Patents by Inventor Alejandro Kauffmann

Alejandro Kauffmann 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: 8643951
    Abstract: Methods and systems involving a navigable area in a head-mounted display (HMD) are disclosed herein. An exemplary system may be configured to: (a) cause a head-mounted display (HMD) to provide: (i) a viewing window that is fully visible in a field of view of the HMD, (ii) a navigable area that is not fully visible in a field of view of the HMD such that the viewing window displays a first portion of the navigable area, and (iii) a media object that is associated with a viewing-window state; (b) receive first head-movement data that is indicative of head movement from a first position of the HMD to a second position of the HMD; and (c) based on (i) the first head-movement data and (ii) the viewing-window state, cause the viewing window to display a second portion of the navigable area which includes the media object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Joseph Wheeler, Alejandro Kauffmann, Liang-Yu (Tom) Chi, Hayes Solos Raffle, Luis Ricardo Prada Gomez
  • Publication number: 20130135353
    Abstract: Methods and devices for applying at least one manipulative action to a selected content object are disclosed. In one aspect, a head-mounted-device (HMD) system includes at least one processor and data storage with user-interface logic executable by the at least one processor to apply at least one manipulative action to a displayed content object based on received data that indicates a first direction in which the HMD is tilted and an extent to which the HMD is tilted in the first direction. The at least one manipulative action is applied to a degree corresponding to the indicated extent to which the HMD is tilted in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2011
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Aaron Joseph Wheeler, Alejandro Kauffmann, Liang-Lu (Tom) Chi, Max Braun