Patents by Inventor Ian MULDOON

Ian MULDOON 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: 20250189794
    Abstract: A head-mounted device comprises a frame; a lens coupled to the frame, the lens being configured to reflect infrared light from an interior side of the lens and pass visible light; and a camera configured to capture the infrared light reflected from the interior side of the lens and to capture the visible light passing through the lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Inventor: Ian Muldoon
  • Patent number: 11567329
    Abstract: A system for tracking a position and an orientation of an external device such as a smart watch or a handheld controller relative to a head mounted display (HMD) device is provided. A combination of active markers and passive markers on the external device may be detected by a point tracking camera of the HMD to collect position data for the external device relative to the HMD. Acceleration and/or orientation data of the external device relative to the HMD may be collected from an inertial measurement unit(s) (IMU(s)) of the external device and/or the HMD. The fusion of the position data with the data collected by the IMU(s) may allow for tracking of the external device relative to the HMD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ian Muldoon, Clayton Kimber, Jeremy Swerdlow, Srivatsan Ravindran
  • Patent number: 11430199
    Abstract: A vehicle mounted imaging system tracks and resolves image using an object image regions of interest at a higher resolution than that which can be provided by typical wide-angle optics. The imaging system includes an object identification camera, a sampling camera, and one or more computing devices. The one or more computing devices obtain a full-frame image from the object identification camera and identify at least one region of interest within the full frame image. The one or more computing devices then configure the sampling camera to capture images of a sampling area containing the region of interest, wherein the sampling area consists of some, but not all, of a field of view of the sampling camera. Using a super-image resolution technique, the one or more computing devices create a high-resolution image of the region of interest from a plurality of images captured by the sampling camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Ducote, Ian Muldoon, Romain Clement
  • Patent number: 11340460
    Abstract: A system for tracking a position and an orientation of an external device such as a smart watch or a handheld controller relative to a head mounted display (HMD) device is provided. A combination of active markers and passive markers on the external device may be detected by a point tracking camera of the HMD to collect position data for the external device relative to the HMD. Acceleration and/or orientation data of the external device relative to the HMD may be collected from an inertial measurement unit(s) (IMU(s)) of the external device and/or the HMD. The fusion of the position data with the data collected by the IMU(s) may allow for tracking of the external device relative to the HMD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ian Muldoon, Clayton Kimber, Jeremy Swerdlow, Srivatsan Ravindran
  • Publication number: 20220011580
    Abstract: A system for tracking a position and an orientation of an external device such as a smart watch or a handheld controller relative to a head mounted display (HMD) device is provided. A combination of active markers and passive markers on the external device may be detected by a point tracking camera of the HMD to collect position data for the external device relative to the HMD. Acceleration and/or orientation data of the external device relative to the HMD may be collected from an inertial measurement unit(s) (IMU(s)) of the external device and/or the HMD. The fusion of the position data with the data collected by the IMU(s) may allow for tracking of the external device relative to the HMD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Ian Muldoon, Clayton Kimber, Jeremy Swerdlow, Srivatsan Ravindran
  • Publication number: 20210356743
    Abstract: A system for tracking a position and an orientation of an external device such as a smart watch or a handheld controller relative to a head mounted display (HMD) device is provided. A combination of active markers and passive markers on the external device may be detected by a point tracking camera of the HMD to collect position data for the external device relative to the HMD. Acceleration and/or orientation data of the external device relative to the HMD may be collected from an inertial measurement unit(s) (IMU(s)) of the external device and/or the HMD. The fusion of the position data with the data collected by the IMU(s) may allow for tracking of the external device relative to the HMD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Ian Muldoon, Clayton Kimber, Jeremy Swerdlow, Srivatsan Ravindran
  • Publication number: 20190311209
    Abstract: A vehicle mounted imaging system tracks and resolves image using an object image regions of interest at a higher resolution than that which can be provided by typical wide-angle optics. The imaging system includes an object identification camera, a sampling camera, and one or more computing devices. The one or more computing devices obtain a full-frame image from the object identification camera and identify at least one region of interest within the full frame image. The one or more computing devices then configure the sampling camera to capture images of a sampling area containing the region of interest, wherein the sampling area consists of some, but not all, of a field of view of the sampling camera. Using a super-image resolution technique, the one or more computing devices create a high-resolution image of the region of interest from a plurality of images captured by the sampling camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Ducote, Ian Muldoon, Romain Clement
  • Patent number: 9113551
    Abstract: Systems, methods and articles of manufacture for rigid flex circuit boards are described herein. Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to equipping a rigid flex circuit board with a first rigid substrate, a second rigid substrate that includes an asymmetric region where the first rigid substrate is not extended over the asymmetric region of the second rigid substrate. The rigid flex circuit board also includes a flexible substrate between the first rigid substrate and the second rigid substrate. A second portion of the flexible substrate protrudes from the non-overlap region where the second portion of the flexible substrate is not adhered to the second rigid substrate in the non-overlap region. The second portion of the flexible substrate is configured to be accessible from the asymmetric region of the rigid flex circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Iain Richard Tyrone McClatchie, Ian Muldoon
  • Publication number: 20150163937
    Abstract: Systems, methods and articles of manufacture for rigid flex circuit boards are described herein. Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to equipping a rigid flex circuit board with a first rigid substrate, a second rigid substrate that includes an asymmetric region where the first rigid substrate is not extended over the asymmetric region of the second rigid substrate. The rigid flex circuit board also includes a flexible substrate between the first rigid substrate and the second rigid substrate. A second portion of the flexible substrate protrudes from the non-overlap region where the second portion of the flexible substrate is not adhered to the second rigid substrate in the non-overlap region. The second portion of the flexible substrate is configured to be accessible from the asymmetric region of the rigid flex circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2012
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Iain Richard Tyrone McCLATCHIE, Ian MULDOON