Patents by Inventor Mitchell Heinrich
Mitchell Heinrich 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: 10393942Abstract: A color shifting illuminator includes a first luminescent material that absorbs first incident photons having an energy greater than or equal to a first threshold energy, and emits first photons with less energy than the first incident photons. The color shifting illuminator also includes a second luminescent material that absorbs second incident photons having an energy greater than or equal to a second threshold energy, and emits second photons with less energy than the second incident photons and less energy than the first photons. The first luminescent material and the second luminescent material are included in a waveguide, and the waveguide exhibits total internal reflection for the first photons and the second photons satisfying conditions for total internal reflection. An extraction region is coupled to the waveguide to emit the first photons and the second photons.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2018Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: X Development LLCInventors: Mitchell Heinrich, Martin F. Schubert, Michael J. Grundmann, William R. Regan
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Patent number: 10369693Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obtaining a three-dimensional (3D) model of an operating volume for a cable-suspended robotic system, where the operating volume is defined, at least in part, by a plurality of cable support structures. Identifying a cable positioned device suspended from a plurality of cables and an object that obstructs a path of the cable positioned device within the operating volume within the 3D model. Locating the cable positioned device relative to the object using the 3D model. Controlling one or more cable motors to navigate the cable positioned device within the operating volume.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2016Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: X Development LLCInventors: Gabriella Levine, Mitchell Heinrich
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Publication number: 20190025495Abstract: A color shifting illuminator includes a first luminescent material that absorbs first incident photons having an energy greater than or equal to a first threshold energy, and emits first photons with less energy than the first incident photons. The color shifting illuminator also includes a second luminescent material that absorbs second incident photons having an energy greater than or equal to a second threshold energy, and emits second photons with less energy than the second incident photons and less energy than the first photons. The first luminescent material and the second luminescent material are included in a waveguide, and the waveguide exhibits total internal reflection for the first photons and the second photons satisfying conditions for total internal reflection. An extraction region is coupled to the waveguide to emit the first photons and the second photons.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2018Publication date: January 24, 2019Inventors: Mitchell Heinrich, Martin F. Schubert, Michael J. Grundmann, William R. Regan
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Patent number: 10114165Abstract: A color shifting illuminator includes a first luminescent material that absorbs first incident photons having an energy greater than or equal to a first threshold energy, and emits first photons with less energy than the first incident photons. The color shifting illuminator also includes a second luminescent material that absorbs second incident photons having an energy greater than or equal to a second threshold energy, and emits second photons with less energy than the second incident photons and less energy than the first photons. The first luminescent material and the second luminescent material are included in a waveguide, and the waveguide exhibits total internal reflection for the first photons and the second photons satisfying conditions for total internal reflection. An extraction region is coupled to the waveguide to emit the first photons and the second photons.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2016Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: X Development LLCInventors: Mitchell Heinrich, Martin F. Schubert, Michael J. Grundmann, William R. Regan
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Publication number: 20180282937Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to pre-treating textiles and methods of preparing textiles in a pre-treated state. Specifically, the present disclosure relates to pre-treating textiles comprising recombinant protein fibers.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2018Publication date: October 4, 2018Inventors: Jamie McAusland Bainbridge, Lindsay Wray, Mitchell Heinrich, Joshua Kittleson, David N. Breslauer
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Patent number: 9900676Abstract: Exemplary wearable computing systems may include a head-mounted display that is configured to provide indirect bone-conduction audio. For example, an exemplary head-mounted display may include at least one vibration transducer that is configured to vibrate at least a portion of the head-mounted display based on the audio signal. The vibration transducer is configured such that when the head-mounted display is worn, the vibration transducer vibrates the head-mounted display without directly vibrating a wearer. However, the head-mounted display structure vibrationally couples to a bone structure of the wearer, such that vibrations from the vibration transducer may be indirectly transferred to the wearer's bone structure.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2016Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Jianchun Dong, Liang-Yu Tom Chi, Mitchell Heinrich, Leng Ooi
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Patent number: 9609412Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and apparatuses for the transmission of audio information from a bone-conduction headset to a user. The bone-conduction headset may be mounted on a glasses-style support structure. The bone-conduction transducer may be mounted near where the glasses-style support structure approach a wearer's ears. In one embodiment, an apparatus has a bone-conduction transducer with a diaphragm configured to vibrate based on a magnetic field. The magnetic field being based off an applied electric field. The apparatus may also have an anvil coupled to the diaphragm. The anvil may be configured to conduct the vibration from the bone-conduction transducer. Additionally, the anvil may be coupled to a metallic component. The metallic component may be configured to couple to a magnetic field created by the bone-conduction transducer.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2016Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Jianchun Dong, Mitchell Heinrich, John Stuart Fitch, Matthew Martin, Eliot Kim
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Patent number: 9462365Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and apparatuses for the transmission of audio information from a bone-conduction headset to a user. The bone-conduction headset may be mounted on a glasses-style support structure. The bone-conduction transducer may be mounted near where the glasses-style support structure approach a wearer's ears. In one embodiment, an apparatus has a bone-conduction transducer with a diaphragm configured to vibrate based on a magnetic field. The magnetic field being based off an applied electric field. The apparatus may also have an anvil coupled to the diaphragm. The anvil may be configured to conduct the vibration from the bone-conduction transducer. Additionally, the anvil may be anvil may include at least one passage configured to enable the anvil to be physically coupled to the diaphragm. Thus, the anvil may be coupled to the diaphragm after the anvil is positioned on the diaphragm.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2012Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Jianchun Dong, Mitchell Heinrich, John Stuart Fitch, Matthew Martin, Eliot Kim
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Patent number: 9419451Abstract: A method and apparatus for protecting against certain energy sources used to charge a battery is disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2012Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Fenix International Inc.Inventors: Michael Lin, Mitchell Heinrich, Jonas Ketterle, Brian Warshawsky, Paul Jehlen, Jonathan Thomas, John Pelochino, Akbar Dhanaliwala, Brian Krieger
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Publication number: 20160192048Abstract: Exemplary wearable computing systems may include a head-mounted display that is configured to provide indirect bone-conduction audio. For example, an exemplary head-mounted display may include at least one vibration transducer that is configured to vibrate at least a portion of the head-mounted display based on the audio signal. The vibration transducer is configured such that when the head-mounted display is worn, the vibration transducer vibrates the head-mounted display without directly vibrating a wearer. However, the head-mounted display structure vibrationally couples to a bone structure of the wearer, such that vibrations from the vibration transducer may be indirectly transferred to the wearer's bone structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2016Publication date: June 30, 2016Inventors: Jianchun Dong, Liang-Yu Tom Chi, Mitchell Heinrich, Leng Ooi
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Publication number: 20160150312Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and apparatuses for the transmission of audio information from a bone-conduction headset to a user. The bone-conduction headset may be mounted on a glasses-style support structure. The bone-conduction transducer may be mounted near where the glasses-style support structure approach a wearer's ears. In one embodiment, an apparatus has a bone-conduction transducer with a diaphragm configured to vibrate based on a magnetic field. The magnetic field being based off an applied electric field. The apparatus may also have an anvil coupled to the diaphragm. The anvil may be configured to conduct the vibration from the bone-conduction transducer. Additionally, the anvil may be coupled to a metallic component. The metallic component may be configured to couple to a magnetic field created by the bone-conduction transducer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2016Publication date: May 26, 2016Inventors: Jianchun Dong, Mitchell Heinrich, John Stuart Fitch, Matthew Martin, Eliot Kim
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Patent number: 9288591Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and apparatuses for the transmission of audio information from a bone-conduction headset to a user. The bone-conduction headset may be mounted on a glasses-style support structure. The bone-conduction transducer may be mounted near where the glasses-style support structure approach a wearer's ears. In one embodiment, an apparatus has a bone-conduction transducer with a diaphragm configured to vibrate based on a magnetic field. The magnetic field being based off an applied electric field. The apparatus may also have an anvil coupled to the diaphragm. The anvil may be configured to conduct the vibration from the bone-conduction transducer. Additionally, the anvil may be coupled to a metallic component. The metallic component may be configured to couple to a magnetic field created by the bone-conduction transducer.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2012Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Jianchun Dong, Mitchell Heinrich, John Stuart Fitch, Matthew Martin, Eliot Kim
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Patent number: 9031273Abstract: Apparatuses that provide a bone-conduction speaker arranged to be located behind the ear are described herein. An exemplary apparatus may include: (a) a glasses-style support structure comprising a front section and at least one side section; (b) at least one bone-conduction speaker; and (c) a member having a proximate end and a distal end, wherein the proximate end is attached to the at least one side section, and wherein the at least one bone-conduction speaker is attached to the member at or near the distal end; wherein the member is arranged on the at least one side section such that when the glasses-style support structure is worn the member: (a) extends to the anterior of the at least one side section and (b) locates the bone-conduction speaker posterior to an ear.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2013Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Jianchun Dong, Mitchell Heinrich, Leng Ooi
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Patent number: 9024843Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and devices for interfacing with a wearable heads-up display via a touch-operable input device. The wearable heads-up display may include a display element for receiving and displaying display information received from a processor, and may also include a wearable frame structure supporting the display element and having a side-arm extending away from the display element. In some embodiments, the display information may appear at least partially curved to a user. In some embodiments, only a portion of the display information is shown on the at least one display element. The side-arm may be configured to secure the heads-up display to a user's body in a manner such that the display element is disposed within a field of view of the user.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2011Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Mitchell Heinrich, Gabriel Taubman, Ryan Geiss, Max Braun, Casey Ho
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Patent number: 9002020Abstract: Systems and methods for a bone-conduction transducer array configured to provide spatial audio are described, in which the bone-conduction transducer array may be coupled to a head-mountable device so as to provide sound, for example, to a wearer of the head-mountable device. Audio information and a vibration transducer from an array of vibration transducers coupled to the head-mountable computing device may be caused to vibrate based at least in part on the audio signal so as to transmit a sound. Information indicating a movement of the wearable computing device toward a given direction may be received. One or more parameters associated with causing the at least one vibration transducer to emulate the sound from the given direction may then be determined, wherein the one or more parameters are representative of a correlation between the audio information and the information indicating the movement.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2012Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Eliot Kim, Mitchell Heinrich, Jianchun Dong
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Publication number: 20150009309Abstract: Optical glasses, as well as other eyewear, are provided with a frame that has a camera button located on a part of the glasses frame most preferably centered just above one of the lenses.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2011Publication date: January 8, 2015Applicant: GOOGLE INC.Inventors: Mitchell Heinrich, Liang-Yu (Tom) Chi
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Publication number: 20140064536Abstract: A thin film bone-conduction transducer for a head-mountable device is provided. In one example, the head-mountable device may include a head-mountable display that is configured to provide bone-conduction audio using one or more bone-conduction transducers. The head-mountable display may include at least one thin film piezoelectric vibration transducer that is configured to vibrate at least a portion of the head-mountable display based on the audio signal. The vibration transducer may be at least partially enclosed in, fully enclosed between, or a portion of an outer surface of the frame of the head-mountable display such that when the head-mountable display is worn, the head-mountable display contacts one or more surfaces of the wearer's head and provides information indicative of the audio signal to the wearer via vibration of a bone structure of the wearer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2012Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicant: GOOGLE INC.Inventors: Eliot Kim, Jianchun Dong, Mitchell Heinrich
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Publication number: 20140016800Abstract: Apparatuses that provide a bone-conduction speaker arranged to be located behind the ear are described herein. An exemplary apparatus may include: (a) a glasses-style support structure comprising a front section and at least one side section; (b) at least one bone-conduction speaker; and (c) a member having a proximate end and a distal end, wherein the proximate end is attached to the at least one side section, and wherein the at least one bone-conduction speaker is attached to the member at or near the distal end; wherein the member is arranged on the at least one side section such that when the glasses-style support structure is worn the member: (a) extends to the anterior of the at least one side section and (b) locates the bone-conduction speaker posterior to an ear.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2013Publication date: January 16, 2014Applicant: Google Inc.Inventors: Jianchun Dong, Mitchell Heinrich, Leng Ooi
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Patent number: 8581550Abstract: A method and apparatus for identifying different types of energy sources used to charge a battery by receiving energy from at least one of the different types of energy sources at input terminals, identifying the type of energy source, and selecting a mode for charging the battery based on the type of energy source identified. A method and apparatus for protecting against certain energy sources used to charge a battery is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2010Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Fenix International, Inc.Inventors: Michael Lin, Mitchell Heinrich, Jonas Ketterle, Brian Warshawsky, Paul Jehlen, Jonathan Thomas, John Pelochino, Akbar Dhanaliwala, Brian Krieger
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Patent number: 8553910Abstract: Apparatuses that provide a bone-conduction speaker arranged to be located behind the ear are described herein. An exemplary apparatus may include: (a) a glasses-style support structure comprising a front section and at least one side section; (b) at least one bone-conduction speaker; and (c) a member having a proximate end and a distal end, wherein the proximate end is attached to the at least one side section, and wherein the at least one bone-conduction speaker is attached to the member at or near the distal end; wherein the member is arranged on the at least one side section such that when the glasses-style support structure is worn the member: (a) extends to the anterior of the at least one side section and (b) locates the bone-conduction speaker posterior to an ear.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2011Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Inventors: Jianchun Dong, Mitchell Heinrich, Leng Ooi