Patents by Inventor Daniel L. Baker
Daniel L. Baker 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).
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Patent number: 12051239Abstract: Tracking an item of interest through an environment is described. Tracking the item of interest through the environment is accomplished using passive optical tracking where an item is identified in an image of the environment using image processing and various locations of the item are tracked through the environment. When a user wants to know an item's location, a location image is projected onto the location of the item to allow a user view a current location of the item.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2020Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Evan M. Goldberg, Mark R. Mine, Matthew Deuel, Daniel L. Baker, Dane M. Coffey, Steven M. Chapman
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Patent number: 11804007Abstract: An image processing system includes a computing platform having processing hardware, a display, and a system memory storing a software code. The processing hardware is configured to execute the software code to receive a three-dimensional (3D) digital model, surround the 3D digital model with multiple virtual cameras oriented toward the 3D digital model, and generate, using the virtual cameras, a multiple renders of the 3D digital model. The processing hardware is further configured to execute the software code to generate a UV texture coordinate space for a surface projection of the 3D digital model, and to transfer, using the multiple renders, lighting color values for each of multiple surface portions of the 3D digital model to the UV texture coordinate space.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Dane M. Coffey, Siroberto Scerbo, Evan M. Goldberg, Christopher Richard Schroers, Daniel L Baker, Mark R. Mine, Erika Varis Doggett
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Patent number: 11710272Abstract: An image processing system includes a computing platform having processing hardware, a display, and a system memory storing a software code. The processing hardware executes the software code to receive a digital object, surround the digital object with virtual cameras oriented toward the digital object, render, using each one of the virtual cameras, a depth map identifying a distance of that one of the virtual cameras from the digital object, and generate, using the depth map, a volumetric perspective of the digital object from a perspective of that one of the virtual cameras, resulting in multiple volumetric perspectives of the digital object. The processing hardware further executes the software code to merge the multiple volumetric perspectives of the digital object to form a volumetric representation of the digital object, and to convert the volumetric representation of the digital object to a renderable form.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Dane M. Coffey, Siroberto Scerbo, Daniel L. Baker, Mark R. Mine, Evan M. Goldberg
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Publication number: 20230221804Abstract: Systems and methods generating a haptic output response are disclosed. Video content is displayed on a display. A location of a user touch on the display is detected while the video content is being displayed. A region of interest in the video content is determined based on the location of the user touch. And a haptic output response is generated to a user. A characteristic of the haptic output response is determined using one or more characteristics of the region of interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2023Publication date: July 13, 2023Inventors: Evan M. Goldberg, Daniel L. Baker, Jackson A. Rogow
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Patent number: 11604516Abstract: A method includes displaying, on a touchscreen, a video comprising a video frame and determining, based on a saliency map of the video frame, a region of interest in the video frame. The method also includes detecting a touch on a region of the touchscreen while the video frame is displayed and generating a haptic response in response to determining that the region of the touchscreen overlaps with the region of interest.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2020Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Evan M. Goldberg, Daniel L. Baker, Jackson A. Rogow
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Patent number: 11587284Abstract: In one implementation, a virtual-world simulator includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing a software code, a tracking system communicatively coupled to the computing platform, and a projection device communicatively coupled to the computing platform. The hardware processor is configured to execute the software code to obtain a map of a geometry of a real-world venue including the virtual-world simulator, to identify one or more virtual effects for display in the real-world venue, and to use the tracking system to track a moving perspective of one of a user in the real-world venue or a camera in the real-world venue. The hardware processor is further configured to execute the software code to control the projection device to simulate a virtual-world by conforming the identified one or more virtual effects to the geometry of the real-world venue from a present vantage point of the tracked moving perspective.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Dane M. Coffey, Evan M. Goldberg, Steven M. Chapman, Daniel L. Baker, Matthew Deuel, Mark R. Mine
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Patent number: 11567723Abstract: The present disclosure describes a method for displaying supplemental content. The method includes determining environmental characteristics, e.g., wall space, empty areas, colors, etc., for a display environment, determining supplemental content based in part on a primary content displayed by a primary display, and displaying the supplemental content in the display environment.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Evan M. Goldberg, Daniel L. Baker, Steven M. Chapman, Dane M. Coffey, Matthew Deuel, Mark R. Mine
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Publication number: 20220314372Abstract: A method of making an enhanced cast iron workpiece having increased oil retention is provided. The method comprises providing a laser tool arranged to emit a laser to perform carbon burn-off from a cast iron workpiece. The cast iron workpiece comprises cast iron and having a first surface with carbon microstructures thereon. The method further comprises selectively laser burning-off carbon microstructures from the first surface of the workpiece to form a pattern on the first surface. The pattern has separate pockets by the laser burn-off of carbon microstructures on the first surface. Each separate pocket is separate from and free of fluid communication with any other pocket relative to the first surface to provide enhanced lubricant retention in each pocket on the first surface. The method further comprises heating the workpiece to between about 200° C. and about 400° C. to temper the first surface and cooling the workpiece to ambient temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2021Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventors: Benjamin E. Slattery, Daniel T. Berry, Daniel L. Baker, Frank D. Risko
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Publication number: 20220319104Abstract: An image processing system includes a computing platform having processing hardware, a display, and a system memory storing a software code. The processing hardware is configured to execute the software code to receive a three-dimensional (3D) digital model, surround the 3D digital model with multiple virtual cameras oriented toward the 3D digital model, and generate, using the virtual cameras, a multiple renders of the 3D digital model. The processing hardware is further configured to execute the software code to generate a UV texture coordinate space for a surface projection of the 3D digital model, and to transfer, using the multiple renders, lighting color values for each of multiple surface portions of the 3D digital model to the UV texture coordinate space.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2021Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventors: Dane M. Coffey, Siroberto Scerbo, Evan M. Goldberg, Christopher Richard Schroers, Daniel L. Baker, Mark R. Mine, Erika Varis Doggett
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Publication number: 20220309737Abstract: An image processing system includes a computing platform having processing hardware, a display, and a system memory storing a software code. The processing hardware executes the software code to receive a digital object, surround the digital object with virtual cameras oriented toward the digital object, render, using each one of the virtual cameras, a depth map identifying a distance of that one of the virtual cameras from the digital object, and generate, using the depth map, a volumetric perspective of the digital object from a perspective of that one of the virtual cameras, resulting in multiple volumetric perspectives of the digital object. The processing hardware further executes the software code to merge the multiple volumetric perspectives of the digital object to form a volumetric representation of the digital object, and to convert the volumetric representation of the digital object to a renderable form.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2021Publication date: September 29, 2022Inventors: Dane M. Coffey, Siroberto Scerbo, Daniel L. Baker, Mark R. Mine, Evan M. Goldberg
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Publication number: 20220197384Abstract: A method includes displaying, on a touchscreen, a video comprising a video frame and determining, based on a saliency map of the video frame, a region of interest in the video frame. The method also includes detecting a touch on a region of the touchscreen while the video frame is displayed and generating a haptic response in response to determining that the region of the touchscreen overlaps with the region of interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2020Publication date: June 23, 2022Inventors: Evan M. GOLDBERG, Daniel L. BAKER, Jackson A. ROGOW
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Publication number: 20220076484Abstract: In one implementation, a virtual-world simulator includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing a software code, a tracking system communicatively coupled to the computing platform, and a projection device communicatively coupled to the computing platform. The hardware processor is configured to execute the software code to obtain a map of a geometry of a real-world venue including the virtual-world simulator, to identify one or more virtual effects for display in the real-world venue, and to use the tracking system to track a moving perspective of one of a user in the real-world venue or a camera in the real-world venue. The hardware processor is further configured to execute the software code to control the projection device to simulate a virtual-world by conforming the identified one or more virtual effects to the geometry of the real-world venue from a present vantage point of the tracked moving perspective.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2021Publication date: March 10, 2022Inventors: Dane M. Coffey, Evan M. Goldberg, Steven M. Chapman, Daniel L. Baker, Matthew Deuel, Mark R. Mine
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Publication number: 20220051013Abstract: Tracking an item of interest through an environment is described. Tracking the item of interest through the environment is accomplished using passive optical tracking where an item is identified in an image of the environment using image processing and various locations of the item are tracked through the environment. When a user wants to know an item's location, a location image is projected onto the location of the item to allow a user view a current location of the item.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2020Publication date: February 17, 2022Inventors: Evan M. GOLDBERG, Mark R. MINE, Matthew DEUEL, Daniel L. BAKER, Dane M. COFFEY, Steven M. CHAPMAN
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Publication number: 20220020204Abstract: In one implementation, a virtual-world simulator includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing a software code, a tracking system communicatively coupled to the computing platform, and a projection device communicatively coupled to the computing platform. The hardware processor is configured to execute the software code to obtain a map of a geometry of a real-world venue including the virtual-world simulator, to identify one or more virtual effects for display in the real-world venue, and to use the tracking system to track a moving perspective of one of a user in the real-world venue or a camera in the real-world venue. The hardware processor is further configured to execute the software code to control the projection device to simulate a virtual-world by conforming the identified one or more virtual effects to the geometry of the real-world venue from a present vantage point of the tracked moving perspective.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2020Publication date: January 20, 2022Inventors: Dane M. Coffey, Evan M. Goldberg, Steven M. Chapman, Daniel L. Baker, Matthew Deuel, Mark R. Mine
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Patent number: 11210843Abstract: In one implementation, a virtual-world simulator includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing a software code, a tracking system communicatively coupled to the computing platform, and a projection device communicatively coupled to the computing platform. The hardware processor is configured to execute the software code to obtain a map of a geometry of a real-world venue including the virtual-world simulator, to identify one or more virtual effects for display in the real-world venue, and to use the tracking system to track a moving perspective of one of a user in the real-world venue or a camera in the real-world venue. The hardware processor is further configured to execute the software code to control the projection device to simulate a virtual-world by conforming the identified one or more virtual effects to the geometry of the real-world venue from a present vantage point of the tracked moving perspective.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2020Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.Inventors: Dane M. Coffey, Evan M. Goldberg, Steven M. Chapman, Daniel L. Baker, Matthew Deuel, Mark R. Mine
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Publication number: 20210373834Abstract: The present disclosure describes a method for displaying supplemental content. The method includes determining environmental characteristics, e.g., wall space, empty areas, colors, etc., for a display environment, determining supplemental content based in part on a primary content displayed by a primary display, and displaying the supplemental content in the display environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Inventors: Evan M. Goldberg, Daniel L. Baker, Steven M. Chapman, Dane M. Coffey, Matthew Deuel, Mark R. Mine
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Patent number: 9682199Abstract: Described is drug infusion device and lineset for delivering medication. The novel pump and lineset described herein eliminate the ability of the pump and lineset from being primed when the cartridge reservoir is in fluid communication with the drug-delivering cannula, through which medication is delivered, is inserted into the skin of a patient. The system and method of the invention include a lineset having a plurality of electrical leads for allowing electrical communication between the infusion pump and the infusion set and for allowing the pump to determine whether the lineset is connected to the infusion set when a priming operation is initiated.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2013Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: ANIMAS CORPORATIONInventors: Ryan Walsh, Daniel L. Baker, Matthew Clemente, William King, Gerald Kuehl
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Publication number: 20160310661Abstract: The invention is generally directed toward a novel fluid cartridge for medical infusion devices. The disclosed invention describes various protection sleeves and other structures for protecting the luer connection of a lineset that connects to the cartridge, to reduce the stresses placed on the luer connection when the lineset is worn on the body of patient, and to reduce the chances for unintentional disconnection, breakage, or leakage.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2016Publication date: October 27, 2016Inventors: Daniel SERVANSKY, Daniel L. BAKER, William G. SAULENAS
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Publication number: 20140378939Abstract: The invention is generally directed toward a novel fluid cartridge for medical infusion devices. The disclosed invention describes a medicament cartridge having an internal vent structure and hydrophobic venting material to permit the equilibration of pressure between an infusion device's reservoir chamber and the external environment, without the need for a costly, difficult to maintain vent located in the housing of the infusion device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2014Publication date: December 25, 2014Applicant: Animas CorporationInventors: William G. SAULENAS, Daniel L. BAKER
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Publication number: 20140323989Abstract: The invention provides infusion devices that utilize a low profile handle. The handle is useful in retaining a needle in, and removing the needle from, the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2013Publication date: October 30, 2014Applicant: Calibra Medical, Inc.Inventors: Daniel L. Baker, Brett Cross, John McKenzie