Patents by Inventor Christopher Carmichael

Christopher Carmichael 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: 11290644
    Abstract: A 360° view of an area is obtained by stitching together multiple images each of the images obtained at a different point of view. One of the points of view or each one of the points of view receives different angled views of different features in the image. Each feature in the image is therefore imaged from multiple different angles. The images are stitched together into a three-dimensional panorama which is optimized for display on a display where one image is intended for users left eye and another image is intended for the users right eye. The left eye sees features of the image from one field of view, and the right eye sees features of that same image from a different field of view, where each field in the image is shown to the different eyes at different points of view. Therefore, the different eyes perceive different parts of the depth of the image. And that last part into the specification and maybe into the claims.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Inventor: Christopher Carmichael
  • Patent number: 11200743
    Abstract: A virtual-reality that includes multiple different features therein, those features arranged in a combined wall. The user can select from the multiple features by looking at the features for a specified amount of time for example 3 seconds. One embodiment uses a wall which combines together a number of feeds from a number of social networks. Another embodiment uses a wall that is cylindrical or spherical around the user, and a system that detects which post or item the user is looking at. When the user looks at a poster item for more than the specified amount of time, additional information about that poster item pops up. For example the user can look it up icon representing their friend, and get information about their friend including the ability to message the friend, posts that the friend has made, and other information about the friend. There can also be navigation pains in places in the virtual-reality cylinder or sphere which enables navigating using a different kind of menu.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Inventor: Christopher Carmichael
  • Publication number: 20200058086
    Abstract: An Iconsent application allows a user to obtain the users consent to some action, to verify identities of one or both users to the action, to find a proper form to obtain the consent, and finally to record the users' consent along with the biometric obtained at the time of the content. The consent can be given by one or both parties to the transaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Christopher Carmichael, Connie Jordan Carmichael
  • Publication number: 20180376060
    Abstract: A 360° view of an area is obtained by stitching together multiple images each of the images obtained at a different point of view. One of the points of view or each one of the points of view receives different angled views of different features in the image. Each feature in the image is therefore imaged from multiple different angles. The images are stitched together into a three-dimensional panorama which is optimized for display on a display where one image is intended for users left eye and another image is intended for the users right eye. The left eye sees features of the image from one field of view, and the right eye sees features of that same image from a different field of view, where each field in the image is shown to the different eyes at different points of view. Therefore, the different eyes perceive different parts of the depth of the image. And that last part into the specification and maybe into the claims.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventor: Christopher Carmichael
  • Publication number: 20180285924
    Abstract: An image is evaluated to determine locations in the image that have more contextually relevant objects. This is done by monitoring the eyeball location of a number of different people who look at the image. The image can be for example 360 image, or can just be an image with a number of different objects in it. The parts of the image which are more contextually relevant become areas where advertisements will be located. The advertisements can be located associated with the content of the contextually relevant part of the image, or unassociated with that part, for example in associated with the geo-fenced location of the image. The most contextually relevant parts of the image can also be surrounded with a perimeter, preventing the advertisement from being displayed within the perimeter, and thus maintaining the high relevance of the highly relevant areas in the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventor: Christopher Carmichael
  • Publication number: 20180286133
    Abstract: A virtual-reality that includes multiple different features therein, those features arranged in a combined wall. The user can select from the multiple features by looking at the features for a specified amount of time for example 3 seconds. One embodiment uses a wall which combines together a number of feeds from a number of social networks. Another embodiment uses a wall that is cylindrical or spherical around the user, and a system that detects which post or item the user is looking at. When the user looks at a poster item for more than the specified amount of time, additional information about that poster item pops up. For example the user can look it up icon representing their friend, and get information about their friend including the ability to message the friend, posts that the friend has made, and other information about the friend. There can also be navigation pains in places in the virtual-reality cylinder or sphere which enables navigating using a different kind of menu.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventor: Christopher Carmichael
  • Patent number: 9986390
    Abstract: A video cell phone messenger that provides caller ID streaming with sound and/or video, and provides a virtual greeting that users get when a call or text. A customized message is sent as part of an outgoing communication to another user who is being contacted by the user, in place of a numerical caller ID. The phone also sends text messages, and a second picture and sound forms a second customized message for texts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Inventor: Christopher Carmichael
  • Patent number: 9648114
    Abstract: Multiple different social networks are aggregated and placed together on a timeline. The timeline is arranged such that at any given time the user can see what information from each of the social networks was provided. The timeline is arranged in a two-dimensional grid, with the horizontal grid showing time, and the vertical grid showing the type, where the type can be video, text, wall posts, and photos. The user can select which of their friends information to appear on the timeline and can also select which of multiple different social network type sites provide content to the timeline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: Ubiquity Broadcasting Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Carmichael, Connie Jordan, Devon Jordan, Desoto Donovan
  • Patent number: 9438962
    Abstract: A system which correlates across multiple images to find commonalities among the images and compresses according to those commonalities. The commonalities can be across multiple different images which are unrelated. The information is quantized according to the client that will display the images, and then, and luminance in common color areas are encoded as a single encoding. A WAP application may also be downloaded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: UBIQUITY
    Inventors: Kenneth Stephen Bailey, Christopher Carmichael
  • Patent number: 9106925
    Abstract: Compression of a video by segmentation, transformation, transform encoding, difference encoding, and muxing. The segmentation looks at energies of the frames, in order to find three different things: black frames which have energy less than the specified amount, consecutive frames which have energy difference is less than the specified amount, and changes in scene which have energy difference is more than a specified amount. If there is little or no energy or energy difference, then the frame is replaced by an indication rather than information about the frame itself; either an indication of a black frames or an indication of no change between two adjacent frames. If there is much energy, then this is taken as the beginning of a new scene, and used as an area to change group of frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Ubiquity Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Carmichael, Connie Jordan, Kristian Sandberg
  • Patent number: 8983535
    Abstract: Medical device that scans medical parameters and communicates via a cell phone. The cell phone can communicate the parameters to a remote location and/or or can analyze them. The medical device can be powered by the cell phone or can be wireless. A relatively large area for a pad that forms the surface area that determines the medical information can thus be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Ubiquity Broadcasting Corporation
    Inventors: Connie Jordan, Christopher Carmichael
  • Patent number: 8929434
    Abstract: Image or video from a cell phone is processed to expand the image in a way to display it on a high definition video screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Ubiquity Broadcasting Corporation
    Inventors: Kenneth Stephen Bailey, Christopher Carmichael
  • Publication number: 20150003511
    Abstract: A compression system using supercompression.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2011
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventors: Christopher Carmichael, Connie Jordan, Kristian Sandberg
  • Publication number: 20140289678
    Abstract: The sprocket shaped menu accepts except selections of information from the menu, where selecting an item in the menu causes other parts of the look of the menu to change. In one embodiment, this can cause a break in the menu which shows a preview. In another embodiment, touching an item on the menu can cause an automatic update of the other items unless those other items have been automatically updated within a predetermined time before, such as within 15 minutes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: Christopher Carmichael, Connie Jordan
  • Publication number: 20140250185
    Abstract: Multiple different social networks are aggregated and placed together on a timeline. The timeline is arranged such that at any given time the user can see what information from each of the social networks was provided. The timeline is arranged in a two-dimensional grid, with the horizontal grid showing time, and the vertical grid showing the type, where the type can be video, text, wall posts, and photos. The user can select which of their friends information to appear on the timeline and can also select which of multiple different social network type sites provide content to the timeline.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2014
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: Ubiquity Broadcasting Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Carmichael, Connie Jordan, Devon Jordan, Desoto Donovan
  • Patent number: 8677280
    Abstract: The sprocket shaped menu accepts selections of information from the menu, where selecting an item in the menu causes other parts of the look of the menu to change. In one embodiment, this can cause a break in the menu which shows a preview. In another embodiment, touching an item on the menu can cause an automatic update of the other items unless those other items have been automatically updated within a predetermined time before, such as within 15 minutes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Ubiquity Broadcasting Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Carmichael, Connie Jordan
  • Publication number: 20140074590
    Abstract: The invention is directed to systems and Methods for immersive advertising on a wide area network, such as the Internet or World Wide Web. Immersive advertisements are customized presentations developed and imbedded within the body of web content. They can take the form of non-static images imbedded within a configurable primary image model or they can be a non-configurable, highly stylized, and animated component imbedded within the content of a web page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: UBIQUITY BROADCASTING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Connie Jordan, Christopher Carmichael, Gregory Crotty
  • Publication number: 20130281158
    Abstract: Video clips are stored and converted on a website into different formats which are compatible with different cellular phones. The source for the video can be sources such as DVDs, other cellular phones, or broadcast television. The system can automatically store profiles from multiple different phones and automatically carry out a conversion based on information stored in the profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: Ubiquity Broadcasting Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Carmichael, Kenneth Steven Bailey
  • Patent number: 8533632
    Abstract: The invention is directed to systems and Methods for immersive advertising on a wide area network, such as the Internet or World Wide Web. Immersive advertisements are customized presentations developed and imbedded within the body of web content. They can take the form of non-static images imbedded within a configurable primary image model or they can be a non-configurable, highly stylized, and animated component imbedded within the content of a web page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Ubiquity Broadcasting Corporation
    Inventors: Connie Jordan, Christopher Carmichael, Gregory Crotty
  • Patent number: 8527906
    Abstract: The invention is directed to systems and Methods for immersive advertising on a wide area network, such as the Internet or World Wide Web. Immersive advertisements are customized presentations developed and imbedded within the body of web content. They can take the form of non-static images imbedded within a configurable primary image model or they can be a non-configurable, highly stylized, and animated component imbedded within the content of a web page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Ubiquity Broadcasting Corporation
    Inventors: Connie Jordan, Christopher Carmichael, Gregory Crotty