Patents by Inventor James Connaughton
James Connaughton 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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Patent number: 10627900Abstract: An electronic system tracks a user's gaze to rapidly transport a cursor to a location within a focal region of the user's eye. The electronic system transports the cursor from an initial location across one or more displays to a new location in response to detecting one or more saccadic and/or vergence movements of the user's eye or in response to a signal indicating that the user desires to move the cursor to a new location within a focal region of the user's eye or eyes. In some embodiments, the electronic system moves the cursor to the new location along a trajectory wherein the cursor is visible along at least a portion of the trajectory, enabling the user to find the cursor more easily.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2018Date of Patent: April 21, 2020Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Nelson G. Publicover, Lewis James Marggraff, Spencer James Connaughton
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Patent number: 10620700Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for discerning the intent of a device wearer primarily based on movements of the eyes. The system can be included within unobtrusive headwear that performs eye tracking and controls screen display. The system can also utilize remote eye tracking camera(s), remote displays and/or other ancillary inputs. Screen layout is optimized to facilitate the formation and reliable detection of rapid eye signals. The detection of eye signals is based on tracking physiological movements of the eye that are under voluntary control by the device wearer. The detection of eye signals results in actions that are compatible with wearable computing and a wide range of display devices.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2015Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Nelson George Publicover, Lewis James Marggraff, Eliot Francis Drake, Spencer James Connaughton
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Patent number: 10564714Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for discerning the intent of a device wearer primarily based on movements of the eyes. The system may be included within unobtrusive headwear that performs eye tracking and controls screen display. The system may also utilize remote eye tracking camera(s), remote displays and/or other ancillary inputs. Screen layout is optimized to facilitate the formation and reliable detection of rapid eye signals. The detection of eye signals is based on tracking physiological movements of the eye that are under voluntary control by the device wearer. The detection of eye signals results in actions that are compatible with wearable computing and a wide range of display devices.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2016Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Lewis James Marggraff, Nelson George Publicover, Spencer James Connaughton, Nathan Lord, Peter Milford, Ivan Maleev
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Patent number: 10481682Abstract: An electronic system generates at a display virtual writing corresponding to tracked motion of the tip of a pointer with respect to a surface based on proximity of the tip of the pointer to the surface and the gaze of a user's eye. The electronic system determines the location and motion of the tip of the pointer with respect to the surface based on images captured by scene cameras, and determines the focus and gaze direction of the user's eye based on images captured by a user-facing camera. By generating virtual writing at the display corresponding to tracked motion of the tip of the pointer based on proximity of the tip of the pointer to the surface and based on the focus and gaze direction of the user's eye, the electronic system can enable virtual writing and associated collaboration services without the need for a specialized writing surface or pointer.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2017Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Lewis James Marggraff, Nelson G. Publicover, Spencer James Connaughton
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Publication number: 20190343025Abstract: Embodiments disclosed include a heat exchange apparatus comprising an equipment-side coolant circuit configured for fluid communication with a first coolant compartment via a first coolant in-flow and out-flow valve. The embodiment further comprises a second coolant compartment operatively coupled to the first coolant compartment and comprising a second coolant in-flow and out-flow valve in fluid communication with a coolant supply source. The first coolant compartment is calibrated to receive hot coolant via the first coolant in-flow valve from a heat transfer element comprised in the equipment side coolant circuit line coupled to a heat generating source and in fluid communication with the first coolant in-flow valve, and the first coolant out-flow valve is calibrated to return the coolant to the heat transfer element comprised in the equipment side coolant circuit line.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2018Publication date: November 7, 2019Inventors: Arnold C. Magcale, Byron Putnam Taylor, Chase Abercrombie Ott, James Connaughton
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Publication number: 20180275753Abstract: An electronic system tracks a user's gaze to rapidly transport a cursor to a location within a focal region of the user's eye. The electronic system transports the cursor from an initial location across one or more displays to a new location in response to detecting one or more saccadic and/or vergence movements of the user's eye or in response to a signal indicating that the user desires to move the cursor to a new location within a focal region of the user's eye or eyes. In some embodiments, the electronic system moves the cursor to the new location along a trajectory wherein the cursor is visible along at least a portion of the trajectory, enabling the user to find the cursor more easily.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2018Publication date: September 27, 2018Inventors: Nelson G. Publicover, Lewis James Marggraff, Spencer James Connaughton
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Publication number: 20180011533Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for discerning the intent of a device wearer primarily based on movements of the eyes. The system may be included within unobtrusive headwear that performs eye tracking and controls screen display. The system may also utilize remote eye tracking camera(s), remote displays and/or other ancillary inputs. Screen layout is optimized to facilitate the formation and reliable detection of rapid eye signals. The detection of eye signals is based on tracking physiological movements of the eye that are under voluntary control by the device wearer. The detection of eye signals results in actions that are compatible with wearable computing and a wide range of display devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2016Publication date: January 11, 2018Inventors: Lewis James Marggraff, Nelson George Publicover, Spencer James Connaughton, Nathan Lord, Peter Milford, Ivan Maleev
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Patent number: 9823744Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for discerning the intent of a device wearer primarily based on movements of the eyes. The system can be included within unobtrusive headwear that performs eye tracking and controls screen display. The system can also utilize remote eye tracking camera(s), remote displays and/or other ancillary inputs. Screen layout is optimized to facilitate the formation and reliable detection of rapid eye signals. The detection of eye signals is based on tracking physiological movements of the eye that are under voluntary control by the device wearer. The detection of eye signals results in actions that are compatible with wearable computing and a wide range of display devices.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2015Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Nelson George Publicover, Lewis James Marggraff, Eliot Francis Drake, Spencer James Connaughton
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Publication number: 20170285742Abstract: An electronic system generates at a display virtual writing corresponding to tracked motion of the tip of a pointer with respect to a surface based on proximity of the tip of the pointer to the surface and the gaze of a user's eye. The electronic system determines the location and motion of the tip of the pointer with respect to the surface based on images captured by scene cameras, and determines the focus and gaze direction of the user's eye based on images captured by a user-facing camera. By generating virtual writing at the display corresponding to tracked motion of the tip of the pointer based on proximity of the tip of the pointer to the surface and based on the focus and gaze direction of the user's eye, the electronic system can enable virtual writing and associated collaboration services without the need for a specialized writing surface or pointer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2017Publication date: October 5, 2017Inventors: Lewis James Marggraff, Nelson G. Publicover, Spencer James Connaughton
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Publication number: 20170123492Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for discerning the intent of a device wearer primarily based on movements of the eyes. The system may be included within unobtrusive headwear that performs eye tracking and controls screen display. The system may also utilize remote eye tracking camera(s), remote displays and/or other ancillary inputs. Screen layout is optimized to facilitate the formation and reliable detection of rapid eye signals. The detection of eye signals is based on tracking physiological movements of the eye that are under voluntary control by the device wearer. The detection of eye signals results in actions that are compatible with wearable computing and a wide range of display devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2016Publication date: May 4, 2017Inventors: Lewis James Marggraff, Nelson George Publicover, Spencer James Connaughton, Nathan Lord, Peter Milford, Ivan Maleev
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Publication number: 20160274660Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for discerning the intent of a device wearer primarily based on movements of the eyes. The system can be included within unobtrusive headwear that performs eye tracking and controls screen display. The system can also utilize remote eye tracking camera(s), remote displays and/or other ancillary inputs. Screen layout is optimized to facilitate the formation and reliable detection of rapid eye signals. The detection of eye signals is based on tracking physiological movements of the eye that are under voluntary control by the device wearer. The detection of eye signals results in actions that are compatible with wearable computing and a wide range of display devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2016Publication date: September 22, 2016Inventors: Nelson George Publicover, Lewis James Marggraff, Eliot Francis Drake, Spencer James Connaughton
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Publication number: 20160062459Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for discerning the intent of a device wearer primarily based on movements of the eyes. The system can be included within unobtrusive headwear that performs eye tracking and controls screen display. The system can also utilize remote eye tracking camera(s), remote displays and/or other ancillary inputs. Screen layout is optimized to facilitate the formation and reliable detection of rapid eye signals. The detection of eye signals is based on tracking physiological movements of the eye that are under voluntary control by the device wearer. The detection of eye signals results in actions that are compatible with wearable computing and a wide range of display devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2015Publication date: March 3, 2016Inventors: Nelson George Publicover, Lewis James Marggraff, Eliot Francis Drake, Spencer James Connaughton
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Publication number: 20060161487Abstract: A method of assigning a credit limits to individual credit applicants. The method utilizes an algorithm to determine the profitability of a credit account and applies the algorithm to a plurality of credit accounts using a chi squared method to group the accounts into segments. An optimization process is performed on each segment to determine a credit limit that yields the maximum profitability of accounts in that segment. Credit applicants are then given the credit limit corresponding to the segment into which they fall. A shadow policy is used to selectively increase a credit applicant's credit limit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2005Publication date: July 20, 2006Applicant: HSBC North America Holdings Inc.Inventors: Puneet Saxena, Tushar Waghmare, James Connaughton