Patents by Inventor Erik A. Hill

Erik A. Hill 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: 12266217
    Abstract: Generally discussed herein are examples of gesture-based extended reality (XR) with object recognition and tracking. A method, implemented by an extended reality (XR) device can include recognizing and tracking one or more objects in the image data, recognizing a gesture in the image data, analyzing the image data to determine whether a condition is satisfied, the condition indicating a recognized and tracked object of the one or more objects proximate which the recognized gesture is to be made, and in response to determining that the condition is satisfied, performing an augmentation of the image data based on satisfaction of the condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Erik A. Hill
  • Publication number: 20220415088
    Abstract: Generally discussed herein are examples of gesture-based extended reality (XR) with object recognition and tracking. A method, implemented by an extended reality (XR) device can include recognizing and tracking one or more objects in the image data, recognizing a gesture in the image data, analyzing the image data to determine whether a condition is satisfied, the condition indicating a recognized and tracked object of the one or more objects proximate which the recognized gesture is to be made, and in response to determining that the condition is satisfied, performing an augmentation of the image data based on satisfaction of the condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventor: Erik A. HILL
  • Patent number: 11467939
    Abstract: A computer implemented method includes recording data representative of a user experience sensed by a mixed reality device during a mixed reality experience of a user in a space, processing the recorded data to infer one or more actions performed by the user in the space during the mixed reality experience, and creating an augmented replay of the mixed reality experience based on the recorded data and inferred actions performed by the user during the mixed reality experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Erik A. Hill, Jonathan Gustav Paulovich, Michael William Schultz, Dylan Edmund Pierpont, Gabriel Robert Maricich, Charles L. Harrison, Todd A Omotani, Kathleen Carol Heasley
  • Patent number: 11275629
    Abstract: Multiple sound systems are used to provide a realistic audio MR audio experience for one or more users. In one example, an MR space sound system has one or more speakers distributed within an MR space. MR device sound systems for users provides sound directly to the users wearing the MR devices. Audio signals representative of sound in the MR experience are mixed by each sound system to provide sounds that complement each other. Both sound systems provide sound to the users based on events occurring in the MR experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Erik A. Hill, Xiao Bai Lu, Brandon Kasey Harper, Dylan Edmund Pierpont, Travis Joseph Fodor
  • Publication number: 20210406094
    Abstract: Multiple sound systems are used to provide a realistic audio MR audio experience for one or more users. In one example, an MR space sound system has one or more speakers distributed within an MR space. MR device sound systems for users provides sound directly to the users wearing the MR devices. Audio signals representative of sound in the MR experience are mixed by each sound system to provide sounds that complement each other. Both sound systems provide sound to the users based on events occurring in the MR experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Erik A. Hill, Xiao Bai Lu, Brandon Kasey Harper, Dylan Edmund Pierpont, Travis Joseph Fodor
  • Publication number: 20210397533
    Abstract: A computer implemented method includes recording data representative of a user experience sensed by a mixed reality device during a mixed reality experience of a user in a space, processing the recorded data to infer one or more actions performed by the user in the space during the mixed reality experience, and creating an augmented replay of the mixed reality experience based on the recorded data and inferred actions performed by the user during the mixed reality experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Erik A. Hill, Jonathan Gustav Paulovich, Michael William Schultz, Dylan Edmund Pierpont, Gabriel Robert Maricich, Charles L. Harrison, Todd A. Omotani, Kathleen Carol Heasley