Patents by Inventor Daniel C. Wiggins

Daniel C. Wiggins 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: 20250389979
    Abstract: A portable eyewear electronic device that includes a speaker module and methods of assembly of the device are presented. The electronic eyewear device includes a speaker module that emits acoustic radiation that is channeled through a carrier contained within a temple to one or more acoustic ports near a user's ear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2025
    Publication date: December 25, 2025
    Inventors: Dillon Johnson, Daniel C. Wiggins
  • Patent number: 12495271
    Abstract: Example systems, devices, media, and methods are described for efficiently processing an audio track of a virtual object with a head-related transfer function (HRTF). Audio tracks are processed by determining a current position (direction and optionally distance) of the virtual object with respect to the head of a user, identifying a current audio zone from predefined audio zones responsive to the determined current position where each of the audio zones has a corresponding left predefined filter and a corresponding right predefined filter, applying the left and the right predefined filters corresponding to the current audio zone to the audio track to produce a left audio signal and a right audio signal, and presenting the left audio signal with a first speaker and the right audio signal with a second speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2025
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Ashwani Arya, Tejas Bahulkar, Dunxu Hu, Daniel C. Wiggins
  • Patent number: 12422698
    Abstract: A portable eyewear electronic device that includes a speaker module and methods of assembly of the device are presented. The electronic eyewear device includes a speaker module that emits acoustic radiation that is channeled through a carrier contained within a temple to one or more acoustic ports near a user's ear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2025
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Dillon Johnson, Daniel C. Wiggins
  • Publication number: 20250203315
    Abstract: An electronic eyewear device includes a display and a speaker system adapted to present augment reality objects and associated sounds in a scene being viewed by the user. A processor receives one or more audio tracks respectively associated with one or more augmented reality objects, encodes the audio tracks into an aggregated audio track including the audio tracks, a header for each audio track that uniquely identifies each respective audio track, and an aggregate header that identifies the number of tracks in the aggregated audio track. The processor transfers the aggregated audio track to an audio processor that uses the header for each audio track and the aggregate header to separate the audio tracks from the aggregated audio track. The audio processor processes the audio tracks independently in parallel and provides the audio tracks to the speaker system for presentation with the augmented reality objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2025
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Ashwani Arya, Tejas Bahulkar, Daniel Harris, Daniel C. Wiggins
  • Patent number: 12267667
    Abstract: An electronic eyewear device includes a display and a speaker system adapted to present augment reality objects and associated sounds in a scene being viewed by the user. A processor receives one or more audio tracks respectively associated with one or more augmented reality objects, encodes the audio tracks into an aggregated audio track including the audio tracks, a header for each audio track that uniquely identifies each respective audio track, and an aggregate header that identifies the number of tracks in the aggregated audio track. The processor transfers the aggregated audio track to an audio processor that uses the header for each audio track and the aggregate header to separate the audio tracks from the aggregated audio track. The audio processor processes the audio tracks independently in parallel and provides the audio tracks to the speaker system for presentation with the augmented reality objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Ashwani Arya, Tejas Bahulkar, Daniel Harris, Daniel C. Wiggins
  • Publication number: 20240361617
    Abstract: A portable eyewear electronic device that includes a speaker module and methods of assembly of the device are presented. The electronic eyewear device includes a speaker module that emits acoustic radiation that is channeled through a carrier contained within a temple to one or more acoustic ports near a user's ear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Dillon Johnson, Daniel C. Wiggins
  • Publication number: 20240298138
    Abstract: An electronic eyewear device includes a display and a speaker system adapted to present augment reality objects and associated sounds in a scene being viewed by the user. A processor receives one or more audio tracks respectively associated with one or more augmented reality objects, encodes the audio tracks into an aggregated audio track including the audio tracks, a header for each audio track that uniquely identifies each respective audio track, and an aggregate header that identifies the number of tracks in the aggregated audio track. The processor transfers the aggregated audio track to an audio processor that uses the header for each audio track and the aggregate header to separate the audio tracks from the aggregated audio track. The audio processor processes the audio tracks independently in parallel and provides the audio tracks to the speaker system for presentation with the augmented reality objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Inventors: Ashwani Arya, Tejas Bahulkar, Daniel Harris, Daniel C. Wiggins
  • Patent number: 12061379
    Abstract: A portable eyewear electronic device that includes a speaker module and methods of assembly of the device are presented. The electronic eyewear device includes a speaker module that emits acoustic radiation that is channeled through a carrier contained within a temple to one or more acoustic ports near a user's ear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Dillon Johnson, Daniel C. Wiggins
  • Patent number: 12010505
    Abstract: An electronic eyewear device includes a display and a speaker system adapted to present augment reality objects and associated sounds in a scene being viewed by the user. A processor receives one or more audio tracks respectively associated with one or more augmented reality objects, encodes the audio tracks into an aggregated audio track including the audio tracks, a header for each audio track that uniquely identifies each respective audio track, and an aggregate header that identifies the number of tracks in the aggregated audio track. The processor transfers the aggregated audio track to an audio processor that uses the header for each audio track and the aggregate header to separate the audio tracks from the aggregated audio track. The audio processor processes the audio tracks independently in parallel and provides the audio tracks to the speaker system for presentation with the augmented reality objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Ashwani Arya, Tejas Bahulkar, Daniel Harris, Daniel C. Wiggins
  • Publication number: 20240187814
    Abstract: Example systems, devices, media, and methods are described for efficiently processing an audio track of a virtual object with a head-related transfer function (HRTF). Audio tracks are processed by determining a current position (direction and optionally distance) of the virtual object with respect to the head of a user, identifying a current audio zone from predefined audio zones responsive to the determined current position where each of the audio zones has a corresponding left predefined filter and a corresponding right predefined filter, applying the left and the right predefined filters corresponding to the current audio zone to the audio track to produce a left audio signal and a right audio signal, and presenting the left audio signal with a first speaker and the right audio signal with a second speaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2024
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Ashwani Arya, Tejas Bahulkar, Dunxu Hu, Daniel C. Wiggins
  • Patent number: 11889291
    Abstract: Example systems, devices, media, and methods are described for efficiently processing an audio track of a virtual object with a head-related transfer function (HRTF). Audio tracks are processed by determining a current position (direction and optionally distance) of the virtual object with respect to the head of a user, identifying a current audio zone from predefined audio zones responsive to the determined current position where each of the audio zones has a corresponding left predefined filter and a corresponding right predefined filter, applying the left and the right predefined filters corresponding to the current audio zone to the audio track to produce a left audio signal and a right audio signal, and presenting the left audio signal with a first speaker and the right audio signal with a second speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Ashwani Arya, Tejas Bahulkar, Dunxu Hu, Daniel C. Wiggins
  • Publication number: 20230185113
    Abstract: A portable eyewear electronic device that includes a speaker module and methods of assembly of the device are presented. The electronic eyewear device includes a speaker module that emits acoustic radiation that is channeled through a carrier contained within a temple to one or more acoustic ports near a user's ear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Dillon Johnson, Daniel C. Wiggins
  • Patent number: 11598979
    Abstract: A portable eyewear electronic device that includes a speaker module and methods of assembly of the device are presented. The electronic eyewear device includes a speaker module that emits acoustic radiation that is channeled through a carrier contained within a temple to one or more acoustic ports near a user's ear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Dillon Johnson, Daniel C. Wiggins
  • Publication number: 20230017052
    Abstract: Example systems, devices, media, and methods are described for efficiently processing an audio track of a virtual object with a head-related transfer function (HRTF). Audio tracks are processed by determining a current position (direction and optionally distance) of the virtual object with respect to the head of a user, identifying a current audio zone from predefined audio zones responsive to the determined current position where each of the audio zones has a corresponding left predefined filter and a corresponding right predefined filter, applying the left and the right predefined filters corresponding to the current audio zone to the audio track to produce a left audio signal and a right audio signal, and presenting the left audio signal with a first speaker and the right audio signal with a second speaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Ashwani Arya, Tejas Bahulkar, Dunxu Hu, Daniel C. Wiggins
  • Patent number: 11540425
    Abstract: A cooling device generating unidirectional air flow to cool an electrical component. The cooling device is an equivalent of an electrical acoustic diode to make air flow only one direction. A speaker generates air flow in a first passageway to a cavity, and then expels air out from the cavity through a second passageway. An electrical component is cooled by the air flow, and may be positioned adjacent the passageways, or positioned in the cavity. In one example, eyewear having an electrical component positioned in a temple is cooled by the cooling device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Andrea Ashwood, Dillon Johnson, Daniel C. Wiggins
  • Publication number: 20220377491
    Abstract: An electronic eyewear device includes a display and a speaker system adapted to present augment reality objects and associated sounds in a scene being viewed by the user. A processor receives one or more audio tracks respectively associated with one or more augmented reality objects, encodes the audio tracks into an aggregated audio track including the audio tracks, a header for each audio track that uniquely identifies each respective audio track, and an aggregate header that identifies the number of tracks in the aggregated audio track. The processor transfers the aggregated audio track to an audio processor that uses the header for each audio track and the aggregate header to separate the audio tracks from the aggregated audio track. The audio processor processes the audio tracks independently in parallel and provides the audio tracks to the speaker system for presentation with the augmented reality objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Ashwani Arya, Tejas Bahulkar, Daniel Harris, Daniel C. Wiggins
  • Patent number: 11496852
    Abstract: Example systems, devices, media, and methods are described for efficiently processing an audio track of a virtual object with a head-related transfer function (HRTF). Audio tracks are processed by determining a current position (direction and optionally distance) of the virtual object with respect to the head of a user, identifying a current audio zone from predefined audio zones responsive to the determined current position where each of the audio zones has a corresponding left predefined filter and a corresponding right predefined filter, applying the left and the right predefined filters corresponding to the current audio zone to the audio track to produce a left audio signal and a right audio signal, and presenting the left audio signal with a first speaker and the right audio signal with a second speaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Ashwani Arya, Tejas Bahulkar, Dunxu Hu, Daniel C. Wiggins
  • Publication number: 20220182778
    Abstract: Example systems, devices, media, and methods are described for efficiently processing an audio track of a virtual object with a head-related transfer function (HRTF). Audio tracks are processed by determining a current position (direction and optionally distance) of the virtual object with respect to the head of a user, identifying a current audio zone from predefined audio zones responsive to the determined current position where each of the audio zones has a corresponding left predefined filter and a corresponding right predefined filter, applying the left and the right predefined filters corresponding to the current audio zone to the audio track to produce a left audio signal and a right audio signal, and presenting the left audio signal with a first speaker and the right audio signal with a second speaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Ashwani Arya, Tejas Bahulkar, Dunxu Hu, Daniel C. Wiggins
  • Publication number: 20210399574
    Abstract: A remotely controlled switching module that provides switching and preferably dimming functions for one or more AC or DC power distribution lines. The inventive module is preferably sized to fit within existing outlet and switch boxes, while still leaving enough room for the conventional components that are also housed in such enclosures. Remote control is provided wirelessly—preferably using an existing wireless communication protocol. Local control is preferably also provided for the inventive switching module. Local control inputs preferably allow control via existing components—such as two-pole light switches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Applicant: Metra Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel C. Wiggins, Thomas E. Burgess, Benjamin Webster
  • Publication number: 20210378152
    Abstract: A cooling device generating unidirectional air flow to cool an electrical component. The cooling device is an equivalent of an electrical acoustic diode to make air flow only one direction. A speaker generates air flow in a first passageway to a cavity, and then expels air out from the cavity through a second passageway. An electrical component is cooled by the air flow, and may be positioned adjacent the passageways, or positioned in the cavity. In one example, eyewear having an electrical component positioned in a temple is cooled by the cooling device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Andrea Ashwood, Dillon Johnson, Daniel C. Wiggins