Patents by Inventor Benjamin Andrew Rottler

Benjamin Andrew Rottler 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: 11874959
    Abstract: A non-text notification bubble or other graphical object can be presented during an augmented reality, mixed reality, or virtual reality simulation to notify a user that a real-world object is approaching or has crossed a boundary for an interaction space within which the user is to interact with the simulation. Responsive to the system identifying the user as looking at the bubble or other graphical object, the system may then present another notification about the real-world object approaching or crossing the boundary. The real-world object may be an intrusion into the interaction space, such as a human or animal crossing into the space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Tomczek, Benjamin Andrew Rottler
  • Publication number: 20240001223
    Abstract: Managing controller connection, including: determining whether at least one controller is connected to a game system, and performing and repeating the following until transitioned into a one-handed operation or two-handed operation of a user: (a) if more than one controller connection is detected, transitioning into the two-handed operation; (b) if no controller connection is detected, requesting the user to connect the at least one controller; (c) if connection of only a first controller is detected, requesting the user to connect a second controller; (d) if connection of the second controller is not detected, transitioning into the one-handed operation, wherein the transition into the one-handed operation is made after determining and deciding to continue with only the first controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Hee Gyung Sun, Benjamin Andrew Rottler
  • Publication number: 20240004462
    Abstract: Gaze tracking to track gaze of a user within a user view screen including: combining the gaze tracking with head movement tracking, wherein head movements of the head movement tracking provide rough estimate of a direction of the gaze of the user, while eye movements of the gaze tracking provide fine tuning of the direction of the gaze of the user within the user view screen; dividing the user view screen into a plurality of gaze zones when gaze zone estimation is turned on; and combining the gaze tracking with the gaze zone estimation to select a gaze zone from the plurality of gaze zones as the direction of the gaze of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Hee Gyung Sun, Benjamin Andrew Rottler
  • Patent number: 11852812
    Abstract: Incorporating camera through (CT) or augmented-reality (AR) vision into a display of a headset, including: displaying the CT or AR vision on a view screen of the display of the headset, when the CT or AR vision is selected by a user; prompting the user to enter or select at least one object to be highlighted on the view screen in a CT or AR vision mode; and highlighting the at least one selected object on the view screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Hee Gyung Sun, Benjamin Andrew Rottler
  • Publication number: 20230093031
    Abstract: A non-fungible token (NFT) associated with a computer game asset can be offered to a player or spectator of a computer game along with a predicted value of the asset generated by a machine learning (ML) model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Manjari Sharda, Benjamin Andrew Rottler
  • Publication number: 20230080905
    Abstract: A non-text notification bubble or other graphical object can be presented during an augmented reality, mixed reality, or virtual reality simulation to notify a user that a real-world object is approaching or has crossed a boundary for an interaction space within which the user is to interact with the simulation. Responsive to the system identifying the user as looking at the bubble or other graphical object, the system may then present another notification about the real-world object approaching or crossing the boundary. The real-world object may be an intrusion into the interaction space, such as a human or animal crossing into the space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Matthew Tomczek, Benjamin Andrew Rottler
  • Publication number: 20230078189
    Abstract: An input device such as a cell phone or computer game controller being held in a portrait versus a landscape orientation is used to select different computer game modes, such as zooming, switching between first and third person perspectives, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Yiwei Yang, Joshua Santangelo, Jonathan Webb, Benjamin Andrew Rottler
  • Publication number: 20230042269
    Abstract: Data processing/GUIs for NFT block chain data to “tell the story” of ownership or highlight “cool” aspects of a computer game-related NFT in simplified way. Machine learning (ML) may be used to boil down the complexity of data to what people need or want to understand. The displayed timeline of ownership as presented in a GUI can be interactive. Types of metadata to encapsulate in the NFT are discussed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventors: Warren Benedetto, Yiwei Yang, Daniel Steven Hiatt, Charles Denison, Joshua Santangelo, Matthew Tomczek, Jonathan Webb, Benjamin Andrew Rottler
  • Patent number: 10394429
    Abstract: Example embodiments relate to sharing of user interface objects via a shared space in a data sharing application. In example embodiments, a data sharing application provides a shared space. A user command may then be received to transfer a respective UI object from each of a plurality of applications to the shared space. In response, each transferred UI object may be displayed within the shared space, such that each displayed UI object retains associated functionality from the corresponding application within the shared space. Finally, each UI object in the shared space may be shared with a plurality of users granted access to the shared space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Benjamin Andrew Rottler, Pilar Ariella Strutin-Belinoff, Lindsay J Metcalfe, Itai Vonshak, Velma Velazquez, Chadwyck Wirtz, Suresh Arumugam, Greg Arroyo, Itay Levin, Alex Rapoport
  • Patent number: 10341425
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer readable media for sharing awareness information are provided. A non-aware electronic device can require awareness information including, for example, information about its environment or information about its status within its environment, in order to perform a particular device operation. When the non-aware device lacks an awareness component for detecting the required type of awareness information, the non-aware device can establish a communications path with an aware device that includes such an appropriate awareness component. The aware device can share the required type of awareness information as captured by its awareness component with the non-aware device. The distance between the non-aware device and the aware device can be less than a threshold distance to ensure that the shared awareness information is relevant to the non-aware device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Andrew Rottler, Kyle Patrick Nadeau, Tyler Mincey, Taido L. Nakajima
  • Patent number: 10007426
    Abstract: A method of managing user interface content, including performing character entry without a keyboard, is disclosed. The method includes displaying a character entry area and a character selection indicia, wherein the character selection indicia is displayed at a first predefined location, and the character selection indicia includes locations corresponding to respective characters in a plurality of characters; detecting a point of contact over the character selection indicia; in response to detecting the contact over the character selection indicia, displaying at a second predefined location distinct from the first predefined location a temporary character that represents a character to be selected; while displaying the temporary character, detecting a character selection gesture; and, in response to detecting the character selection gesture, selecting a character corresponding to the temporary character for placement in the character entry area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jeffery Theodore Lee, Benjamin Andrew Rottler
  • Publication number: 20170257427
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer readable media for sharing awareness information are provided. A non-aware electronic device can require awareness information including, for example, information about its environment or information about its status within its environment, in order to perform a particular device operation. When the non-aware device lacks an awareness component for detecting the required type of awareness information, the non-aware device can establish a communications path with an aware device that includes such an appropriate awareness component. The aware device can share the required type of awareness information as captured by its awareness component with the non-aware device. The distance between the non-aware device and the aware device can be less than a threshold distance to ensure that the shared awareness information is relevant to the non-aware device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Andrew Rottler, Kyle Patrick Nadeau, Tyler Mincey, Taido L. Nakajima
  • Patent number: 9588674
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a split-screen user interface for a computer device. According to one embodiment, a primary application is displayed on a display associated with the computing device in a first viewing mode. Upon receiving a request from the user to launch to a split-screen operating mode for enabling simultaneous display of multiple applications, the first viewing mode is transitioned to a split-screen view such that the primary application is shown within a first display area and a plurality of applications are shown within a second display area adjacent to the first display area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Pilar Ariella Strutin-Belinoff, Benjamin Andrew Rottler, Gregory Robert Arroyo, Itai Vonshak
  • Publication number: 20150074585
    Abstract: A method of managing user interface content, including performing character entry without a keyboard, is disclosed. The method includes displaying a character entry area and a character selection indicia, wherein the character selection indicia is displayed at a first predefined location, and the character selection indicia includes locations corresponding to respective characters in a plurality of characters; detecting a point of contact over the character selection indicia; in response to detecting the contact over the character selection indicia, displaying at a second predefined location distinct from the first predefined location a temporary character that represents a character to be selected; while displaying the temporary character, detecting a character selection gesture; and, in response to detecting the character selection gesture, selecting a character corresponding to the temporary character for placement in the character entry area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Jeffery Theodore LEE, Benjamin Andrew ROTTLER
  • Publication number: 20140359489
    Abstract: A web browser that records and displays browsing history. For each web page, a thumbnail image of the web page and a group associated with the web page are recorded. A group is displayed along a first axis, the thumbnail image of each page associated with that group displayable along a second orthogonal axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Colin Shengcai Zhao, Itai Vonshak, Ian I. Tam, Benjamin Andrew Rottler
  • Publication number: 20140214863
    Abstract: A plurality of entities are each associated with a corresponding set of data items. A representation is assigned to each entity in the plurality of entities. The representation of any one or more entities in the plurality of entities can be placed in a selected state with user input. Data items from the collection can be filtered based on the representations that are placed in the selected state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Benjamin Andrew Rottler, Gregory Robert Arroyo
  • Patent number: 8773470
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for displaying visual information on an electronic display are provided. For example, rather than requiring a user to manually pan and zoom across visual information displayed on an electronic display, an electronic device may automatically display certain details of the visual information that are of interest to the user. One such method may include defining objects in visual information and detecting certain specific touch input gestures entered on the electronic display while the electronic display is displaying the visual information. When the touch input gestures are detected, the electronic device may automatically display a sequence of the objects of the visual information on the electronic display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Ignazio Ingrassia, Jr., Benjamin Andrew Rottler
  • Publication number: 20140157163
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention disclose a split-screen user interface for a computer device. According to one embodiment, a primary application is displayed on a display associated with the computing device in a first viewing mode. Upon receiving a request from the user to launch to a split-screen operating mode for enabling simultaneous display of multiple applications, the first viewing mode is transitioned to a split-screen view such that the primary application is shown within a first display area and a plurality of applications are shown within a second display area adjacent to the first display area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Publication date: June 5, 2014
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Pilar Ariella Strutin-Belinoff, Benjamin Andrew Rottler, Gregore Robert Arroyo, Itai Vonshak
  • Patent number: 8686955
    Abstract: A method of managing user interface content, including performing character entry without a keyboard, is disclosed. The method includes displaying a character entry area and a character selection indicia, wherein the character selection indicia is displayed at a first predefined location, and the character selection indicia includes locations corresponding to respective characters in a plurality of characters; detecting a point of contact over the character selection indicia; in response to detecting the contact over the character selection indicia, displaying at a second predefined location distinct from the first predefined location a temporary character that represents a character to be selected; while displaying the temporary character, detecting a character selection gesture; and, in response to detecting the character selection gesture, selecting a character corresponding to the temporary character for placement in the character entry area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffery Theodore Lee, Benjamin Andrew Rottler
  • Patent number: 8595645
    Abstract: A method, performed at a portable electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface, includes displaying a list of items on the display. The method also includes displaying an item in the list with just a portion of the item visible on the display. The method further includes detecting a first gesture on the touch-sensitive surface at a location that corresponds to the item. The method further includes, in response to detecting the first gesture, marquee scrolling the item in a predefined marquee scrolling direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jesse William Boettcher, Benjamin Andrew Rottler, Policarpo Bonilla Wood, Jr., Bryan J. James, Jorge Fino, Eugene Dvortsov