Patents by Inventor Peter R. Rogina
Peter R. Rogina 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: 11074756Abstract: A method of providing an image to be displayed includes providing captured scene data representing one or more images of a real scene and providing illumination data representing real illumination impinging on the real scene, providing a virtual reality image of a theoretical object by modeling said theoretical object using said illumination data to define illumination impinging on the theoretical object, and providing a combined image including elements of the real scene based on said captured scene data and including said virtual reality image.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2019Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: Worldscape, Inc.Inventor: Peter R. Rogina
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Patent number: 10984605Abstract: A method of providing an image to be displayed includes providing captured scene data representing one or more images of a real scene and providing illumination data representing real illumination impinging on the real scene, providing a virtual reality image of a theoretical object by modeling said theoretical object using said illumination data to define illumination impinging on the theoretical object, and providing a combined image including elements of the real scene based on said captured scene data and including said virtual reality image.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2020Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: Worldscape, Inc.Inventor: Peter R. Rogina
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Publication number: 20210027544Abstract: A method of providing an image to be displayed includes providing captured scene data representing one or more images of a real scene and providing illumination data representing real illumination impinging on the real scene, providing a virtual reality image of a theoretical object by modeling said theoretical object using said illumination data to define illumination impinging on the theoretical object, and providing a combined image including elements of the real scene based on said captured scene data and including said virtual reality image.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventor: Peter R. Rogina
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Patent number: 10467787Abstract: A method of providing an image to be displayed includes providing captured scene data representing one or more images of a real scene and providing illumination data representing real illumination impinging on the real scene, providing a virtual reality image of a theoretical object by modeling said theoretical object using said illumination data to define illumination impinging on the theoretical object, and providing a combined image including elements of the real scene based on said captured scene data and including said virtual reality image.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2017Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: Worldscape, Inc.Inventor: Peter R. Rogina
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Patent number: 9600937Abstract: A method of providing an image to be displayed includes providing captured scene data representing one or more images of a real scene and providing illumination data representing real illumination impinging on the real scene, providing a virtual reality image of a theoretical object by modeling said theoretical object using said illumination data to define illumination impinging on the theoretical object, and providing a combined image including elements of the real scene based on said captured scene data and including said virtual reality image.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2015Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: Worldscape, Inc.Inventor: Peter R. Rogina
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Patent number: 8970667Abstract: A method of providing an image to be displayed includes providing captured scene data representing one or more images of a real scene and providing illumination data representing real illumination impinging on the real scene, providing a virtual reality image of a theoretical object by modeling said theoretical object using said illumination data to define illumination impinging on the theoretical object, and providing a combined image including elements of the real scene based on said captured scene data and including said virtual reality image.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2014Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Worldscape, Inc.Inventor: Peter R. Rogina
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Patent number: 8687074Abstract: The present invention relates to camera arrangements with backlighting detection. The camera arrangements are capable of simultaneously capturing real scene data from various viewpoints. This data may include illumination data impinging the scene. The illumination data may then be utilized to alter the apparent illumination of a second image, either real or virtual, which is to be superimposed over the real scene so that the illumination across the entire superimposed scene is consistent. The camera arrangements may utilize combinations of umbilical cables and light tubes to expand or contract the field of capture. The camera arrangements may also include in-line signal processing of the data output.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2012Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: Worldscape, Inc.Inventor: Peter R. Rogina
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Publication number: 20130191647Abstract: A method is disclosed that allows secure access to medical data. A device application running on a wireless device, optionally including associated scanners, acquires a patient's biometric information (e.g., a finger-print at a resolution exceeding 250 ppi using the display as a proximity flash-camera). An encrypted representation of the biometric data is wirelessly transmitted to a secure data center. A server application at the remote data center decrypts the data and compares it to a database for positive identification purposes. Relevant pre-approved medical data for the identified patient is automatically retrieved from a secure database of patient information, encrypted and sent to the wireless device by the server application. The received data is decrypted by the device application and displayed by the wireless device for use by the medical practitioner. The patient may also maintain and update his/her medical record through this method and device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2013Publication date: July 25, 2013Inventors: Michael N. Ferrara, JR., Peter J. Begley, Jill Gora, Peter R. Rogina
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Patent number: 8310557Abstract: The present invention relates to camera arrangements with backlighting detection. The camera arrangements are capable of simultaneously capturing real scene data from various viewpoints. This data may include illumination data impinging the scene. The illumination data may then be utilized to alter the apparent illumination of a second image, either real or virtual, which is to be superimposed over the real scene so that the illumination across the entire superimposed scene is consistent. The camera arrangements may utilize combinations of umbilical cables and light tubes to expand or contract the field of capture. The camera arrangements may also include in-line signal processing of the data output.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2007Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Inventor: Peter R. Rogina
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Patent number: 6393144Abstract: In a telepresence system, a scene is captured by recording pixel data elements, each associated with a pixel ray vector having a direction and an intercept on an known locus in the frame of reference of the scene. Each pixel data element includes data representing the illumination along the pixel ray vector. For example, the pixel data elements may be captured by operating numerous video cameras pointing in different directions on a spherical locus. A virtual viewpoint image representing the image which would be seen from an arbitrary viewpoint, looking in an arbitrary direction, can be synthesized by determining the directions of synthetic pixel ray vectors from each pixel of the virtual viewpoint image through the virtual viewpoint and the intercepts of these vectors on the locus. Recorded pixel data elements having pixel ray vector directions and intercepts close to those of the synthetic pixel ray vector can be copied or interpolated to provide data representing illumination in the synthetic pixel.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2001Date of Patent: May 21, 2002Assignee: WorldScape, L.L.C.Inventors: Peter R. Rogina, Michael Ehrlich, David MacIntosh
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Publication number: 20020015522Abstract: In a telepresence system, a scene is captured by recording pixel data elements, each associated with a pixel ray vector having a direction and an intercept on an known locus in the frame of reference of the scene. Each pixel data element includes data representing the illumination along the pixel ray vector. For example, the pixel data elements may be captured by operating numerous video cameras pointing in different directions on a spherical locus. A virtual viewpoint image representing the image which would be seen from an arbitrary viewpoint, looking in an arbitrary direction, can be synthesized by determining the directions of synthetic pixel ray vectors from each pixel of the virtual viewpoint image through the virtual viewpoint and the intercepts of these vectors on the locus. Recorded pixel data elements having pixel ray vector directions and intercepts close to those of the synthetic pixel ray vector can be copied or interpolated to provide data representing illumination in the synthetic pixel.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2001Publication date: February 7, 2002Inventors: Peter R. Rogina, Michael Ehrlich, David Macintosh
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Patent number: 6327381Abstract: In a telepresence system, a scene is captured by recording pixel data elements, each associated with a pixel ray vector having a direction and an intercept on an known locus in the frame of reference of the scene. Each pixel data element includes data representing the illumination along the pixel ray vector. For example, the pixel data elements may be captured by operating numerous video cameras pointing in different directions on a spherical locus. A virtual viewpoint image representing the image which would be seen from an arbitrary viewpoint, looking in an arbitrary direction, can be synthesized by determining the directions of synthetic pixel ray vectors from each pixel of the virtual viewpoint image through the virtual viewpoint and the intercepts of these vectors on the locus. Recorded pixel data elements having pixel ray vector directions and intercepts close to those of the synthetic pixel ray vector can be copied or interpolated to provide data representing illumination in the synthetic pixel.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 1998Date of Patent: December 4, 2001Assignee: WorldScape, LLCInventors: Peter R. Rogina, Michael Ehrlich, David Macintosh
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Publication number: 20010043737Abstract: A system for generating images of a scene as the scene would be observed from an arbitrary location. A plurality of discrete images, typically video images, taken at different viewpoints, as, for example, by a plurality of cameras pointing outwardly on a curving locus are converted to an offset epipolar image. The offset epipolar image includes a plurality of linesets, each such lineset incorporating one scanning line from each of the discrete video images. Each line in the virtual image is reconstructed from a lineset of the epipolar image. The reconstruction may include interpolation between pixel data representing lines from adjacent discrete images and mapping of pixels from one or more lines representing one or more adjacent discrete images onto the pixel line of the virtual image. The nature of the mapping depends upon the viewpoint selected for the virtual image. The system can provide real time stereoscopic telepresence, i.e.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 1997Publication date: November 22, 2001Inventors: PETER R. ROGINA, DAVID MACINTOSH
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Patent number: 5703961Abstract: A system for generating images of a scene as the scene would be observed from an arbitrary location. A plurality of discrete images, typically video images, taken at different viewpoints, as, for example, by a plurality of cameras pointing outwardly on a curving locus are converted to an offset epipolar image. The offset epipolar image includes a plurality of linesets, each such lineset incorporating one scanning line from each of the discrete video images. Each line in the virtual image is reconstructed from a lineset of the epipolar image. The reconstruction may include interpolation between pixel data representing lines from adjacent discrete images and mapping of pixels from one or more lines representing one or more adjacent discrete images onto the pixel line of the virtual image. The nature of the mapping depends upon the viewpoint selected for the virtual image. The system can provide real time stereoscopic telepresence, i.e.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 1994Date of Patent: December 30, 1997Assignee: WorldScape L.L.C.Inventors: Peter R. Rogina, David Macintosh