Patents by Inventor Robert Ellis

Robert Ellis 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: 11294819
    Abstract: Aspects of a storage device including a memory and a controller are provided which prevent retransmissions of set features commands with identical read voltage threshold offsets for the same die. When the controller receives a first read command for data stored in the memory, the controller identifies a first parameter to modify a first read threshold, and executes a first set features command for modifying the read threshold based on the first parameter. Subsequently, when the controller receives a second read command from the host device for data stored in the memory, the controller identifies a second parameter to modify a second read threshold, and determines whether the first and second parameters are the same. If the parameters are the same, the controller refrains from executing a second set features command for modifying the second read threshold. Thus, the read latency of the storage device may be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Robert Ellis, Kevin O'Toole, Jacob Schmier, Todd Lindberg, Atif Hussain, Venugopal Garuda
  • Patent number: 11257295
    Abstract: The present technology relates to artificial reality systems. Such systems provide projections a user can create to specify object interactions. For example, when a user wishes to interact with an object outside her immediate reach, she can use a projection to select, move, or otherwise interact with the distant object. The present technology also includes object selection techniques for identifying and disambiguating between objects, allowing a user to select objects both near and distant from the user. Yet further aspects of the present technology include techniques for interpreting various bimanual (two-handed) gestures for interacting with objects. The present technology further includes a model for differentiating between global and local modes for, e.g., providing different input modalities or interpretations of user gestures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Ravasz, Etienne Pinchon, Adam Tibor Varga, Jasper Stevens, Robert Ellis, Jonah Jones, Evgenii Krivoruchko
  • Publication number: 20220019382
    Abstract: Aspects of a storage device including a memory and a controller are provided which allow for detection of dropped commands based on a die status (ready/busy status) of a command received from a host device. The memory may include dies controlled by chip-enables (CE). After selecting a die using CE, the controller waits between a minimum and maximum time after receiving the command to query the die status, where the minimum time is the time by which the command is expected to begin execution and the maximum time is the shortest time by which the command is expected to complete execution. The controller queries the die status after waiting the time period. If the die status is ready when it should have read busy, the controller detects that the command associated with the data is dropped and requests the host device to reissue the command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Robert ELLIS, Kevin O'TOOLE, Jacob Schmier
  • Publication number: 20210406200
    Abstract: Aspects of a storage device including a memory and an encryption core are provided. The storage device may be configured for providing secure data storage, as well as one or more post-processing operations to be performed with the data. The encryption core, which may be configured to decrypt data, may control execution of one or more post-processing operations using the data. A read command received from a host device may include a tag associated with data identified by the read command. When encrypted data is retrieved from memory according to the read command, the encryption core may decrypt the encrypted data and provide the decrypted data for post-processing based on the tag. A corresponding post-processing operation may return a result when executed using the decrypted data. Rather than raw data identified by the read command, the result may be delivered to the host device in response to the read command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Robert Ellis, Brent Jacobs, Kevin O'Toole
  • Publication number: 20210406165
    Abstract: Aspects of a storage device including a master chip controller and a slave chip processor and memory including a plurality of memory locations are provided which allow for simplified processing of descriptors associated with host commands in the slave chip based on an adaptive context metadata message from the master chip. When the controller receives a host command, the controller in the master chip provides to the processor in the slave chip a descriptor associated with a host command, an instruction to store the descriptor in the one of the memory locations, and the adaptive context metadata message mapping a type of the descriptor to the one of the memory locations. The processor may then process the descriptor stored in the one of the memory locations based on the message, for example, by refraining from identifying certain information indicated in the descriptor. Reduced latency in command execution may thereby result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Todd Lindberg, Robert Ellis, Kevin O'Toole, Vivek Shivhare
  • Publication number: 20210406193
    Abstract: Aspects of a storage device including a memory and a controller are provided that allow for storage of tags identifying data types and sequence numbers with data to facilitate data recovery and system integrity checks following a power failure or other system failure event. The controller is configured during a write operation to include a tag in the data identifying the data type as a host write, a recycle write, or another internal write. Following a system failure event, the controller is configured to read the tags to identify the data type in the write. Based on the tags, the controller is configured to properly rebuild or update a logical-to-physical (L2P) table of the storage device to assign correct logical addresses to the most recent data during data recovery, as well as to verify correct logical addresses during system integrity checks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Mark J. Dancho, Robert Ellis, Kevin O'Toole
  • Publication number: 20210389878
    Abstract: Aspects of a storage device including a memory and a controller are provided which allow for reduction of latency and improve QoS for reads performed in memory locations such as multi-plane dies sharing a bus with the controller. When the controller receives a host read command, the controller sends a read sense command to a memory location to perform a read operation. The controller also sends a status polling command to the memory location to check die status. While the read operation is being performed, and while other read operations are being performed in other memory locations, the controller refrains from polling this memory location and the other memory locations for die status. Rather, the controller continuously toggles a read enable input to the memory location until the read operation is complete and the die status is ready, after which the controller receives data from the memory location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Todd Lindberg, Robert Ellis, Kevin O'Toole
  • Patent number: 11189099
    Abstract: The present technology relates to artificial reality systems. Such systems provide projections a user can create to specify object interactions. For example, when a user wishes to interact with an object outside her immediate reach, she can use a projection to select, move, or otherwise interact with the distant object. The present technology also includes object selection techniques for identifying and disambiguating between objects, allowing a user to select objects both near and distant from the user. Yet further aspects of the present technology include techniques for interpreting various bimanual (two-handed) gestures for interacting with objects. The present technology further includes a model for differentiating between global and local modes for, e.g., providing different input modalities or interpretations of user gestures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Ravasz, Etienne Pinchon, Adam Tibor Varga, Jasper Stevens, Robert Ellis, Jonah Jones, Evgenii Krivoruchko
  • Patent number: 11176745
    Abstract: The present technology relates to artificial reality systems. Such systems provide projections a user can create to specify object interactions. For example, when a user wishes to interact with an object outside her immediate reach, she can use a projection to select, move, or otherwise interact with the distant object. The present technology also includes object selection techniques for identifying and disambiguating between objects, allowing a user to select objects both near and distant from the user. Yet further aspects of the present technology include techniques for interpreting various bimanual (two-handed) gestures for interacting with objects. The present technology further includes a model for differentiating between global and local modes for, e.g., providing different input modalities or interpretations of user gestures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Ravasz, Etienne Pinchon, Adam Tibor Varga, Jasper Stevens, Robert Ellis, Jonah Jones, Evgenii Krivoruchko
  • Patent number: 11170576
    Abstract: A progressive display system can compute a virtual distance between a user and virtual objects. The virtual distance can be based on: a distance between the user and an object, a viewing angle of the object, and/or a footprint of the object in a field of view. The progressive display system can determine where the virtual distance falls in a sequence of distance ranges that correspond to levels of detail. Using a mapping between content sets for the object and levels of detail that correspond to distance ranges, the progressive display system can select content sets to display in relation to the object. As the user moves, the virtual distance will move across thresholds bounding the distance ranges. This causes the progressive display system to select and display other content sets for the distance range in which the current virtual distance falls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Ravasz, Etienne Pinchon, Adam Varga, Jasper Stevens, Robert Ellis, Jonah Jones
  • Publication number: 20210334028
    Abstract: Aspects of a storage device including a controller memory, a die memory, and a plurality of accumulators corresponding to individual DQs are provided for accelerated DQ training and error detection. A controller stores first data in the controller memory, transfers second data to the die memory over an n-bit bus, and receives n bits of the second data from the die memory based on a DQS. The controller then compares n bits of the first data with n bits of the second data to produce n bit results received into respective accumulators, and the controller simultaneously updates different accumulators in response to bit mismatches. During DQ training, if an accumulator value meets a mismatch threshold, the controller modifies a DQS-DQ timing accordingly. During error detection of a read scrambled page, if an accumulator value does not meet an entropy threshold, the controller identifies an error associated with the page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Robert Ellis, Atif Hussain, Venugopal Garuda, Kevin O'Toole, Todd Lindberg
  • Patent number: 11150841
    Abstract: Aspects of a storage device including a memory and a controller are provided which allow for detection of dropped commands based on a die status (ready/busy status) of a command received from a host device. The memory may include dies controlled by chip-enables (CE). After selecting a die using CE, the controller waits between a minimum and maximum time after receiving the command to query the die status, where the minimum time is the time by which the command is expected to begin execution and the maximum time is the shortest time by which the command is expected to complete execution. The controller queries the die status after waiting the time period. If the die status is ready when it should have read busy, the controller detects that the command associated with the data is dropped and requests the host device to reissue the command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Robert Ellis, Kevin O'Toole, Jacob Schmier
  • Publication number: 20210303474
    Abstract: Aspects of a storage device including a memory and a controller are provided which prevent retransmissions of set features commands with identical read voltage threshold offsets for the same die. When the controller receives a first read command for data stored in the memory, the controller identifies a first parameter to modify a first read threshold, and executes a first set features command for modifying the read threshold based on the first parameter. Subsequently, when the controller receives a second read command from the host device for data stored in the memory, the controller identifies a second parameter to modify a second read threshold, and determines whether the first and second parameters are the same. If the parameters are the same, the controller refrains from executing a second set features command for modifying the second read threshold. Thus, the read latency of the storage device may be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Robert Ellis, Kevin O'Toole, Jacob Schmier, Todd Lindberg, Atif Hussain, Venugopal Garuda
  • Patent number: 11130839
    Abstract: The invention is generally directed to sports bottles and other articles produced by blow molding from polymeric materials containing isosorbide having glass transition temperatures ranging from 90° C. to 130° C., as well as to processes for producing them. These articles can be exposed to water at high temperatures and can be produced by using a suitable combination of a stretch ratio of less than 3× and a preform temperature at least 20° C. greater than the glass transition temperature (Tg) of the polymeric material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Eastman Chemical Company
    Inventors: Robert Ellis McCrary, Kaan Gunes
  • Publication number: 20210247931
    Abstract: Aspects of a storage device including a memory and a controller are provided which allow for detection of dropped commands based on a die status (ready/busy status) of a command received from a host device. The memory may include dies controlled by chip-enables (CE). After selecting a die using CE, the controller waits between a minimum and maximum time after receiving the command to query the die status, where the minimum time is the time by which the command is expected to begin execution and the maximum time is the shortest time by which the command is expected to complete execution. The controller queries the die status after waiting the time period. If the die status is ready when it should have read busy, the controller detects that the command associated with the data is dropped and requests the host device to reissue the command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Robert Ellis, Kevin O'Toole, Jacob Schmier
  • Patent number: 11086475
    Abstract: An artificial reality system is described that renders, presents, and controls user interface elements within an artificial reality environment, and performs actions in response to one or more detected gestures of the user. The artificial reality system includes an image capture device configured to capture image data representative of a physical environment, a head-mounted display (HMD) configured to output artificial reality content, a gesture detector configured to identify, from the image data, a gesture comprising a configuration of a hand that is substantially stationary for at least a threshold period of time and positioned such that a thumb of the hand and at least one other finger form approximately a circle or approximately a circular segment, a user interface (UI) engine to generate a UI element in response to the identified gesture, and a rendering engine to render the UI element as an overlay to the artificial reality content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Ravasz, Jasper Stevens, Adam Tibor Varga, Etienne Pinchon, Simon Charles Tickner, Jennifer Lynn Spurlock, Kyle Eric Sorge-Toomey, Robert Ellis, Barrett Fox
  • Patent number: 11086392
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include communicatively coupling a user interface device to a virtual reality device, capturing inputs from a user on the user interface device, displaying, on the virtual reality device, a virtual representation of the captured inputs from the user, and mirroring, on the virtual reality device, content presented on the user interface device. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Sebastian Sztuk, Omar John Pualuan, Jeffrey Witthuhn, Nabeel Farooq Butt, Jonathan Ravasz, Simon Tickner, Robert Ellis, Kayvon Asemani
  • Patent number: 11086406
    Abstract: A hand interaction system can use a three-state model to differentiate between normal hand movements, such as reaching for an object, and hand input gestures. The three-state model can specify a sequence of states including: 1) a neutral state, 2) a tracking state, and 3) an active state. In the neutral state, the hand interaction system monitors for a gesture signaling a transition to the tracking state but does not otherwise interpret a gesture corresponding to the active state as input. Once a gesture causes a transition to the intermediate tracking state, the hand interaction system can recognize a further active state transition gesture, allowing active state interaction. Thus, the monitoring for the intermediate tracking state provides a gating mechanism, making it less likely that the hand interaction system will interpret hand movements as input when not so intended by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Ravasz, Etienne Pinchon, Adam Varga, Jasper Stevens, Robert Ellis, Jonah Jones
  • Patent number: 11081737
    Abstract: An electrochemical cell including a getter material, a battery including the electrochemical cell, and methods of forming the electrochemical cell and battery are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Viking Power Systems Pte, Ltd.
    Inventors: Craig Downie, Robert Ellis Doe, David Eaglesham
  • Publication number: 20210218080
    Abstract: An electrochemical cell including a getter material, a battery including the electrochemical cell, and methods of forming the electrochemical cell and battery are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Craig Downie, Robert Ellis Doe, David Eaglesham