Patents by Inventor Erik A. Stuart

Erik A. Stuart 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: 20240397019
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a web-based videoconference system that allows for video avatars to navigate within the virtual environment. The system has a presented mode that allows for a presentation stream to be texture mapped to a presenter screen situated within the virtual environment. The relative left-right sound is adjusted to provide sense of an avatar's position in a virtual space. The sound is further adjusted based on the area where the avatar is located and where the virtual camera is located. Video stream quality is adjusted based on relative position in a virtual space. Three-dimensional modeling is available inside the virtual video conferencing environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Applicant: Katmai Tech Inc.
    Inventors: Gerard Cornelis KROL, Erik Stuart BRAUND
  • Publication number: 20240372970
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for videoconferencing in a three-dimensional virtual environment. In the method, a video stream captured from a camera on a first device of a first user and a specification of an emote are received. The specification is input by the first user through the first device. Then, the video stream is mapped onto a three-dimensional model of an avatar. From a perspective of a virtual camera of a second user, the three-dimensional virtual environment is rendered for display to the second user through a second device. This rendering includes the mapped three-dimensional model of the avatar, and the emote attached to the three-dimensional model of the avatar, where the emote emits sound played by the second device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: Katmai Tech Inc.
    Inventors: Gerard Cornelis KROL, Erik Stuart BRAUND
  • Publication number: 20240371091
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system that allows for the use of optical labels in a virtual environment. The system and methods generate a virtual optical label with embedded data. A 3D model of an object is rendered for display in a virtual environment, where the 3D model incorporates the virtual optical label. The virtual optical label is displayed on the 3D model in the virtual environment. A scanned image of the virtual optical label is received via a camera application of a mobile computing device. Based on receiving the scanned image, an action is performed based on the embedded data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: Katmai Tech Inc.
    Inventors: Petr POLYAKOV, Erik Stuart BRAUND
  • Patent number: 12125163
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system that allows for the real-time build out of a virtual environment. The system and methods receive, via a web browser, a user selection of a three-dimensional (3D) model in a virtual environment. The user selection is made during an active user session of the user. Based on receiving the user selection, an editor is launched from within the web browser. The editor is used to modify properties of the 3D model in real-time during the active user session. One or more user inputs are received indicating the properties of the 3D model to be modified. Based on the one or more user inputs, the properties of the 3D model are modified in real-time. The 3D model is rendered to reflect the properties within the virtual environment during the active user session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: KATMAI TECH INC.
    Inventors: Petr Polyakov, Gerard Cornelis Krol, Erik Stuart Braund
  • Patent number: 12081908
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a web-based videoconference system that allows for video avatars to navigate within the virtual environment. The system has a presented mode that allows for a presentation stream to be texture mapped to a presenter screen situated within the virtual environment. The relative left-right sound is adjusted to provide sense of an avatar's position in a virtual space. The sound is further adjusted based on the area where the avatar is located and where the virtual camera is located. Video stream quality is adjusted based on relative position in a virtual space. Three-dimensional modeling is available inside the virtual video conferencing environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: KATMAI TECH INC
    Inventors: Gerard Cornelis Krol, Erik Stuart Braund
  • Patent number: 12075193
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for videoconferencing in a three-dimensional virtual environment. In the method, a video stream captured from a camera on a first device of a first user and a specification of an emote are received. The specification is input by the first user through the first device. Then, the video stream is mapped onto a three-dimensional model of an avatar. From a perspective of a virtual camera of a second user, the three-dimensional virtual environment is rendered for display to the second user through a second device. This rendering includes the mapped three-dimensional model of the avatar, and the emote attached to the three-dimensional model of the avatar, where the emote emits sound played by the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Katmai Tech Inc.
    Inventors: Gerard Cornelis Krol, Erik Stuart Braund
  • Publication number: 20240283894
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a web-based videoconference system that allows for video avatars to navigate within the three-dimensional virtual environment. The system and methods provided include those for: (1) using zones in a three-dimensional virtual environment for limiting audio and video, (2) access control using zones, (3) access control of the three-dimensional virtual environment itself, and (4) controlling user connections in a three dimensional virtual environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: KATMAI TECH INC.
    Inventors: Gerard Cornelis KROL, Petr POLYAKOV, Erik Stuart BRAUND
  • Patent number: 12028651
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are aspects for integrating a two-dimensional video conference into a three-dimensional virtual environment. An aspect begins by rendering the virtual environment, including a first avatar. The virtual environment is rendered on a first device, belonging to a first user, and from a perspective of a first virtual camera controlled by the first user. The first avatar represents the first user at a location of the first virtual camera. The aspect then provides operations for connecting the user in the 3D virtual environment with a video conferencing platform (VCP) server to connect to a video conference hosted by the VCP server. The aspect continues by transmitting and receiving video and audio data to and from the VCP server. The aspect concludes by rendering the received audio and video data into the 3D virtual environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: KATMAI TECH INC.
    Inventors: Erik Stuart Braund, Kristofor Bernard Swanson
  • Patent number: 12022235
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a web-based videoconference system that allows for video avatars to navigate within the three-dimensional virtual environment. The system and methods provided include those for: (1) using zones in a three-dimensional virtual environment for limiting audio and video, (2) access control using zones, (3) access control of the three-dimensional virtual environment itself, and (4) controlling user connections in a three dimensional virtual environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Katmai Tech Inc.
    Inventors: Gerard Cornelis Krol, Petr Polyakov, Erik Stuart Braund
  • Patent number: 12009938
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a web-based videoconference system that allows for video avatars to navigate within the three-dimensional virtual environment. The system and methods provided include those for: (1) using zones in a three-dimensional virtual environment for limiting audio and video, (2) access control using zones, (3) access control of the three-dimensional virtual environment itself, and (4) controlling user connections in a three dimensional virtual environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: KATMAI TECH INC.
    Inventors: Gerard Cornelis Krol, Petr Polyakov, Erik Stuart Braund
  • Patent number: 11928777
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a system that allows for the use of optical labels in a virtual environment. The system and methods generate a virtual optical label with embedded data. A 3D model of an object is rendered for display in a virtual environment, where the 3D model incorporates the virtual optical label. The virtual optical label is displayed on the 3D model in the virtual environment. A scanned image of the virtual optical label is received via a camera application of a mobile computing device. Based on receiving the scanned image, an action is performed based on the embedded data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Katmai Tech Inc.
    Inventors: Petr Polyakov, Erik Stuart Braund
  • Patent number: 11928774
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a web-based videoconference system that allows for multi-screen sharing. In some embodiments, data specifying a three-dimensional virtual space is received. The three-dimensional virtual space comprises a plurality of participants and an avatar representing each of the plurality of participants and three-dimensional models of a plurality of presentation screens. Multiple presentation streams may be shared on different presentation screens simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: KATMAI TECH INC.
    Inventors: Gerard Cornelis Krol, Erik Stuart Braund
  • Publication number: 20240061757
    Abstract: In an example, a first testing device is configured to receive testing data from a second testing. The first testing device is configured to send a stimulus to a device under test. The first testing device obtains test data reception methods and test data reception formats that are compatible with the first testing device and translates the methods and formats into content that is readable by the second testing device. The content is received by the second testing device, which accesses test data transmission methods and formats compatible with the second testing device and defines an intersection of the reception and transmission test data formats. The second testing device sends the intersection of methods and formats to the first testing device, which reduces the intersection to a final method and format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventor: Erik Stuart Hons
  • Publication number: 20240031530
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a web-based videoconference system that allows for video avatars to navigate within the three-dimensional virtual environment. The system and methods provided include those for: (1) using zones in a three-dimensional virtual environment for limiting audio and video, (2) access control using zones, (3) access control of the three-dimensional virtual environment itself, and (4) controlling user connections in a three dimensional virtual environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Katmai Tech Inc.
    Inventors: Gerard Cornelis KROL, Petr POLYAKOV, Erik Stuart BRAUND
  • Publication number: 20240031186
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a web-based videoconference system that allows for video avatars to navigate within the three-dimensional virtual environment. The system and methods provided include those for: (1) using zones in a three-dimensional virtual environment for limiting audio and video, (2) access control using zones, (3) access control of the three-dimensional virtual environment itself, and (4) controlling user connections in a three dimensional virtual environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Katmai Tech Inc.
    Inventors: Gerard Cornelis KROL, Petr POLYAKOV, Erik Stuart BRAUND
  • Publication number: 20240029339
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a web-based videoconference system that allows for multi-screen sharing. In some embodiments, data specifying a three-dimensional virtual space is received. The three-dimensional virtual space comprises a plurality of participants and an avatar representing each of the plurality of participants and three-dimensional models of a plurality of presentation screens. Multiple presentation streams may be shared on different presentation screens simultaneously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Katmai Tech Inc.
    Inventors: Gerard Cornelis KROL, Erik Stuart BRAUND
  • Publication number: 20240031182
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a web-based videoconference system that allows for video avatars to navigate within the three-dimensional virtual environment. The system and methods provided include those for: (1) using zones in a three-dimensional virtual environment for limiting audio and video, (2) access control using zones, (3) access control of the three-dimensional virtual environment itself, and (4) controlling user connections in a three dimensional virtual environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Katmai Tech Inc.
    Inventors: Gerard Cornelis KROL, Petr POLYAKOV, Erik Stuart BRAUND
  • Publication number: 20240031531
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a web-based videoconference system that allows for two-dimensional screen sharing within the virtual environment. In some embodiments, data specifying a three-dimensional virtual space. The three-dimensional virtual space comprises a plurality of participants and an avatar representing each of the plurality of participants. A presentation stream is received from a first client device of a first participant. The presentation stream is mapped onto a three-dimensional model of a presentation screen in the three-dimensional virtual space. A selection of the presentation screen is received from a second participant. A two-dimensional view of the presentation stream is rendered to the second participant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Katmai Tech Inc.
    Inventors: Gerard Cornelis KROL, Erik Stuart BRAUND, James DONAHOWER, Petr POLYAKOV
  • Patent number: 11876630
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a web-based videoconference system that allows for video avatars to navigate within the three-dimensional virtual environment. The system and methods provided include those for: (1) using zones in a three-dimensional virtual environment for limiting audio and video, (2) access control using zones, (3) access control of the three-dimensional virtual environment itself, and (4) controlling user connections in a three dimensional virtual environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: KATMAI TECH INC.
    Inventors: Gerard Cornelis Krol, Petr Polyakov, Erik Stuart Braund
  • Publication number: 20230353710
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a computer-implemented method, system, device, and computer program product for providing awareness of who are able to hear audio in a virtual conference. For each of the users in the virtual conference, a device of the speaking user or a server determines whether a respective user is able to hear the speaking user based on whether a respective sound volume at which the respective user is able hear the speaking user exceeds a threshold amount. The speaking user's device or the server outputs a notification indicating the users that are able to hear the speaking user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: Katmai Tech Inc.
    Inventors: Gerard Cornelis KROL, Erik Stuart BRAUND