Patents by Inventor Tom Bushman
Tom Bushman 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: 11736801Abstract: A system includes a camera for capturing a first panorama view. The system determines a first bearing of a person within the first panorama view, and a first gaze direction of the person within the first panorama view. The system receives, from an external source, a second panorama view, a second bearing of the person within the second panorama view, and a second gaze direction of the person within the second panorama view. The system selects, by comparing the first gaze direction and the second gaze direction, a selected panorama view and a selected bearing of the person. The system forms a localized subscene video signal based on the selected panorama view along the selected bearing of the person. The system generates a stage view signal based on the localized subscene video signal, and composites a composited signal comprising the stage view signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: OWL LABS INC.Inventors: Tom Bushman, Ilya Moskovko, Howard Brown
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Patent number: 11729342Abstract: A system or method for imaging a panorama view may include a physical writing surface, a camera capturing the panorama view, and a sensor identifying a bearing of interest within the view. The system may maintain a coordinate map of the view, adjust an aspect ratio of the view, and generate a scaled panorama view based on the adjusted aspect ratio. The system may determine a coordinate of a designated view based on coordinate instructions and may generate a designated view signal based on the determined coordinate of the designated view comprising at least a portion of the physical writing surface. The system may composite a video signal including one or more of the scaled panorama view signal, a stage view signal, or the designated view signal, and may transmit the composite video signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: OWL LABS INC.Inventors: Joao Renato Kavamoto Fayad, Tom Bushman, Ilya Moskovko, Howard Brown
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Publication number: 20220070371Abstract: A system includes a camera for capturing a first panorama view. The system determines a first bearing of a person within the first panorama view, and a first gaze direction of the person within the first panorama view. The system receives, from an external source, a second panorama view, a second bearing of the person within the second panorama view, and a second gaze direction of the person within the second panorama view. The system selects, by comparing the first gaze direction and the second gaze direction, a selected panorama view and a selected bearing of the person. The system forms a localized subscene video signal based on the selected panorama view along the selected bearing of the person. The system generates a stage view signal based on the localized subscene video signal, and composites a composited signal comprising the stage view signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Inventors: Tom BUSHMAN, Ilya MOSKOVKO, Howard BROWN
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Publication number: 20220046186Abstract: A system for imaging a panorama view including a physical writing surface includes a camera capturing the panorama view and a sensor identifying a bearing of interest within the view. The system maintains a coordinate map of the view, adjusts an aspect ratio of the view, and generates a scaled panorama view based on the adjusted aspect ratio. The system also determines a coordinate of a designated view based on coordinate instructions and generates a designated view signal based on the determined coordinate of the designated view comprising at least a portion of the physical writing surface. The system composites a video signal including one or more of the scaled panorama view signal, a stage view signal, or the designated view signal, and transmits the composite video signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2021Publication date: February 10, 2022Applicant: Owl Labs Inc.Inventors: Joao Renato Kavamoto FAYAD, Tom BUSHMAN, Ilya MOSKOVKO, Howard BROWN
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Patent number: 10674885Abstract: An autonomous robot comprises a robot body, a drive configured to propel the robot, a sensor system disposed on the robot body, and a navigation controller circuit in communication with the drive and the sensor system. The sensor system comprises at least one proximity sensor comprising a sensor body, and a first emitter, a second emitter and a receiver housed by the sensor body, wherein the receiver detects objects in a bounded detection volume of the receiver field of view aimed outward and downward beyond a periphery of the robot body. The receiver is disposed above and between the first and second emitters, the emitters having a twice-reshaped emission beams angled upward to intersect the receiver field of view at a fixed range of distances from the periphery of the robot body to define the bounded detection volume.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2018Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: iRobot CorporationInventors: Tom Bushman, James Herman, Seth Blitzblau, Nathan J. Deschaine, Andrew Scott Reichel
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Publication number: 20180169863Abstract: An autonomous robot comprises a robot body, a drive configured to propel the robot, a sensor system disposed on the robot body, and a navigation controller circuit in communication with the drive and the sensor system. The sensor system comprises at least one proximity sensor comprising a sensor body, and a first emitter, a second emitter and a receiver housed by the sensor body, wherein the receiver detects objects in a bounded detection volume of the receiver field of view aimed outward and downward beyond a periphery of the robot body. The receiver is disposed above and between the first and second emitters, the emitters having a twice-reshaped emission beams angled upward to intersect the receiver field of view at a fixed range of distances from the periphery of the robot body to define the bounded detection volume.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2018Publication date: June 21, 2018Inventors: Tom Bushman, James Herman, Seth Blitzblau, Nathan J. Deschaine, Andrew Scott Reichel
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Patent number: 9919425Abstract: An autonomous robot comprises a robot body, a drive configured to propel the robot, a sensor system disposed on the robot body, and a navigation controller circuit in communication with the drive and the sensor system. The sensor system comprises at least one proximity sensor comprising a sensor body, and a first emitter, a second emitter and a receiver housed by the sensor body, wherein the receiver detects objects in a bounded detection volume of the receiver field of view aimed outward and downward beyond a periphery of the robot body. The receiver is disposed above and between the first and second emitters, the emitters having a twice-reshaped emission beams angled upward to intersect the receiver field of view at a fixed range of distances from the periphery of the robot body to define the bounded detection volume.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2015Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: iRobot CorporationInventors: Tom Bushman, James Herman, Seth Blitzblau, Nathan J. Deschaine, Andrew Scott Reichel
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Publication number: 20170001311Abstract: An autonomous robot comprises a robot body, a drive configured to propel the robot, a sensor system disposed on the robot body, and a navigation controller circuit in communication with the drive and the sensor system. The sensor system comprises at least one proximity sensor comprising a sensor body, and a first emitter, a second emitter and a receiver housed by the sensor body, wherein the receiver detects objects in a bounded detection volume of the receiver field of view aimed outward and downward beyond a periphery of the robot body. The receiver is disposed above and between the first and second emitters, the emitters having a twice-reshaped emission beams angled upward to intersect the receiver field of view at a fixed range of distances from the periphery of the robot body to define the bounded detection volume.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2015Publication date: January 5, 2017Inventors: Tom Bushman, James Herman, Seth Blitzblau, Nathan J. Deschaine, Andrew Scott Reichel