Patents by Inventor Han-Wei Chu

Han-Wei Chu 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: 10635259
    Abstract: In one general aspect, a method can include triggering display of a virtual environment in a head mounted display (HMD) device operating in a physical environment, triggering display of a first virtual object representing a second virtual object, the first virtual object having a size smaller than a size of the second virtual object, receiving an indication of an interaction of a user with the first virtual object, the user having a first size larger than the size of the first virtual object, and triggering an interaction with the second virtual object in response to an interaction with the first virtual object, the user having a second size larger than the first size when interacting with the second virtual object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Ran Tao, Tarik Abdel-Gawad, Adam Glazier, Dominik Philemon Kaeser, Matthew Seegmiller, Andre Le, Nadav Ashkenazi, Han-Wei Chu, Joanna Kim, Michael Podwal, Robert Carl Jagnow, Chun-Po Wang
  • Publication number: 20180136816
    Abstract: In one general aspect, a method can include triggering display of a virtual environment in a head mounted display (HMD) device operating in a physical environment, triggering display of a first virtual object representing a second virtual object, the first virtual object having a size smaller than a size of the second virtual object, receiving an indication of an interaction of a user with the first virtual object, the user having a first size larger than the size of the first virtual object, and triggering an interaction with the second virtual object in response to an interaction with the first virtual object, the user having a second size larger than the first size when interacting with the second virtual object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventors: Ran Tao, Tarik Abdel-Gawad, Adam Glazier, Dominik Philemon Kaeser, Matthew Seegmiller, Andre Le, Nadav Ashkenazi, Han-Wei Chu, Joanna Kim, Michael Podwal, Robert Carl Jagnow, Chun-Po Wang
  • Patent number: 9692701
    Abstract: In one aspect, a method includes electing one of a plurality of browser tabs at a client device as a master browser tab based on a timer value associated with each of the plurality of browser tabs, each of the plurality of browser tabs running web pages or web applications maintained by a common service being served by one or more servers, issuing a request from the master browser tab to the one or more servers, receiving a response to the request including a time value indicating the next time a request should be sent to the one or more servers at the master browser tab, updating, by the master browser tab, a local storage accessible by the plurality of browser tabs with the time value and resetting the timer value at each of the plurality of browser tabs according to the time value in response to receiving the response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Han-Wei Chu, Vincent Gatto, Adam Corey Kalachman, Lukasz Bieniasz-Krzywiec