Patents by Inventor Gerrit Hendrik Hofmeester
Gerrit Hendrik Hofmeester 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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Publication number: 20230215120Abstract: The present embodiments relate to display of glints associated with real-world objects in an environment displayed on an extra reality (XR) device. The glint can include a virtual object associated with a real-world object, such as an indication of a social interaction associated with a real-world object, a content item tagged to an object, etc. The system as described herein can present glints on a display of an XR device based on a distance between the XR device and a location associated with the glint. Responsive to selection of a glint in the environment, additional information can be presented relating to the glint or another action can be taken, such as to open an application. In some instances, a glint can include a series of search results relating to a corresponding real-world object to provide additional information relating to the real-world object.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2023Publication date: July 6, 2023Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Jing MA, Gerrit Hendrik HOFMEESTER, John Jacob BLAKELEY, Camila Cortes DE ALMEIDA E DE VINCENZO, Gagneet Singh MAC, Jenna VELEZ, Cody CHAR, Annika RODRIGUES, Michael LUO
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Patent number: 11636655Abstract: The present embodiments relate to display of glints associated with real-world objects in an environment displayed on an extra reality (XR) device. The glint can include a virtual object associated with a real-world object, such as an indication of a social interaction associated with a real-world object, a content item tagged to an object, etc. The system as described herein can present glints on a display of an XR device based on a distance between the XR device and a location associated with the glint. Responsive to selection of a glint in the environment, additional information can be presented relating to the glint or another action can be taken, such as to open an application. In some instances, a glint can include a series of search results relating to a corresponding real-world object to provide additional information relating to the real-world object.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Jing Ma, Gerrit Hendrik Hofmeester, John Jacob Blakeley, Camila Cortes De Almeida e De Vincenzo, Gagneet Singh Mac, Jenna Velez, Cody Char, Annika Rodrigues, Michael Luo
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Publication number: 20220165013Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to an avatar reaction system in which messaging can be initiated via an avatar. Aspects are also directed to automated controls for connecting an artificial reality trigger to an action. Aspects are further directed to adding a like to a gesture target based on interpreting a gesture. Aspects are yet further directed to administering a conversation thread, for a game, over a messaging platform. Additional aspects are directed to connecting a game with a conversation thread to coordinate game challenges. Further aspects are directed to establishing a shared space for a 3D call with participants' hologram representations mirrored as compared to how images of the participants are captured. Yet further aspects of the present disclosure are directed to scanning a physical space to onboard it as a messaging inbox and providing the scanned space for delivery point selection to a message sender.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2022Publication date: May 26, 2022Inventors: Jenna VELEZ, Gerrit Hendrik HOFMEESTER, Gagneet Singh MAC, Cody CHAR, Jenny KAM, Yeliz KARADAYI, Camila Cortes DE ALMEIDA E DE VINCENZO, Paul Armistead HOOVER, Christopher ANDERSON, Pei Hsiu LUU, Trevor LUNDEEN, Matt HARRISON, Jing MA, Annika RODRIGUES
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Publication number: 20220157027Abstract: The present embodiments relate to display of glints associated with real-world objects in an environment displayed on an extra reality (XR) device. The glint can include a virtual object associated with a real-world object, such as an indication of a social interaction associated with a real-world object, a content item tagged to an object, etc. The system as described herein can present glints on a display of an XR device based on a distance between the XR device and a location associated with the glint. Responsive to selection of a glint in the environment, additional information can be presented relating to the glint or another action can be taken, such as to open an application. In some instances, a glint can include a series of search results relating to a corresponding real-world object to provide additional information relating to the real-world object.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2021Publication date: May 19, 2022Inventors: Jing MA, Gerrit Hendrik HOFMEESTER, John Jacob BLAKELEY, Camila Cortes DE ALMEIDA E DE VINCENZO, Gagneet Singh MAC, Jenna VELEZ, Cody CHAR, Annika RODRIGUES, Michael LUO
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Patent number: 11294475Abstract: Embodiments described herein disclose methods and systems directed to input mode selection in artificial reality. In some implementations, various input modes enable a user to perform precise interactions with a target object without occluding the target object. Some input modes can include rays that extend along a line that intersects an origin point, a control point, and an interaction point. An interaction model can specify when the system switches between input modes, such as modes based solely on gaze, using long or short ray input, or with direct interaction between the user's hand(s) and objects. These transitions can be performed by evaluating rules that take context factors such as whether a user's hands are in view of the user, what posture the hands are in, whether a target object is selected, and whether a target object is within a threshold distance from the user.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2021Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: Etienne Pinchon, Jennifer Lynn Spurlock, Nathan Aschenbach, Gerrit Hendrik Hofmeester, Roger Ibars Martinez, Christopher Alan Baker, Chris Rojas
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Patent number: 11113893Abstract: The present embodiments relate to display of glints associated with real-world objects in an environment displayed on an extra reality (XR) device. The glint can include a virtual object associated with a real-world object, such as an indication of a social interaction associated with a real-world object, a content item tagged to an object, etc. The system as described herein can present glints on a display of an XR device based on a distance between the XR device and a location associated with the glint. Responsive to selection of a glint in the environment, additional information can be presented relating to the glint or another action can be taken, such as to open an application. In some instances, a glint can include a series of search results relating to a corresponding real-world object to provide additional information relating to the real-world object.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2020Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Inventors: Jing Ma, Gerrit Hendrik Hofmeester, John Jacob Blakeley, Camila Cortes De Almeida e De Vincenzo, Gagneet Singh Mac, Jenna Velez, Cody Char, Annika Rodrigues, Michael Luo
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Publication number: 20180056130Abstract: Examples are disclosed herein that relate to integrating health data and calendar data of one or more users and providing insights for a selected user to help the user accomplish an outcome of interest. The insights may be identified based on a group of cohorts determined to be similar to the selected user and/or used to predict a likelihood that the selected user will achieve an outcome of interest. Additional insights may be provided by monitoring an effect that following a recommendation has on the selected user achieving the outcome of interest. Recommendations and/or updates to recommendations may be provided based on the insights.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2017Publication date: March 1, 2018Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Hadas Bitran, Ryen William White, Girish Sthanu Nathan, Tachen C. Ni, Jessica Lundin, David Earl Heckerman, Gerrit Hendrik Hofmeester, Carey Dietz, Heather Jordan Cartwright, Shahar Yekutiel, Arie Schwartzman, Gil Shacham, Brian Bilodeau, Todd Holmdahl, Gabriel A. desGarennes
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Publication number: 20170039332Abstract: A method for presenting health notifications begins with creating a plurality of different health notifications, each conveying the same type of information. Each of the different health notifications is provided to a plurality of different users, each user categorized with user health metrics. Post-health notification user activity is tracked for each of the different users. A machine-learning classification machine is trained with tracked user activity, along with corresponding user health metrics, for each of the different health notifications. When provided with user health metrics received from a health-monitoring computing device associated with a user, the machine-learning classification machine chooses a selected health notification for the user from among the different health notifications, the selected notification determined to be more likely than any of the other health notifications to elicit a healthy response from the user. The selected health notification is then sent to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2015Publication date: February 9, 2017Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Elad Yom-Tov, Hadas Bitran, Nazia Zaman, Brian Bilodeau, Katherine Winant Osborne, David A. Wickert, Ran Gilad-Bachrach, Gerrit Hendrik Hofmeester, Farah Shariff
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Publication number: 20130067408Abstract: A graphical user interface includes a collection of selectable content items, and a command surface for selectively displaying command selectors relating to the collection of selectable content items. Responsive to user selection of a first content item from the collection, the command surface is updated to include a first set of one or more command selectors applicable to the first content item. Responsive to user selection of a second content item, the command surface is updated to include a second set of one or more command selectors applicable to both the first content item and the second content item. Each command selector in the second set is selectable to execute a contextually applicable command related to both the first content item and the second content item.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2011Publication date: March 14, 2013Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Jan-Kristian Markiewicz, Gerrit Hendrik Hofmeester, Jon Gabriel Clapper, Adam George Barlow
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Publication number: 20130067414Abstract: Techniques of handling input from a pointing device within a computing system. The method includes, under control of one or more processors configured with executable instructions, receiving from the pointing device a first signal while the pointing device is pointing at an object related to an executable application. The origin of the first signal is determined and if the first signal originated based upon a single activation of a first user input on the pointing device, the object is selected. If the first signal originated based upon a single activation of a second user input on the pointing device, the object is executed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2011Publication date: March 14, 2013Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Jan-Kristian Markiewicz, Gerrit Hendrik Hofmeester, Jon Gabriel Clapper, Jennifer Nan, Jesse Clay Satterfield
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Publication number: 20120096349Abstract: An invention is disclosed for using touch input to display a representation of information for an item of a plurality of grouped items not otherwise accessible via other touch input. In an embodiment. In an embodiment, a user provides touch input to a touch-input device that comprises a scrubbing motion. Where the scrub corresponds to interacting with an item of a plurality of grouped items, a representation of information not otherwise accessible via other touch input is displayed (such as an infotip). In this manner, touch input may serve as a way to obtain a mouse-over event where there is no mouse pointer with which to create a mouse-over.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2010Publication date: April 19, 2012Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Qixing Zheng, William David Carr, Xu Zhang, Ethan Ray, Gerrit Hendrik Hofmeester