Patents Examined by Chante E. Harrison
  • Patent number: 11967000
    Abstract: A method for generating one or more emoticons for one or more users with respect to one or more fictional characters is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Dimple Sharma, Dewesh Deo Singh, Sattdeepan Dutta
  • Patent number: 11948242
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are described for intelligent smoothing of 3D alternative reality applications for secondary 2D viewing. A computing device receives a first data set corresponding to a first position of an alternative reality viewing device. The computing device generates a 3D virtual environment for display on the alternative reality viewing device using the first data set, and a 2D rendering of the virtual environment for display on a display device using the first data set. The computing device receives a second data set corresponding to a second position of the alternative reality viewing device after movement of the alternative reality viewing device. The computing device determines whether a difference between the first data set and the second data set is above a threshold. The computing device updates the 2D rendering of the virtual environment on the display device using the second data set, when the difference is above the threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: FMR LLC
    Inventors: Adam Schouela, David Martin, Brian Lough, James Andersen, Cecelia Brooks
  • Patent number: 11941763
    Abstract: A viewing system which presents augmented reality of a 3D model representing an appearance of a target, comprises: an obtainer which is able to obtain a captured image of the target; a creator which is able to create a 3D model of the target based on the captured image obtained by the obtainer; and a presenter which is able to present the 3D model of the target created by the creator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SQUARE ENIX CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Makoto Tsuda
  • Patent number: 11935639
    Abstract: An augmented reality interactive rehabilitation system includes an augmented reality eyewear device, a holding seat, a haptic module and sensing modules. The holding seat has a first recess and a second recess smaller in cross section than the first recess. The haptic module is removably placeable into the holding seat, and has a first end to be received in the first recess and a second end to be received in the second recess. The sensing modules are informationally connected to the augmented reality eyewear device and disposed in the holding seat to detect whether the haptic module is placed in a correct position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Inventors: Ping-Chia Li, Jyh-Bin Suen, Wan-Chien Yang
  • Patent number: 11908088
    Abstract: Virtual resources can be controlled from within an augmented reality environment. For example, a computing device can display, in an augmented reality environment, a representation of a physical object corresponding to a virtual resource. The computing device can receive an interaction with the representation of the physical object in the augmented reality environment. The computing device can output a command to cause a result in the virtual resource external to the augmented reality environment based on the interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Braverman Masis, Adam Christopher Scerra
  • Patent number: 11900547
    Abstract: A cross reality system enables portable devices to access stored maps and efficiently and accurately render virtual content specified in relation to those maps. The system may process images acquired with a portable device to quickly and accurately localize the portable device to the persisted maps by constraining the result of localization based on the estimated direction of gravity of a persisted map and the coordinate frame in which data in a localization request is posed. The system may actively align the data in the localization request with an estimated direction of gravity during the localization processing, and/or a portable device may establish a coordinate frame in which the data in the localization request is posed aligned with an estimated direction of gravity such that the subsequently acquired data for inclusion in a localization request, when posed in that coordinate frame, is passively aligned with the estimated direction of gravity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Javier Victorio Gomez Gonzalez, Miguel Andres Granados Velasquez, Mukta Prasad, Dominik Michael Kasper, Eran Guendelman, Keng-Sheng Lin
  • Patent number: 11900550
    Abstract: A method of providing an interactive personal mobility system, performed by one or more processors, comprises determining an initial pose by visual-inertial odometry performed on images and inertial measurement unit (IMU) data generated by a wearable augmented reality device. Sensor data transmitted from a personal mobility system is received, and sensor fusion is performed on the data received from the personal mobility system to provide an updated pose. Augmented reality effects are displayed on the wearable augmented reality device based on the updated pose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SNAP INC.
    Inventors: Edmund Graves Brown, Benjamin Lucas, Jonathan M. Rodriguez, II, Richard Zhuang
  • Patent number: 11887266
    Abstract: A method to enhance security screening includes generating an augmented reality (AR) interface incorporating scan results from scanning a target in a security scanner. The method displays, to a user of an AR interface, the AR interface mapped to the target and determines guidance including an action relevant to addressing the scan results. The method displays, to the user via the AR interface, the guidance including the action for the user to carry out and monitors user actions. The method displays, to the user via the AR interface, confirmation that the user has carried out the action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security
    Inventors: William Hastings, James Matt Gilkeson, Mara Winn
  • Patent number: 11875462
    Abstract: In implementations of systems for augmented reality authoring of remote environments, a computing device implements an augmented reality authoring system to display a three-dimensional representation of a remote physical environment on a display device based on orientations of an image capture device. The three-dimensional representation of the remote physical environment is generated from a three-dimensional mesh representing a geometry of the remote physical environment and digital video frames depicting portions of the remote physical environment. The augmented reality authoring system receives input data describing a request to display a digital video frame of the digital video frames. A particular digital video frame of the digital video frames is determined based on an orientation of the image capture device relative to the three-dimensional mesh. The augmented reality authoring system displays the particular digital video frame on the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Zeyu Wang, Paul J. Asente, Cuong D. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11874956
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems related to a computing device for displaying an AR responsive to an input are described. An input can include, but is not limited to, a timestamp, weather data, event data, a rating, a user preference, a user input, or a location. In an example, a method can include receiving an input at an AR platform of a computing device from a processing resource of the computing device, receiving an image at the AR platform from a camera of the computing device, comparing the image to a number of AR images included on the AR platform, determining at the AR platform that the image is an AR image of the number of AR images, receiving at a user interface an AR associated with the AR image from the AR platform, and displaying the AR on the user interface in response to receiving the AR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Radhika Viswanathan, Bhumika Chhabra, Carla L. Christensen, Zahra Hosseinimakarem
  • Patent number: 11861800
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for presenting available augmented reality (AR) content items. The program and method provide for displaying a capture interface in accordance with a camera mode configured to capture multiple video clips; displaying a carousel interface for presenting a first set of AR content items, each being selectable to apply respective AR content to captured video; receiving first user input selecting an explore tab included which is selectable to switch to an explorer interface for presenting a second set of AR content items; switching from the capture interface to the explorer interface; receiving, via the explorer interface, second user input selecting an AR content item from among the second set; and updating, in response to receiving the second user input, the first set of AR content items to include the selected AR content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Kaveh Anvaripour, Christine Barron, Amar Boghani, Ranidu Lankage, Gabriel Lupin
  • Patent number: 11847749
    Abstract: A system for preparing a mission from a digital mapping, includes a mission editor generating mission elements that can change over the course of several determined temporal phases, including on a network a mission server, a mapping server, a server for sharing at least one centre of the map and a plurality of augmented reality headsets, at least one of the augmented reality headsets, called master headset, being able to generate at least one command for modifying the centre, each headset being able to receive at least two sets of elevation and terrain tiles from the mapping server, the mission server interfacing with the headsets to share and update the mission elements and to change them over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE SAS
    Inventors: François Lebeaupin, Fabien Dumon, Nicolas Raggueneau, Olivier Frouin, Bertrand Oustriere, Guillaume Vauclin
  • Patent number: 11842449
    Abstract: In an exemplary process, a computer-generated reality environment comprising a virtual object is presented and user movement that occurs in a physical environment is detected. In response to determining that the detected user movement is toward the virtual object and that the virtual object obstructs a real object from the physical environment, a determination is made whether the detected user movement is directed to the virtual object or the real object. In accordance with a determination that the detected user movement is directed to the real object, a visual appearance of the virtual object is modified, where modifying the visual appearance of the virtual object comprises displaying presenting at least a portion of the real object. In accordance with a determination that the detected user movement is directed to the virtual object, the presentation of the virtual object is maintained to obstruct the real object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexis Palangie, Aaron Mackay Burns
  • Patent number: 11836999
    Abstract: A method implemented on an augmented reality (AR) device includes receiving an image of a document on the AR device. The image of the document includes one or more areas of obfuscated text. A marker on the document is identified. The marker is associated with an area of obfuscated text on the document. The marker is scanned using the AR device. When the user of the AR device is authenticated, a non-obfuscated image of the text associated with the marker is displayed on the AR device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Robert L. Carter, Jr., Kourtney Eidam, Andres J. Saenz
  • Patent number: 11836826
    Abstract: The subject technology selects a set of augmented reality content generators from a plurality of augmented reality content generators. The subject technology causes display, at a client device, of a graphical interface comprising a plurality of selectable graphical items. The subject technology receives, at the client device, a selection of a first selectable graphical item from the plurality of selectable graphical items, the first selectable graphical item comprising a first augmented reality content generator corresponding to a particular geolocation. The subject technology causes display, at the client device, at least one augmented content reality item generated by the first augmented reality content generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Ilteris Kaan Canberk, Virginia Drummond, Jean Luo, Alek Matthiessen, Celia Nicole Mourkogiannis
  • Patent number: 11816802
    Abstract: A method for configuring and displaying, in augmented or mixed or extended reality, the information relating to equipment installed in a real site, including: constructing a database in which each document or each selected part of a document is associated with a corresponding electronic tag that contains an address which leads to the document or to the selected part of the document associated therewith; unequivocally identifying the equipment installed in the real site; associating the identified equipment with an electronic tag; creating one or more first points of interest linked to at least one electronic tag and configured to be superposed on a first document or on a first selected part of a corresponding document; creating one or more second points of interest to be displayed in a manner superposed on the equipment; and associating a second point of interest with at least one first point of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Schneider Electric Industries SAS
    Inventors: Thierry Chiche, Romain Gassion, Tewfik Meftah, Yannick Neyret
  • Patent number: 11816804
    Abstract: Disclosed are a method and a system of recommending an accommodation for tourists using multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) and augmented reality. A method of recommending an accommodation for tourists using multi-criteria decision making and augmented reality, which is performed by a server device includes: selecting a recommendation target accommodation based on a current location of a user; selecting a plurality of recommended accommodations by MCDM based on user information including pre-registered preference information among the recommendation target accommodations; and providing an augmented reality interface displaying information on a recommended accommodation to a user terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: INDUSTRY ACADEMY COOPERATION FOUNDATION OF SEJONG
    Inventors: Soo Mi Choi, Abolghasem Sadeghi-Niaraki, Somaiieh Rokhsaritalemi
  • Patent number: 11798276
    Abstract: In one example, a method performed by a processing system including at least one processor includes identifying an environment surrounding a user of an augmented reality display, identifying a relative location of the user within the environment, determining a field of view of the augmented reality display, identifying an individual within the field of view, querying a data source for information related to the individual, and modifying the augmented reality display to present the information related to the individual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Robert Moton, Jr., Adrianne Luu, James Pratt, Barrett Kreiner, Walter Cooper Chastain, Robert Koch, Ari Craine
  • Patent number: 11798240
    Abstract: A method for social networking using a multi-focal plane augmented reality display of a host vehicle includes receiving social-networking data from a remote device. The social-networking data includes information about at least one social interest of a remote user of the remote device. The remote device is located within a viewable area of a vehicle user of the host vehicle. The method further includes determining whether at least one social interest of the remote user matches a vehicle-user social interest of the vehicle user of the host vehicle using the social-networking data. The method further includes transmitting a command signal to the multi-focal plane augmented reality display of the host vehicle to display a virtual image on the multi-focal plane augmented reality display. The virtual image is indicative of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Joseph F. Szczerba, John P. Weiss, Kai-Han Chang, Thomas A. Seder
  • Patent number: 11798236
    Abstract: Augmented reality is used to visualize musical notes or groups of musical notes for example using a display proximate a user's eyes, for example where images in the display appear to be in a space in front of or around the user, for example where the images in the display are for manipulation by an augmented reality controller, for example where the augmented reality controller is held by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Inventor: Mark Strachan