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Ashley Mathews
  • Patent number: 11386627
    Abstract: A cross reality system enables any of multiple devices to efficiently render shared location-based content. The cross reality system may include a cloud-based service that responds to requests from devices to localize with respect to a stored map. The service may return to the device information that localizes the device with respect to the stored map. In conjunction with localization information, the service may provide information about locations in the physical world proximate the device for which virtual content has been provided. Based on information received from the service, the device may render, or stop rendering, virtual content to each of multiple users based on the user's location and specified locations for the virtual content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Dean Caswell, Konrad Piascik, Leonid Zolotarev, Mark Ashley Rushton
  • Patent number: 11354571
    Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) implements an L by M by N three-dimensional aperture function throughout a P by R by C three-dimensional source array. The IC has an input port receiving an ordered stream of independent input values from the source array, an output port producing an ordered stream of independent output values, an array of n compositor circuits, where n=L×M×N, each compositor circuit implementing a sub-function of the aperture function, dedicated pathways between the compositor circuits, delay circuits on the IC receiving values on the dedicated pathways from individual ones of the compositor circuits and providing the delayed values at later times to other compositor circuits downstream, a finalization circuit, and a control circuit operating counters and producing control signals coupled to the compositors, the delay circuits, and the finalization circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Gigantor Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Ashley Mathews
  • Publication number: 20220138394
    Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) implements an L by M by N three-dimensional aperture function throughout a P by R by C three-dimensional source array. The IC has an input port receiving an ordered stream of independent input values from the source array, an output port producing an ordered stream of independent output values, an array of n compositor circuits, where n=L×M×N, each compositor circuit implementing a sub-function of the aperture function, dedicated pathways between the compositor circuits, delay circuits on the IC receiving values on the dedicated pathways from individual ones of the compositor circuits and providing the delayed values at later times to other compositor circuits downstream, a finalization circuit, and a control circuit operating counters and producing control signals coupled to the compositors, the delay circuits, and the finalization circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: Gigantor Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Ashley Mathews
  • Publication number: 20220121419
    Abstract: A mass multiplier implemented as an integrated circuit has a port receiving a stream of discrete values and circuitry multiplying each value as received by a plurality of weight values simultaneously. An output channel provides products of the mass multiplier as produced. The mass multiplier is applied to neural network nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: Gigantor Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Ashley Mathews
  • Patent number: 11256981
    Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) has an input port receiving a first ordered stream of input values, a first set of functional circuits implementing a first aperture function, a second set of functional circuits implementing a second aperture function, additional sets of functional circuits following the first and the second set of functional circuits, each additional set in order receiving the ordered stream of output values of preceding sets as an ordered stream of input values, producing a final ordered stream of output values, and an output port receiving a last ordered output stream from the sets of functional circuits and enabling the output stream to be transmitted off the IC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: GIGANTOR TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventor: Mark Ashley Mathews
  • Patent number: 11099854
    Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) implements an M by N aperture function over an R by C source array. The IC has an input port receiving an ordered stream of independent input values, an output port producing an output stream, a mass multiplier circuit multiplying inputs by weights, producing streams of products on pathways on the IC, an M by N array of compositor circuits on the IC, single dedicated pathways between compositors, delay circuits, a finalization circuit, and a control circuit operating counters and producing control signals. The compositors combine the values received from product pathways, further combine that result to an initial value or to a value from an adjacent compositor upstream, or to a value from a delay circuit. Upon a last downstream compositor producing a complete composition of values, that value is passed to the finalization circuit, which posts a result to the output port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Gigantor Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Mark Ashley Mathews
  • Publication number: 20210248831
    Abstract: Disclosed is an approach for managing and displaying virtual content in a mixed reality environment on a one-on-one basis independently by each application, each virtual content is rendered by its respective application into a bounded volume referred herein as a “Prism.” Each Prism may have characteristics and properties that allow a universe application to manage and display the Prism in the mixed reality environment such that the universe application may manage the placement and display of the virtual content in the mixed reality environment by managing the Prism itself.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: June TATE-GANS, Eric Norman YISKIS, Mark Ashley RUSHTON, David William HOVER, Praveen BABU J D
  • Patent number: 11085649
    Abstract: An exhaust hood includes a housing, which is open towards a bottom face to capture cooking by-products from a cooking appliance positioned below the exhaust hood. The housing has a first wall and a second wall opposite to the first wall. The second wall is at least partly inclined inwardly from the bottom face towards a top face of the housing and has an exhaust vent to extract cooking by-products captured by the housing. The exhaust hood has a fresh air fan and the first wall forms a first duct which has openings located in a row along a lower edge of the first wall adjacent to the bottom face and oriented inside the housing. A side wall extension extends from one side wall and forms a lateral skirt that defines a pass-through window having vertically and horizontally extending faces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Franke Technology and Trademark Ltd
    Inventors: Michael Sperka, Wolfgang Kunze, Ireneusz Czapp, Mark Ashley
  • Patent number: 11024086
    Abstract: Disclosed is an approach for managing and displaying virtual content in a mixed reality environment on a one-on-one basis independently by each application, each virtual content is rendered by its respective application into a bounded volume referred herein as a “Prism.” Each Prism may have characteristics and properties that allow a universe application to manage and display the Prism in the mixed reality environment such that the universe application may manage the placement and display of the virtual content in the mixed reality environment by managing the Prism itself.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: June Tate-Gans, Eric Norman Yiskis, Mark Ashley Rushton, David William Hover, Praveen Babu J D