Patents by Inventor Clayton Woodward Bavor, Jr.

Clayton Woodward Bavor, Jr. 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: 20240073571
    Abstract: A method of generating a virtual microphone array according including identifying a plurality of microphones, identifying a relative position in space of each of the plurality of microphones, generating a virtual microphone array based on the plurality of microphones and the relative position in space of each of the plurality of microphones, sensing audio at each of the plurality of microphones, and generating an audio signal of the virtual microphone array based on the sensed audio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Clayton Woodward Bavor, JR., Alex Olwal
  • Patent number: 11887513
    Abstract: Techniques include performing a display calibration while a smartglasses device is stored in a case that enables the smartglasses device to perform display calibrations. The case includes an optical device configured to form an image of a test pattern formed in a first display and a second display of the smartglasses device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Clayton Woodward Bavor, Jr., Steven Benjamin Goldberg, Zhiheng Jia
  • Publication number: 20230245603
    Abstract: Techniques include performing a display calibration while a smartglasses device is stored in a case that enables the smartglasses device to perform display calibrations. The case includes an optical device configured to form an image of a test pattern formed in a first display and a second display of the smartglasses device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Clayton Woodward Bavor, JR., Steven Benjamin Goldberg, Zhiheng Jia
  • Patent number: 11100714
    Abstract: An example technique may include performing, by a virtual reality application provided on a computing device, video rendering at a first video rendering rate based on updating an entire image on a screen of the computing device at a first update rate, determining that a performance of the video rendering is less than a threshold, performing, based on the determining, video rendering at a second video rendering rate by updating a first portion of the image at the first update rate, and by updating a second portion of the image at a second update rate that is less than the first update rate. Another example technique may include shifting, during an eye blinking period, one or both of a left eye image and a right eye image to reduce a disparity between a left viewed object and a right viewed object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Clayton Woodward Bavor, Jr., Joshua Weaver, Alexander James Faaborg, Eliezer Peli
  • Patent number: 10509865
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for producing a representation of a display of a three-dimensional virtual reality environment and defining a dress form object within the virtual reality environment. The virtual reality environment is configured to receive interactive commands from at least one input device coupled to a computing device and associated with a user. Fabric movement simulations are generated by animating the dress form object according to configured animation data and displayed in the virtual reality environment. The display being may be generated in response to receiving a movement pattern indicating movement of the dress form object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Ryan Hackett, Clayton Woodward Bavor, Jr., Andrey Doronichev
  • Patent number: 10347053
    Abstract: Techniques disclosed herein involve adaptively or dynamically displaying virtual objects in a virtual reality (VR) environment, and representations, within the VR environment, of physical objects in the physical environment, i.e., outside the VR environment, in order to alert users within the VR environment. For example, if a projected movement of a user indicates that the user will move close to a physical object in the physical world, the representation of the physical object changes from an un-displayed state, in which the physical object is not visible in the VR environment, to a displayed state in which the physical object is at least partially depicted inside the VR environment. In this way, what is displayed inside the VR environment can include both virtual objects as well representations of physical objects from the physical space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Chris McKenzie, Adam Glazier, Clayton Woodward Bavor, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20190206139
    Abstract: An example technique may include performing, by a virtual reality application provided on a computing device, video rendering at a first video rendering rate based on updating an entire image on a screen of the computing device at a first update rate, determining that a performance of the video rendering is less than a threshold, performing, based on the determining, video rendering at a second video rendering rate by updating a first portion of the image at the first update rate, and by updating a second portion of the image at a second update rate that is less than the first update rate. Another example technique may include shifting, during an eye blinking period, one or both of a left eye image and a right eye image to reduce a disparity between a left viewed object and a right viewed object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Clayton Woodward Bavor, JR., Joshua Weaver, Alexander James Faaborg, Eliezer Peli
  • Patent number: 10229540
    Abstract: An example technique may include performing, by a virtual reality application provided on a computing device, video rendering at a first video rendering rate based on updating an entire image on a screen of the computing device at a first update rate, determining that a performance of the video rendering is less than a threshold, performing, based on the determining, video rendering at a second video rendering rate by updating a first portion of the image at the first update rate, and by updating a second portion of the image at a second update rate that is less than the first update rate. Another example technique may include shifting, during an eye blinking period, one or both of a left eye image and a right eye image to reduce a disparity between a left viewed object and a right viewed object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Clayton Woodward Bavor, Jr., Joshua Weaver, Alexander James Faaborg, Eliezer Peli
  • Patent number: 10112706
    Abstract: A mobile telepresence system may include a frame, a propulsion system operably coupled to the frame to propel the frame through a designated space, a screen movably coupled to the frame, and an image output device coupled to the frame. The frame may include a central body defining a longitudinal axis of the frame, a first arm at a first end portion of the central body, and a second arm at a second end portion of the central body, opposite the first end portion of the central body. The propulsion system may include rotors at opposite end portions of the first and second arms which propel the frame in response to an external command. The image output device may project an image onto the screen in response to an external command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: X Development LLC
    Inventors: Clark Sopper, Adam Woodward, Clayton Woodward Bavor, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10102674
    Abstract: In one general aspect, a system for providing a virtual reality (VR) space can include a mobile computing device, and a VR headset operatively coupled to the mobile computing device and including a screen. The mobile computing device can be configured to execute a VR application, and provide content for display on the screen of the VR headset in the VR space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Nartker, Clayton Woodward Bavor, Jr., Alexander James Faaborg, Glen Murphy, Andrey Doronichev, Christian Plagemann, Shiqi Chen, Jon Michael Wiley, Manuel Christian Clement, Murphy Stein, Samuel Mark Matson
  • Publication number: 20170337750
    Abstract: Techniques disclosed herein involve adaptively or dynamically displaying virtual objects in a virtual reality (VR) environment, and representations, within the VR environment, of physical objects in the physical environment, i.e., outside the VR environment, in order to alert users within the VR environment. For example, if a projected movement of a user indicates that the user will move close to a physical object in the physical world, the representation of the physical object changes from an un-displayed state, in which the physical object is not visible in the VR environment, to a displayed state in which the physical object is at least partially depicted inside the VR environment. In this way, what is displayed inside the VR environment can include both virtual objects as well representations of physical objects from the physical space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Chris McKenzie, Adam Glazier, Clayton Woodward Bavor, JR.
  • Publication number: 20170178408
    Abstract: An example technique may include performing, by a virtual reality application provided on a computing device, video rendering at a first video rendering rate based on updating an entire image on a screen of the computing device at a first update rate, determining that a performance of the video rendering is less than a threshold, performing, based on the determining, video rendering at a second video rendering rate by updating a first portion of the image at the first update rate, and by updating a second portion of the image at a second update rate that is less than the first update rate. Another example technique may include shifting, during an eye blinking period, one or both of a left eye image and a right eye image to reduce a disparity between a left viewed object and a right viewed object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Clayton Woodward BAVOR, JR., Joshua WEAVER, Alexander James FAABORG, Eliezer PELI
  • Publication number: 20170029098
    Abstract: A mobile telepresence system may include a frame, a propulsion system operably coupled to the frame to propel the frame through a designated space, a screen movably coupled to the frame, and an image output device coupled to the frame. The frame may include a central body defining a longitudinal axis of the frame, a first arm at a first end portion of the central body, and a second arm at a second end portion of the central body, opposite the first end portion of the central body. The propulsion system may include rotors at opposite end portions of the first and second arms which propel the frame in response to an external command. The image output device may project an image onto the screen in response to an external command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Clark Sopper, Adam Woodworth, Clayton Woodward Bavor, JR.
  • Publication number: 20160370971
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for producing a representation of a display of a three-dimensional virtual reality environment and defining a dress form object within the virtual reality environment. The virtual reality environment is configured to receive interactive commands from at least one input device coupled to a computing device and associated with a user. Fabric movement simulations are generated by animating the dress form object according to configured animation data and displayed in the virtual reality environment. The display being may be generated in response to receiving a movement pattern indicating movement of the dress form object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Patrick Ryan HACKETT, Clayton Woodward BAVOR, JR., Andrey DORONICHEV
  • Publication number: 20160267712
    Abstract: In one general aspect, a system for providing a virtual reality (VR) space can include a mobile computing device, and a VR headset operatively coupled to the mobile computing device and including a screen. The mobile computing device can be configured to execute a VR application, and provide content for display on the screen of the VR headset in the VR space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Andrew Nartker, Clayton Woodward Bavor, JR., Alexander James Faaborg, Glen Murphy, Andrey Doronichev, Christian Plagemann, Shiqi Chen, Jon Michael Wiley, Manuel Christian Clement, Murphy Stein, Samuel Mark Matson
  • Patent number: 9409645
    Abstract: A mobile telepresence system may include a frame, a propulsion system operably coupled to the frame to propel the frame through a designated space, a screen movably coupled to the frame, and an image output device coupled to the frame. The frame may include a central body defining a longitudinal axis of the frame, a first arm at a first end portion of the central body, and a second arm at a second end portion of the central body, opposite the first end portion of the central body. The propulsion system may include rotors at opposite end portions of the first and second arms which propel the frame in response to an external command. The image output device may project an image onto the screen in response to an external command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Google, Inc.
    Inventors: Clark Sopper, Adam Woodworth, Clayton Woodward Bavor, Jr.