Patents by Inventor Gordon Yeoman

Gordon Yeoman 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: 11398047
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a system to render a virtual reality (VR) scene, and a method and computer program product to determine a follower pose in a VR simulator during a simulation step. In one example, the method includes: (1) computing one or more current candidate poses utilizing input parameters, wherein each of the current candidate poses is a temporal projection of a follower pose along a respective sweep direction towards a leader pose, and wherein an obstruction is located between the follower pose and the leader pose, (2) selecting a target pose from the one or more current candidate poses, (3) refining the target pose utilizing physics-based constraints and the input parameters, wherein the physics-based constraints use a surface of the obstruction, and (4) rendering a new follower pose based on the refined target pose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Nvidia Corporation
    Inventors: Gordon Yeoman, Michael Sauter
  • Publication number: 20200380714
    Abstract: The disclosure provides a system to render a virtual reality (VR) scene, and a method and computer program product to determine a follower pose in a VR simulator during a simulation step. In one example, the method includes: (1) computing one or more current candidate poses utilizing input parameters, wherein each of the current candidate poses is a temporal projection of a follower pose along a respective sweep direction towards a leader pose, and wherein an obstruction is located between the follower pose and the leader pose, (2) selecting a target pose from the one or more current candidate poses, (3) refining the target pose utilizing physics-based constraints and the input parameters, wherein the physics-based constraints use a surface of the obstruction, and (4) rendering a new follower pose based on the refined target pose.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Gordon Yeoman, Michael Sauter