Patents by Inventor Ben Weisbih
Ben Weisbih 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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Publication number: 20230209373Abstract: A cross reality system enables any of multiple devices to efficiently and accurately access previously stored maps and render virtual content specified in relation to those maps. Both stored maps and tracking maps used by portable devices may have wireless fingerprints associated with them. The portable devices may maintain wireless fingerprints based on wireless scans performed repetitively, based on one or more trigger conditions, as the devices move around the physical world. The wireless information obtained from these scans may be used to create or update wireless fingerprints associated with locations in a tracking map on the devices. One or more of these wireless fingerprints may be used when a previously stored map is to be selected based on its coverage of an area in which the portable device is operating. Maintaining wireless fingerprints in this way provides a reliable and low latency mechanism for performing map-related operations.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2023Publication date: June 29, 2023Applicant: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventors: Gilboa Shveki, Ben Weisbih, Ofer Kapota, Rafael Domingos Torres, Daniel Olshansky, Joel David Holder
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Patent number: 11632679Abstract: A cross reality system enables any of multiple devices to efficiently and accurately access previously stored maps and render virtual content specified in relation to those maps. Both stored maps and tracking maps used by portable devices may have wireless fingerprints associated with them. The portable devices may maintain wireless fingerprints based on wireless scans performed repetitively, based on one or more trigger conditions, as the devices move around the physical world. The wireless information obtained from these scans may be used to create or update wireless fingerprints associated with locations in a tracking map on the devices. One or more of these wireless fingerprints may be used when a previously stored map is to be selected based on its coverage of an area in which the portable device is operating. Maintaining wireless fingerprints in this way provides a reliable and low latency mechanism for performing map-related operations.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2020Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventors: Gilboa Shveki, Ben Weisbih, Ofer Kapota, Rafael Domingos Torres, Daniel Olshansky, Joel David Holder
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Publication number: 20230108794Abstract: A portable electronic system receives a set of one or more canonical maps and determines the sparse map based at least in part upon one or more anchors pertaining to the physical environment. The sparse map is localized to at least one canonical map in the set of one or more canonical maps, and a new canonical map is created at least by merging sparse map data of the sparse map into the at least one canonical map. The set of one or more canonical maps may be determined from a universe of canonical maps comprising a plurality of canonical maps by applying a hierarchical filtering scheme to the universe. The sparse map may be localized to the at least one canonical map at least by splitting the sparse map into a plurality of connected components and by one or more merger operations.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2022Publication date: April 6, 2023Applicant: MAGIC LEAP, INC.Inventors: Moshe BOUHNIK, Ben WEISBIH, Miguel Andres GRANADOS VELASQUEZ, Ali SHAHROKNI, Ashwin SWAMINATHAN
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Patent number: 11574424Abstract: An augmented reality device may communicate with a map server via an API interface to provide mapping data that may be implemented into a canonical map, and may also receive map data from the map server. A visualization of map quality, including quality indicators for multiple cells of the environment, may be provided to the user as an overlay to the current real-world environment seen through the AR device. These visualizations may include, for example, a map quality minimap and/or a map quality overlay. The visualizations provide guidance to the user that allows more efficient updates to the map, thereby improving map quality and localization of users into the map.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2021Date of Patent: February 7, 2023Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventors: Griffith Buckley Hazen, Amy DeDonato, Ali Shahrokni, Ben Weisbih, Vinayram Balakumar
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Patent number: 11532124Abstract: A cross reality system receives tracking information in a tracking map and first location metadata associated with at least a portion of the tracking map. A sub-portion of a canonical map is determined based at least in part on a correspondence between the first location metadata associated with the at least the portion of the tracking map and second location metadata associated with the sub-portion of the canonical map. The sub-portion of the canonical map may be merged with the at least the portion of the tracking map into a merged map. The cross reality system may further generate the tracking map by using at least the pose information from one or more images and localize the tracking map to the canonical may at least by using a persistent coordinate frame in the canonical map and the location metadata associated with the location represented in the tracking map.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2021Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventors: Moshe Bouhnik, Ben Weisbih, Miguel Andres Granados Velasquez, Ali Shahrokni, Ashwin Swaminathan
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Publication number: 20210279953Abstract: A cross reality system receives tracking information in a tracking map and first location metadata associated with at least a portion of the tracking map. A sub-portion of a canonical map is determined based at least in part on a correspondence between the first location metadata associated with the at least the portion of the tracking map and second location metadata associated with the sub-portion of the canonical map. The sub-portion of the canonical map may be merged with the at least the portion of the tracking map into a merged map. The cross reality system may further generate the tracking map by using at least the pose information from one or more images and localize the tracking map to the canonical may at least by using a persistent coordinate frame in the canonical map and the location metadata associated with the location represented in the tracking map.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2021Publication date: September 9, 2021Applicant: MAGIC LEAP, INC.Inventors: Moshe Bouhnik, Ben Weisbih, Miguel Andres Granados Velasquez, Ali Shahrokni, Ashwin Swaminathan
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Publication number: 20210233288Abstract: An augmented reality device may communicate with a map server via an API interface to provide mapping data that may be implemented into a canonical map, and may also receive map data from the map server. A visualization of map quality, including quality indicators for multiple cells of the environment, may be provided to the user as an overlay to the current real-world environment seen through the AR device. These visualizations may include, for example, a map quality minimap and/or a map quality overlay. The visualizations provide guidance to the user that allows more efficient updates to the map, thereby improving map quality and localization of users into the map.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2021Publication date: July 29, 2021Inventors: Griffith Buckley Hazen, Amy DeDonato, Ali Shahrokni, Ben Weisbih, Vinayram Balakumar
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Publication number: 20210112427Abstract: A cross reality system enables any of multiple devices to efficiently and accurately access previously stored maps and render virtual content specified in relation to those maps. Both stored maps and tracking maps used by portable devices may have wireless fingerprints associated with them. The portable devices may maintain wireless fingerprints based on wireless scans performed repetitively, based on one or more trigger conditions, as the devices move around the physical world. The wireless information obtained from these scans may be used to create or update wireless fingerprints associated with locations in a tracking map on the devices. One or more of these wireless fingerprints may be used when a previously stored map is to be selected based on its coverage of an area in which the portable device is operating. Maintaining wireless fingerprints in this way provides a reliable and low latency mechanism for performing map-related operations.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Applicant: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventors: Gilboa Shveki, Ben Weisbih, Ofer Kapota, Rafael Domingos Torres, Daniel Olshansky, Joel David Holder