Patents by Inventor Dalton Thorn Flanagan

Dalton Thorn Flanagan 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: 12282376
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include (1) transferring control of a display of a computing device from a high-power physical processor of the computing device to a low-power physical processor of the computing device, (2) animating, using the low-power physical processor, the display at a first frame rate during a first time period, (3) animating, using the low-power physical processor, the display at a second frame rate during a second time period, (4) transferring control of the display from the low-power physical processor to the high-power physical processor, and (5) animating, using the high-power physical processor, the display. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Michiaki Kono, Dalton Thorn Flanagan, Allan Velzy
  • Publication number: 20240273824
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to an integration framework for two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) elements in an artificial reality (XR) environment. The 2D and 3D integration framework can implement a two-layered application programming interface (API) system, where a developer can use a declarative API to define nodes by executing pre-defined functions, and an imperative API defines to define node by specifying one or more functions for those nodes. The framework can traverse a component tree of such nodes to extract and add the 2D elements onto a 2D panel in a first pass. In a second pass, the framework can extract the 3D elements, and determine how the 2D and 3D elements translate into a 3D world view. Based on this determination, the framework can draw selected 2D and 3D elements into the 3D world view, which can be rendered in the XR environment on an XR device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Rohan MEHTA, Walter J. LUH, Eric GRIFFITH, Zeya PENG, Lucas SWITZER, Dalton Thorn FLANAGAN
  • Publication number: 20240192973
    Abstract: In some implementations, the disclosed systems and methods can compute the position of the user interface elements in three-dimensional space, project the position into two-dimensional camera space, and dynamically determine the scale of the user interface elements per frame as either static or dynamic based on the distance between the user and the virtual object. In some implementations, the disclosed systems and methods can simulate a three-dimensional (3D) XR experience on the 2D interface (such as a laptop, mobile phone, tablet, etc.), by placing a virtual XR head-mounted display (HMD) into the XR environment, and providing feeds of the field-of view of the virtual XR HMD to the 2D interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2024
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Moisés Ferrer SERRA, Mykyta LUTSENKO, Matthew James GALLOWAY, Walter J. LUH, Christopher LAW, Artur KUSHKA, Jean-Francois MULE, David TEITLEBAUM, Roman LESHCHINSKIY, Dalton Thorn FLANAGAN, Dony GEORGE, David Michael WOODWARD
  • Publication number: 20230068679
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include (1) transferring control of a display of a computing device from a high-power physical processor of the computing device to a low-power physical processor of the computing device, (2) animating, using the low-power physical processor, the display at a first frame rate during a first time period, (3) animating, using the low-power physical processor, the display at a second frame rate during a second time period, (4) transferring control of the display from the low-power physical processor to the high-power physical processor, and (5) animating, using the high-power physical processor, the display. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Michiaki Kono, Dalton Thorn Flanagan, Allan Velzy