Patents Assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
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Publication number: 20250001294Abstract: A computer-implemented method for determining if a player has reached a certain level of gameplay-performance while playing a game within a virtual reality, VR, environment. The player wears a headset having a display for viewing the VR environment and an object tracking system. The headset's object tracking system is capable of tracking movement of a portion of the player in 3-D space to establish an actual-response path by the player during gameplay. The method includes calculating, at a first time, an ideal-response path of gameplay for the tracked portion of the player in 3-D space. The ideal-response path is the path that will achieve the certain level of gameplay performance. The method then compares, at a second time, the actual-response path with the calculated ideal-response path, and finally indicates, in response to a match in the comparing step, that the play has reached a certain level of gameplay performance.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2022Publication date: January 2, 2025Applicants: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC, WITHIN UNLIMITED, LLCInventors: Aaron KOBLIN, Chris MILK, Phillip WILLIAMS, Scott SULLIVAN
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Patent number: 12182320Abstract: Systems and methods for streaming-based object recognition may include a device which transmits, to a server, video data and first coordinates of a first viewport for the device at a first time instance. The video data may include one or more objects in the first viewport. The device may transmit second coordinates of a second viewport for the device at a second time instance. The device may receive, from the server, data corresponding to the one or more objects within the second viewpoint. The data may be received in a sequence according to coordinates of the one or more objects relative to the second viewport. The device may render the data relative to the one or more objects within a third viewport at a third time instance.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Kyungho Kim, Yee Sin Chan, Kyunghun Jung
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Patent number: 12182883Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes establishing a video call between a plurality of client systems, wherein access to an assistant system is persistently maintained during the video call, receiving, from a first client system of the plurality of client systems, a request by a first user to be performed by the assistant system during the video call, wherein the request references one or more activities associated with one or more users associated with the plurality of client systems, analyzing, by a context engine of the assistant system, images of a scene of the video call to identify the one or more activities within the scene, instructing the assistant system to execute the request based on the identified one or more activities, and sending, to one or more of the plurality of client systems, a response to the request while maintaining the video call between the plurality of client systems.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2021Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Xiaohu Liu, Baiyang Liu, Rajen Subba
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Patent number: 12183043Abstract: A computing system may access first alpha values associated with first pixels in a first pixel region of an image and determine a bit budget for encoding the first alpha values. The computing system may then select a first alpha-encoding mode for the first alpha values to reflect a determination that the first alpha values are all fully transparent or all fully opaque, and encode the first alpha values by storing the selected first alpha-encoding mode as part of a metadata without using the bit budget to encode the first alpha values individually. The computing system may then update a record of unallocated bits available for allocation based on the bit budget unused in the encoding of the first alpha values, and allocate, based on the record of unallocated bits, bits to encode a set of alpha values different from the first alpha values.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2023Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Cheng Chang, Zhi Zhou, Richard Webb, Richard Lawrence Greene
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Publication number: 20240430798Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for indicating a target wake time (TWT) service period (SP) termination may include a first device which receives, from a second device, an indication for terminating a TWT SP. The first device may determine a status of downlink traffic for transmission to the second device. The first device may transmit, to the second device, an SP termination notification according to the status of the downlink traffic and the indication. The first device may terminate the TWT SP according to the SP termination notification.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2024Publication date: December 26, 2024Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Muhammad Kumail Haider, Guoqing Li
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Patent number: 12175603Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to creating virtual doors within artificial reality (XR) universes for traversal within that XR universe and between other XR universes. Users can create virtual doors that control access to their privately owned property (e.g., world, parcel, house, etc.) in an XR universe. For example, an owner of a virtual door can manually lock the door to prevent any user from entering their property through the virtual door. As another example, an owner of a virtual door can configure door permissions and/or privacy settings that serve as heuristics by which a door access control manager determines whether to authorize a particular user, XR world, and/or XR universe to access. The XR universe traversal system can control an execution environment to smoothly transition between different applications, thereby enabling a user to traverse between different XR universes without having to leave the XR environment.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2022Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Rachel Cross, Patricia Dooley, Sarah Barrick, Jean Chin, Katerina Vasiliou, Tiffany Madruga
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Patent number: 12175602Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes scanning a real-world environment with a first device associated with a first user; generating a three-dimensional model of the real-world environment, transmitting the three-dimensional model to a head-mounted device associated with the first user, determining a pose of the head-mounted device by localizing the head-mounted device within the three-dimensional model based on images captured by a second camera of the head-mounted device, displaying, on the head-mounted device, a virtual space corresponding to the scanned real-world environment generated based on the three-dimensional model as viewed from the pose, and transmitting, to a remote head-mounted device of a second user, data corresponding to the three-dimensional model and the pose of the head-mounted device, the data being configured for rendering, by the remote head-mounted device, the virtual space with a first avatar corresponding to the first user having the pose.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2022Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Jan Herling, Nils Plath, Jan-Michael Frahm, Ahmad Al-Dahle
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Patent number: 12169592Abstract: A method for switching a configuration of an enhanced reality headset is provided. The method includes identifying a scenario to switch a configuration of an enhanced reality headset between a virtual reality configuration, an augmented reality configuration, and a direct reality configuration, wherein the virtual reality configuration and the augmented reality configuration include a computer generated image, and the direct reality configuration and the augmented reality configuration include a real-time image of an environment of a user of the enhanced reality headset. The method includes providing a notification to a user of the enhanced reality headset including an intent to switch the configuration of the enhanced reality headset, and switching the configuration of the enhanced reality headset according to the scenario.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2023Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Rachel Cross, Tiffany Madruga, Allison Fu, Meaghan Fitzgerald
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Patent number: 12167780Abstract: A necklace manager of an interactive necklace can sense user conditions and transmit messages to recipient computing devices. The necklace manager can compare sensed user conditions from the interactive necklace sensors to predefined user condition templates to determine a match. The matching predefined user condition template can be mapped to a user intent. The necklace manager can, in response to mapping the sensed user conditions to the user intent, transmit a message to a recipient device that is based on the mapped user intent and a user identifier. In some implementations, the recipient device can be an other interactive necklace that performs a mapped interactive necklace action in response to the received message. For example, a wearer of the recipient interactive necklace can perceive sentiments, emotions, and/or reactions from a user wearing the originating interactive necklace by perceiving interactive necklace actions triggered by the received message.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2022Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Charlene Mary Atlas, Nadine Sharon Anglin, Auset Parris
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Patent number: 12170445Abstract: A high frequency, high efficiency, near field wireless charging system and interface for battery-powered wearable devices are provided. A number of various magnetic core, multi-winding transmitter coil, receiver coil configurations may be used with the transmitter coils generating a charge voltage at the receiver coils through magnetic flux. In some configurations, a buck-boost assisted transmitter, or a buck-boost split between transmitter and receiver charging system may be used. In other configurations, a switch-cap boost block on the transmitter side may be used to increase efficiency. In yet other configurations, a dual path charging system (e.g., for smart glass temples) or a dual transmitter—single receiver charging system with buck-boost or switch-cap blocks may be used. The transmitter-receiver pair configurations may also be used to charge a battery module to be inserted into a wearable device.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2023Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventor: Baifeng Chen
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Patent number: 12169273Abstract: A varifocal ocular lens is disclosed. The varifocal ocular lens is based on a pancake lens having a polarization-folded optical path formed by two reflectors, e.g. one polarization-selective reflector and one partial reflector. By placing at least one of the reflectors onto a flexible deformable membrane, the shape e.g. radius of curvature and/or cylindricity of the reflector(s) may be dynamically changed to vary focal length and/or astigmatism of the ocular lens. Viewer's visual prescription and eye vergence may be dynamically and/or statically accommodated by the varifocal lens.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2021Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Babak Amirsolaimani, Yusufu Njoni Bamaxam Sulai, Kieran Connor Kelly, Spencer Allan Wells
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Patent number: 12170854Abstract: Some examples described herein include a noise-reduction circuit for an image sensor. The noise-reduction circuit can include a reference frame generator configured to generate a reference frame based on a set of image frames received from an image sensor during a calibration phase. The noise-reduction circuit can also include a memory coupled to the reference frame generator. The memory can receive the reference frame from the reference frame generator and store the reference frame for subsequent use during a noise-reduction phase. The noise-reduction circuit can further include a processor coupled to the memory. The processor can retrieve the reference frame from the memory and use the reference frame to reduce noise in an image frame received from the image sensor during the noise-reduction phase.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2022Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Tsung-Hsun Tsai, Lyle David Bainbridge
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Patent number: 12169290Abstract: The disclosed optical lens assemblies may include a pre-strained deformable element that exhibits a non-uniform mechanical strain or stress profile, a structural support element coupled to the pre-strained deformable element, and a deformable medium positioned between the pre-strained deformable element and the structural support element. Related head-mounted displays and methods of fabricating such optical lens assemblies are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2023Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Katherine Marie Smyth, Andrew John Ouderkirk
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Patent number: 12166955Abstract: A device for providing a reverse pass-through view of a user of a headset display to an onlooker includes an eyepiece comprising an optical surface configured to provide an image to a user on a first side of the optical surface. The device also includes a first camera configured to collect an image of a portion of a face of the user reflected from the optical surface in a first field of view, a display adjacent to the optical surface and configured to project forward an image of the face of the user, and a screen configured to receive light from the display and provide the image of the face of the user to an onlooker.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2023Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Nathan Matsuda, Brian Wheelwright, Joel Hegland
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Patent number: 12165334Abstract: A method for obtaining multiple frames of image data includes obtaining a first frame of image data of an entirety of a field of view by a camera sensor. The method also includes defining one or more regions of the field of view using the first frame of image data. The method includes determining at least one of a frame rate and an image capture resolution for each of the one or more regions. The method includes operating the camera sensor to obtain partial frames of image data by obtaining image data of the one or more regions of the field of view according to at least one of the frame rate and the image capture resolution, and re-constructing one or more full frames from partial frames of image data.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2021Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Ohad Meitav, Vlad Fruchter, Jeremy Snodgrass
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Patent number: 12164685Abstract: A method for managing a user interface in a smart glass is provided. The method includes identifying an eye gesture of the user of the smart glass, based on an eye-tracking signal indicative of a pupil location of the user, assessing a user intention for an application displayed in a user interface in the headset based on the eye gesture, and activating the application based on the user intention. A smart glass for use with the above method is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2023Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Sebastian Sztuk, Salvael Ortega Estrada
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Patent number: 12164741Abstract: A user uses “snap points” to activate virtual objects and/or to transition virtual objects from body-locked or head-locked (i.e., “leashed”) to world-locked. A snap point is a specific location in the user's artificial-reality (XR) world. When the user assumes a position near to where he was when he previously defined a snap point, the object ceases to be leashed and instead locks to the snap point (i.e., the object becomes “world-locked”). Until the user's distance from where he was when he defined the snap point exceeds a threshold value, the object remains stably world-locked at the snap point. When the user moves more than the threshold, the object releases from the snap point, returns to its previously defined leashed mode, and follows the user through the XR world as previously.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2022Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Camila Cortes De Almeida E De Vincenzo, Hayden Schoen
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Patent number: 12164140Abstract: Outcoupling elements are disposed with a transparent layer. A transparent waveguide structure receives non-visible light and delivers the non-visible light to the outcoupling elements. The outcoupling elements outcouple the non-visible light as non-visible illumination light.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2022Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Guohua Wei, Qi Zhang, Andrew John Ouderkirk, Matthew E Colburn
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Patent number: 12166296Abstract: The antenna architectures disclosed herein may include a magnetic dipole antenna that includes a radiating element formed in an open loop that includes at least first and second portions that are positioned opposite each other. The magnetic dipole antenna may further include an electrically conductive via connecting the first and second opposing portions of the radiating element. The magnetic dipole antenna may further include an antenna feed disposed within the electrically conductive via. The first portion of the radiating element may be shorter in length than the second, opposite portion of the radiating element, and the difference in length between the first and second portions of the radiating element may form a capacitive gap across the radiating element. Various other systems, apparatuses, wearable electronic devices, and methods of manufacturing are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2022Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Jiang Zhu, Wenjing Su
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Patent number: D1055086Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2022Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventor: Debashish Paul