Patents by Inventor CHRISTOPHER BROADDUS

CHRISTOPHER BROADDUS 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).

  • Publication number: 20160246384
    Abstract: Visual gestures in a display device allow a user to select and activate features in a display of the display device. A sensor of the display device tracks an eye gaze of a user directed at a display of the display device. A visual gesture module identifies a predefined trigger zone in the display. A virtual object application displays a virtual object in the display based on the eye gaze of the user and the predefined trigger zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventors: BRIAN MULLINS, MATTHEW KAMMERAIT, CHRISTOPHER BROADDUS, STERLING CRISPIN, LUCAS KAZANSKY
  • Publication number: 20140037137
    Abstract: The present system provides an on the fly simple to complex 6DOF registration approach using the direct method. On the fly means it does not require training time, a user points a phone/camera to a planar surface and can start tracking it instantly. Simple to complex means the system performs registration in multiple levels of complexity from 2DOF to 6DOF. By increasing the complexity model the system enables more surfaces to be tracked and for surfaces that are tracked the system can avoid local minima solution providing a more robust and accurate 6DOF tracking. Even surfaces that are very weak in features can be tracked in 6DOF and virtual content can be registered to them. The system enables playing Augmented Reality games on low-end devices such as mobile phones on almost any surface in the real world.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Inventors: CHRISTOPHER BROADDUS, Andriy Grygorenko, Netanel Hagbi, Oriel Y. Bergig