Patents by Inventor Conrad Verkler

Conrad Verkler 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).

  • Activity Surface Detection, Display and Enhancement of a Virtual Scene
    Publication number: 20210241513
    Abstract: Activity scene detection, display, and enhancement implementations are described. In an example implementation, a method includes displaying an animated character on a display of a computing device, detecting a tangible interface object on a physical activity scene proximate to the computing device, rendering a virtual interface object based on the tangible interface object, determining an interaction routine between the animated character and the virtual interface object, and executing the animation routine to animate on the display, an interaction between the animated character and the virtual interface object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Pramod Kumar Sharma, Jerome Scholler, Conrad Verkler
  • Activity surface detection, display and enhancement of a virtual scene
    Patent number: 10984576
    Abstract: Activity scene detection, display, and enhancement implementations are described. In an example implementation, a method includes displaying an animated character on a display of a computing device, detecting a tangible interface object on a physical activity scene proximate to the computing device, rendering a virtual interface object based on the tangible interface object, determining an interaction routine between the animated character and the virtual interface object, and executing the animation routine to animate on the display, an interaction between the animated character and the virtual interface object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Tangible Play, Inc.
    Inventors: Pramod Kumar Sharma, Jerome Scholler, Conrad Verkler
  • Activity Surface Detection, Display and Enhancement of a Virtual Scene
    Publication number: 20200250875
    Abstract: Activity scene detection, display, and enhancement implementations are described. In an example implementation, a method includes displaying an animated character on a display of a computing device, detecting a tangible interface object on a physical activity scene proximate to the computing device, rendering a virtual interface object based on the tangible interface object, determining an interaction routine between the animated character and the virtual interface object, and executing the animation routine to animate on the display, an interaction between the animated character and the virtual interface object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Pramod Kumar Sharma, Jerome Scholler, Conrad Verkler
  • Activity surface detection, display and enhancement of a virtual scene
    Patent number: 10657694
    Abstract: Activity scene detection, display, and enhancement implementations are described. In an example implementation, a method includes displaying an animated character on a display of a computing device, detecting a tangible interface object on a physical activity scene proximate to the computing device, rendering a virtual interface object based on the tangible interface object, determining an interaction routine between the animated character and the virtual interface object, and executing the animation routine to animate on the display, an interaction between the animated character and the virtual interface object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Tangible Play, Inc.
    Inventors: Pramod Kumar Sharma, Jerome Scholler, Conrad Verkler
  • Activity surface detection, display and enhancement
    Patent number: 10033943
    Abstract: Activity surface detection, display, and enhancement implementations are described. In an example implementation, a method determines, using a processor of a computing device, a traceable image and presenting the traceable image in an interface on a display of the computing device; captures, using a video capture device coupled to the computing device, a video stream of a physical activity surface proximate to the computing device; and displays, on the display of the computing device, the captured video stream overlaid with the traceable image in the interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Tangible Play, Inc.
    Inventors: Pramod Kumar Sharma, Jerome Scholler, Conrad Verkler
  • Activity Surface Detection, Display and Enhancement of a Virtual Scene
    Publication number: 20170206693
    Abstract: Activity scene detection, display, and enhancement implementations are described. In an example implementation, a method includes displaying an animated character on a display of a computing device, detecting a tangible interface object on a physical activity scene proximate to the computing device, rendering a virtual interface object based on the tangible interface object, determining an interaction routine between the animated character and the virtual interface object, and executing the animation routine to animate on the display, an interaction between the animated character and the virtual interface object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Inventors: Pramod Kumar Sharma, Jerome Scholler, Conrad Verkler