Patents by Inventor Roderick Perkins

Roderick Perkins 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: 11250264
    Abstract: An application executing on a mobile device generates a geo-positional query including a time stamp representing the time of the query. The application can be, for example, an augmented reality application, a pointing search application, or a mapping application that searches based on geolocation and/or physical proximity. The query can include, in addition to a location, one or more of a direction, orientation, and camera field of view of the mobile device. A system processes the query to return a time-based state of an object and/or location addressed by the mobile device at the time of the query. The system can use the time stamp to identify which objects may have been located at a certain location at a certain time and/or to identify the state of located objects at a certain time. For example, the state of an electronic billboard can identify an advertisement displayed at the time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Inventors: Roderick Perkins, Peter Ellenby, Thomas William Ellenby, Matthew Wong
  • Patent number: 10902035
    Abstract: Systems and methods for the accessing of information that may be associated with static or dynamic geo-located objects, which objects may or may not have corresponding real world counterparts, utilize attributes including of one or more angles of directional access associated with the geo-located objects. Information available to a user of a mobile device can be varied depending upon an angle of directional access derived from the mobile device's real world position and pointing direction in relation to the real world position and orientation of the geo-located objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Inventors: Thomas William Ellenby, Peter Ellenby, Roderick Perkins, Matthew Wong
  • Publication number: 20190042845
    Abstract: An application executing on a mobile device generates a geo-positional query including a time stamp representing the time of the query. The application can be, for example, an augmented reality application, a pointing search application, or a mapping application that searches based on geolocation and/or physical proximity. The query can include, in addition to a location, one or more of a direction, orientation, and camera field of view of the mobile device. A system processes the query to return a time-based state of an object and/or location addressed by the mobile device at the time of the query. The system can use the time stamp to identify which objects may have been located at a certain location at a certain time and/or to identify the state of located objects at a certain time. For example, the state of an electronic billboard can identify an advertisement displayed at the time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Roderick Perkins, Peter Ellenby, Thomas William Ellenby, Matthew Wong
  • Publication number: 20180365266
    Abstract: Systems and methods for the accessing of information that may be associated with static or dynamic geo-located objects, which objects may or may not have corresponding real world counterparts, utilize attributes including of one or more angles of directional access associated with the geo-located objects. Information available to a user of a mobile device can be varied depending upon an angle of directional access derived from the mobile device's real world position and pointing direction in relation to the real world position and orientation of the geo-located objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Thomas William Ellenby, Peter Ellenby, Roderick Perkins, Matthew Wong
  • Patent number: 10037343
    Abstract: Systems and methods for the accessing of information that may be associated with static or dynamic geo-located objects, which objects may or may not have corresponding real world counterparts, utilize attributes including of one or more angles of directional access associated with the geo-located objects. Information available to a user of a mobile device can be varied depending upon an angle of directional access derived from the mobile device's real world position and pointing direction in relation to the real world position and orientation of the geo-located objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Inventors: Thomas William Ellenby, Peter Ellenby, Roderick Perkins, Matthew Wong
  • Publication number: 20180038706
    Abstract: A computer system and associated methods performed by the computer system creates routes, optionally including differing types of transit, based on one or more of a traveler's allotted time to arrive at a destination, the traveler's reason or purpose for a trip and the traveler's selected interests or environmental factors that may affect or alter the traveler's journey. Using user preferences and pre-set thresholds related to specific types of points of interest or geolocated object a route from a start location to a desired destination is created to achieve a desired arrival time while optionally including various proposed combinations of additional stops and/or a transit types.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2017
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: Peter Malcolm Ellenby, Thomas William Ellenby, Roderick Perkins, Matthew Wong, John Ellenby
  • Patent number: 6005561
    Abstract: An information delivery system including a head end broadcasting a data stream of media objects, the head end being coupled to a broadcast television interface and at least one information service provider and including an encoder for encoding information in the media object is disclosed. The system may deliver and implement a programming guide delineating programming information available on the information delivery system in one or more media objects in the data stream in an encoded fashion by the encoder. A user terminal is coupled to the head-end and receives the media objects. The user terminal has an output and includes a decoder for the media objects. Also provided in one aspect is a user interface, at least partially stored in the user-terminal, which selects a user-defined subset of media objects for provision to the output of the user terminal. Further, an information navigation system for an information delivery system is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1999
    Assignee: The 3DO Company
    Inventors: William Hawkins, Roderick Perkins, William Duvall