Patents by Inventor Cole Parker Heiner

Cole Parker Heiner 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: 11294461
    Abstract: Examples of systems and methods for interacting with content and updating the location and orientation of that content using a single controller. The system may allow a user to use the same controller for moving content around the room and interacting with that content by tracking a range of the motion of the controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Karen Stolzenberg, Marc Alan McCall, Frank Alexander Hamilton, IV, Cole Parker Heiner, John Austin Day, Eric Norman Yiskis
  • Publication number: 20220100266
    Abstract: A wearable computing system that includes a head-mounted display implements a gaze timer feature for enabling the user to temporarily extend the functionality of a handheld controller or other user input device. In one embodiment, when the user gazes at, or in the vicinity of, a handheld controller for a predetermined period of time, the functionality of one or more input elements (e.g., buttons) of the handheld controller is temporarily modified. For example, the function associated with a particular controller button may be modified to enable the user to open a particular menu using the button. The gaze timer feature may, for example, be used to augment the functionality of a handheld controller or other user input device during mixed reality and/or augmented reality sessions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Karen Stolzenberg, Marc Alan McCall, Frank Alexander Hamilton, IV, Cole Parker Heiner, John Austin Day
  • Patent number: 11276248
    Abstract: A mixed reality system is disclosed that displays 3D content in a container referred to as a “prism,” and also displays a related content item, such as an interactive menu for interacting with the 3D content. To maintain the content item accessible to the user, the system repositions the content item relative to the prism as the user moves relative to the prism. For example, in the context of an annotation toolbar, the system may move the toolbar from one surface of the prism to another in response to the user walking around the prism, entering the prism, or changing a head pose in the prism. In some embodiments, the content item is displayed in a reserved region in which the 3D content is not displayable, such that the 3D content does not interfere with the user's ability to view and access the content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Rohit Anil Talwalkar, Cole Parker Heiner
  • Patent number: 11226678
    Abstract: A wearable computing system that includes a head-mounted display implements a gaze timer feature for enabling the user to temporarily extend the functionality of a handheld controller or other user input device. In one embodiment, when the user gazes at, or in the vicinity of, a handheld controller for a predetermined period of time, the functionality of one or more input elements (e.g., buttons) of the handheld controller is temporarily modified. For example, the function associated with a particular controller button may be modified to enable the user to open a particular menu using the button. The gaze timer feature may, for example, be used to augment the functionality of a handheld controller or other user input device during mixed reality and/or augmented reality sessions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Karen Stolzenberg, Marc Alan McCall, Frank Alexander Hamilton, IV, Cole Parker Heiner, John Austin Day
  • Publication number: 20210256769
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for enabling mixed reality collaboration. A method may include receiving persistent coordinate data; presenting a first virtual session handle to a first user at a first position via a transmissive display of a wearable device, wherein the first position is based on the persistent coordinate data; presenting a virtual object to the first user at a second location via the transmissive display, wherein the second position is based on the first position; receiving location data from a second user, wherein the location data relates a position of the second user to a position of a second virtual session handle; presenting a virtual avatar to the first user at a third position via the transmissive display, wherein the virtual avatar corresponds to the second user, wherein the third position is based on the location data, and wherein the third position is further based on the first position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Richard St. Clair BAILEY, Siddartha POTHAPRAGADA, Koichi MORI, Karen STOLZENBERG, Savannah NILES, Domingo NORIEGA-PADILLA, Cole Parker HEINER
  • Publication number: 20210256261
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for presenting and annotating virtual content. According to an example method, a virtual object is presented to a first user at a first position via a transmissive display of a wearable device. A first input is received from the first user. In response to receiving the first input, a virtual annotation is presented at a first displacement from the first position via the transmissive display. A first data is transmitted to a second user, the first data associated with the virtual annotation and the first displacement. A second input is received from the second user. In response to receiving the second input, the virtual annotation is presented to the first user at a second displacement from the first position via the transmissive display. Second data is transmitted to a remote server, the second data associated with the virtual object, the virtual annotation, the second displacement, and the first position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Yingnan WANG, Paulo William Cardoso MACIEL, Raul FERNANDEZ-HERNANDEZ, Cole Parker HEINER, Richard St. Clair BAILEY
  • Publication number: 20210248837
    Abstract: A mixed reality system is disclosed that displays 3D content in a container referred to as a “prism,” and also displays a related content item, such as an interactive menu for interacting with the 3D content. To maintain the content item accessible to the user, the system repositions the content item relative to the prism as the user moves relative to the prism. For example, in the context of an annotation toolbar, the system may move the toolbar from one surface of the prism to another in response to the user walking around the prism, entering the prism, or changing a head pose in the prism. In some embodiments, the content item is displayed in a reserved region in which the 3D content is not displayable, such that the 3D content does not interfere with the user's ability to view and access the content item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Rohit Anil Talwalkar, Cole Parker Heiner
  • Publication number: 20210232220
    Abstract: Examples of systems and methods for interacting with content and updating the location and orientation of that content using a single controller. The system may allow a user to use the same controller for moving content around the room and interacting with that content by tracking a range of the motion of the controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Karen Stolzenberg, Marc Alan McCall, Frank Alexander Hamilton, IV, Cole Parker Heiner, John Austin Day, Eric Norman Yiskis
  • Publication number: 20210232212
    Abstract: A wearable computing system that includes a head-mounted display implements a gaze timer feature for enabling the user to temporarily extend the functionality of a handheld controller or other user input device. In one embodiment, when the user gazes at, or in the vicinity of, a handheld controller for a predetermined period of time, the functionality of one or more input elements (e.g., buttons) of the handheld controller is temporarily modified. For example, the function associated with a particular controller button may be modified to enable the user to open a particular menu using the button. The gaze timer feature may, for example, be used to augment the functionality of a handheld controller or other user input device during mixed reality and/or augmented reality sessions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Karen Stolzenberg, Marc Alan McCall, Frank Alexander Hamilton, IV, Cole Parker Heiner, John Austin Day
  • Patent number: D910668
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Lorena Pazmino, Karen Stolzenberg, Cole Parker Heiner, Rose Mei Peng
  • Patent number: D910707
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Lorena Pazmino, Sarah Machicado, James M. Powderly, Karen Stolzenberg, Cole Parker Heiner, Isioma Osagbemwenorue Azu, Brian Everett Meaney, Megan Ann Geiman, Tim Zurmoehle, Andrea Isabel Montoya, Gregory Minh Tran, Amy Dedonato, William Wheeler, Kenneth Kian Ann Tay, Craig Erickson, Jonathan Lawrence Mann, Jonathan David Garn, Daryl Francis Tanghe, William Adams, Ian Michener Bradley
  • Patent number: D913311
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher David Nesladek, James M. Powderly, Cole Parker Heiner
  • Patent number: D918232
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Armistead Hoover, James M. Powderly, Lorena Pazmino, Gregory Minh Tran, Jonathan Lawrence Mann, Craig Erickson, Savannah Niles, Alysha Naples, Isioma Osagbemwenorue Azu, Cole Parker Heiner
  • Patent number: D920992
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Lorena Pazmino, James M. Powderly, Karen Stolzenberg, Cole Parker Heiner, Isioma Osagbemwenorue Azu, Tim Zurmoehle, Andrea Isabel Montoya, Gregory Minh Tran, Amy Dedonato, Craig Erickson, Jonathan Lawrence Mann, Spencer Davis
  • Patent number: D924266
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Lorena Pazmino, Gregory Minh Tran, Cole Parker Heiner, William Adams
  • Patent number: D924886
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Lorena Pazmino, Karen Stolzenberg, Cole Parker Heiner
  • Patent number: D924930
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Lorena Pazmino, Gregory Minh Tran, Cole Parker Heiner, William Adams
  • Patent number: D928809
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Armistead Hoover, James M. Powderly, Lorena Pazmino, Gregory Minh Tran, Jonathan Lawrence Mann, Craig Erickson, Savannah Niles, Alysha Naples, Isioma Osagbemwenorue Azu, Cole Parker Heiner
  • Patent number: D931873
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Lorena Pazmino, Karen Stolzenberg, Cole Parker Heiner
  • Patent number: D933095
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Cole Parker Heiner, Lorena Pazmino, Gregory Minh Tran, Paul Armistead Hoover