Patents by Inventor Anton Andrews
Anton Andrews 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: 10599212Abstract: A touchless human computer interface (HCI) provides a virtual surface in three-dimensional space and a zone of restriction for defining a level of sensitivity to movements in order to cancel noise that may be caused by natural wobble of a human appendage. The touchless HCI may receive input regarding a user movement, process the input to generate clean gesture data and analyze at least one dynamic variable to determine an interpreted action based upon a relationship of the clean gesture data with respect to the virtual surface.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2017Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Brian Y. Yeung, Anton Andrews
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Publication number: 20170285783Abstract: A touchless human computer interface (HCI) provides a virtual surface in three-dimensional space and a zone of restriction for defining a level of sensitivity to movements in order to cancel noise that may be caused by natural wobble of a human appendage. The touchless HCI may receive input regarding a user movement, process the input to generate clean gesture data and analyze at least one dynamic variable to determine an interpreted action based upon a relationship of the clean gesture data with respect to the virtual surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2017Publication date: October 5, 2017Inventors: Brian Y. Yeung, Anton Andrews
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Patent number: 9652030Abstract: A touchless human computer interface (HCI) provides a virtual surface in three-dimensional space and a zone of restriction for defining a level of sensitivity to movements in order to cancel noise that may be caused by natural wobble of a human appendage. The touchless HCI may receive input regarding a user movement, process the input to generate clean gesture data and analyze at least one dynamic variable to determine an interpreted action based upon a relationship of the clean gesture data with respect to the virtual surface.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2009Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Brian Yeung, Anton Andrews
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Patent number: 9245501Abstract: Virtual objects are located for display in a head-mounted display (HMD) to provide an augment reality view to an HMD wearer. An HMD wearer's total field of view (TFOV) is classified into two or more regions. Additionally, a field of view (FOV) for the HMD wearer is determined. The FOV is compared with the two or more regions of the HMD wearer's TFOV. Responsive to this comparison, virtual objects are determined for display based on a location of the FOV relative to the two or more regions of the HMD wearer's TFOV. The virtual objects may then be displayed by the HMD at an appropriate location.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2015Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: James Chia-Ming Liu, Stephen Gilchrist Latta, Anton Andrews, Benjamin Isaac Vaught, Christopher Michael Novak, Sheridan Leigh Martin
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Publication number: 20150235632Abstract: Virtual objects are located for display in a head-mounted display (HMD) to provide an augment reality view to an HMD wearer. An HMD wearer's total field of view (TFOV) is classified into two or more regions. Additionally, a field of view (FOV) for the HMD wearer is determined. The FOV is compared with the two or more regions of the HMD wearer's TFOV. Responsive to this comparison, virtual objects are determined for display based on a location of the FOV relative to the two or more regions of the HMD wearer's TFOV. The virtual objects may then be displayed by the HMD at an appropriate location.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2015Publication date: August 20, 2015Inventors: JAMES CHIA-MING LIU, STEPHEN GILCHRIST LATTA, ANTON ANDREWS, BENJAMIN ISAAC VAUGHT, CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL NOVAK, SHERIDAN LEIGH MARTIN
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Patent number: 9041623Abstract: Virtual images are located for display in a head-mounted display (HMD) to provide an augment reality view to an HMD wearer. Sensor data may be collected from on-board sensors provided on an HMD. Additionally, other day may be collected from external sources. Based on the collected sensor data and other data, the position and rotation of the HMD wearer's head relative to the HMD wearer's body and surrounding environment may be determined. After resolving the HMD wearer's head position, the HMD wearer's total field of view (TFOV) may be classified into regions. Virtual images may then be located in the classified TFOV regions to locate the virtual images relative to the HMD wearer's body and surrounding environment.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2012Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: James Chia-Ming Liu, Stephen Gilchrist Latta, Anton Andrews, Benjamin Isaac Vaught, Christopher Michael Novak, Sheridan Leigh Martin
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Patent number: 8701040Abstract: A panoramic graphical user interface includes a contiguous background and a collection of mixed-media content objects. The contiguous background includes one or more space-orientating graphical elements and is sized to fit within a first dimension of a display and to extend beyond a second dimension of the display. The collection of mixed-media content objects are anchored over the contiguous background. The collection of mixed-media content objects are arranged to fit within the first dimension of the display and arranged to extend beyond the second dimension of the display.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2008Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Anton Andrews, Jeffrey Fong, Marc S. Doll
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Patent number: 8600457Abstract: A method and apparatus for operating a mobile communication device in a sleep mode. The mobile communication device displays a time in an easily readable format at a low-light intensity, provides an alert to a user at an alarm time in a particular manner specified by the user, changes the buttons on the mobile communication device to operate as snooze buttons, and suppresses a portion of call and message notifications received by the mobile communication device when the mobile communication device is in the sleep mode. The sleep mode operation is performed, at least in part, according to sleep-mode user settings chosen by the user.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2007Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Sandra Irene Vargas, Keith Rowe, Peter Chin, Anton Andrews
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Publication number: 20130093789Abstract: Virtual images are located for display in a head-mounted display (HMD) to provide an augment reality view to an HMD wearer. Sensor data may be collected from on-board sensors provided on an HMD. Additionally, other day may be collected from external sources. Based on the collected sensor data and other data, the position and rotation of the HMD wearer's head relative to the HMD wearer's body and surrounding environment may be determined. After resolving the HMD wearer's head position, the HMD wearer's total field of view (TFOV) may be classified into regions. Virtual images may then be located in the classified TFOV regions to locate the virtual images relative to the HMD wearer's body and surrounding environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2012Publication date: April 18, 2013Inventors: JAMES CHIA-MING LIU, STEPHEN GILCHRIST LATTA, ANTON ANDREWS, BENJAMIN ISAAC VAUGHT, CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL NOVAK, SHERIDAN LEIGH SMALL
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Publication number: 20120327116Abstract: Virtual images are located for display in a head-mounted display (HMD) to provide an augment reality view to an HMD wearer. Sensor data may be collected from on-board sensors provided on an HMD. Additionally, other day may be collected from external sources. Based on the collected sensor data and other data, the position and rotation of the HMD wearer's head relative to the HMD wearer's body and surrounding environment may be determined. After resolving the HMD wearer's head position, the HMD wearer's total field of view (TFOV) may be classified into regions. Virtual images may then be located in the classified TFOV regions to locate the virtual images relative to the HMD wearer's body and surrounding environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2011Publication date: December 27, 2012Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: JAMES CHIA-MING LIU, STEPHEN GILCHRIST LATTA, ANTON ANDREWS, BENJAMIN ISSAC VAUGHT, CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL NOVAK, SHERIDAN LEIGH SMALL
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Publication number: 20100199221Abstract: A touchless HCI provides a virtual surface in three-dimensional space. The touchless HCI may receive input regarding a user movement, process the input to generate clean gesture data and analyze at least one dynamical variable to determine an interpreted action based upon a relationship of the clean gesture data with respect to the virtual surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2009Publication date: August 5, 2010Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Brian Yeung, Anton Andrews
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Publication number: 20100083165Abstract: A panoramic graphical user interface includes a contiguous background and a collection of mixed-media content objects. The contiguous background includes one or more space-orientating graphical elements and is sized to fit within a first dimension of a display and to extend beyond a second dimension of the display. The collection of mixed-media content objects are anchored over the contiguous background.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2008Publication date: April 1, 2010Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Anton Andrews, Jeffrey Fong, Marc S. Doll
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Publication number: 20100064261Abstract: A computer program executable on a portable electronic device having a touch screen sensor is provided. The computer program may include an input mode switching module configured to receive a mode switch user input to switch between a direct input mode and a relative gesture recognition mode. The computer program may further include a gesture-based control module configured, in the relative gesture recognition mode, to recognize a contact point on the touch screen sensor between a digit of a user and a surface of the touch screen sensor in a defined region in which the graphical user interface elements are unselectable, and to identify a detected gesture based on user touch input originating from the contact point, and to send a message to an application program to adjust an operation of the portable electronic device based on the detected gesture.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2008Publication date: March 11, 2010Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Anton Andrews, Thamer Abanami, Jeffrey Fong
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Publication number: 20090143114Abstract: A method and apparatus for operating a mobile communication device in a sleep mode. The mobile communication device displays a time in an easily readable format at a low-light intensity, provides an alert to a user at an alarm time in a particular manner specified by the user, changes the buttons on the mobile communication device to operate as snooze buttons, and suppresses a portion of call and message notifications received by the mobile communication device when the mobile communication device is in the sleep mode. The sleep mode operation is performed, at least in part, according to sleep-mode user settings chosen by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2007Publication date: June 4, 2009Inventors: Sandra Irene Vargas, Keith Rowe, Peter Chin, Anton Andrews
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Patent number: D570870Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2007Date of Patent: June 10, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Carl J. Ledbetter, Catherine Kim, Steven T. Kaneko, Anton Andrews, Donald R. Coyner
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Patent number: D571823Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2007Date of Patent: June 24, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Carl J. Ledbetter, Catherine Kim, Steven T. Kaneko, Anton Andrews, Donald R. Coyner
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Patent number: D571824Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2007Date of Patent: June 24, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Carl J. Ledbetter, Catherine Kim, Steven T. Kaneko, Anton Andrews, Donald R. Coyner
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Patent number: D571825Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2007Date of Patent: June 24, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Carl J. Ledbetter, Catherine Kim, Steven T. Kaneko, Anton Andrews, Donald R. Coyner
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Patent number: D572729Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2007Date of Patent: July 8, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Carl J. Ledbetter, Catherine Kim, Steven T. Kaneko, Anton Andrews, Donald R. Coyner