Patents by Inventor Austin Caleb Germer

Austin Caleb Germer 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: 11954876
    Abstract: The method performed at an electronic device including one or more processors, a non-transitory memory, and a depth sensor includes: obtaining a task associated with a physical object within a physical environment; obtaining a task associated with a physical object within a physical environment; obtaining depth information, via the depth sensor, associated with the physical environment; determining one or more measurements for the physical object based at least in part on the depth information; generating a graphical overlay for the task based at least in part on the task associated with the physical object and the one or more measurements for the physical object; and causing presentation of the graphical overlay relative to a representation of the physical object, wherein the representation is obtained using sensor readings of the physical object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Austin Caleb Germer, Vincent Paul Sparacino, Adam James Bolton, Tomas Alvarez Rodriguez, Ryan Steven Bullock, Lori Lenore Smallwood
  • Publication number: 20230005166
    Abstract: The method performed at an electronic device including one or more processors, a non-transitory memory, and a depth sensor includes: obtaining a task associated with a physical object within a physical environment; obtaining a task associated with a physical object within a physical environment; obtaining depth information, via the depth sensor, associated with the physical environment; determining one or more measurements for the physical object based at least in part on the depth information; generating a graphical overlay for the task based at least in part on the task associated with the physical object and the one or more measurements for the physical object; and causing presentation of the graphical overlay relative to a representation of the physical object, wherein the representation is obtained using sensor readings of the physical object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Austin Caleb Germer, Vincent Paul Sparacino, Adam James Bolton, Tomas Alvarez Rodriguez, Ryan Steven Bullock, Lori Lenore Smallwood
  • Patent number: 11475582
    Abstract: The method performed at an electronic device including one or more processors, a non-transitory memory, and a depth sensor includes: obtaining a task associated with a physical object within a physical environment; obtaining depth information, via the depth sensor, associated with the physical environment; determining one or more measurements for the physical object based at least in part on the depth information; obtaining a graphical overlay based at least in part on the task and the one or more measurements for the physical object; and causing presentation of the graphical overlay adjacent to a representation of the physical object, wherein the representation is obtained using sensor readings of the physical object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Austin Caleb Germer, Vincent Paul Sparacino, Adam James Bolton, Tomas Alvarez Rodriguez, Ryan Steven Bullock, Lori Lenore Smallwood
  • Patent number: 11308669
    Abstract: A device includes a non-transitory memory and one or more processors coupled with the non-transitory memory. The device performs a method that includes detecting, in a set of one or more images, appearance features that define an appearance of an object represented in the set of one or more images. The appearance includes one or more shading effects associated with the object. The method includes generating a feature map for the object that encodes the detected appearance features of the object. The method includes displaying, based on the feature map, a computer-generated graphical object with one or more simulated shading effects that are within a degree of similarity to the one or more shading effects associated with the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Shem Nguyen, Austin Caleb Germer