Patents by Inventor James Nakashima

James Nakashima 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).

  • Gaze-actuated user interface with visual feedback
    Patent number: 10146303
    Abstract: A method to provide visual feedback for gazed-based user-interface navigation includes presenting, on a display, a first image representing a digital object available for user interaction, recognizing a user gaze axis, and computing a point of intersection of the user gaze axis through the first image. An offset distance between the point of intersection and a reference position of the first image then recognized, and a second image is presented on the display. The second image is presented displaced from the point of intersection by an amount dependent on the offset distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Alberto Cerriteno, Aaron Chandler Jeromin, Megan Saunders, Dan Osborn, Adam Christopher Heaney, Forest Woodcroft Gouin, James Nakashima, Patrick Ryan
  • System and method for spawning drawing surfaces
    Patent number: 9898865
    Abstract: A method for operating a computing device is described herein. The method includes determining a user's gaze direction based on a gaze input, determining an intersection between the user's gaze direction and an identified environmental surface in a 3-dimensional environment, and generating a drawing surface based on the intersection within a user interface on a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Joe Thompson, Dan Osborn, Tarek Hefny, Stephen G. Latta, Forest Woodcroft Gouin, James Nakashima, Megan Saunders, Anatolie Gavriliuc, Alberto E. Cerriteno, Shawn Crispin Wright
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SPAWNING DRAWING SURFACES
    Publication number: 20160371886
    Abstract: A method for operating a computing device is described herein. The method includes determining a user's gaze direction based on a gaze input, determining an intersection between the user's gaze direction and an identified environmental surface in a 3-dimensional environment, and generating a drawing surface based on the intersection within a user interface on a display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Joe Thompson, Dan Osborn, Tarek Hefny, Stephen G. Latta, Forest Woodcroft Gouin, James Nakashima, Megan Saunders, Anatolie Gavriliuc, Alberto E. Cerriteno, Shawn Crispin Wright
  • GAZE-ACTUATED USER INTERFACE WITH VISUAL FEEDBACK
    Publication number: 20160209917
    Abstract: A method to provide visual feedback for gazed-based user-interface navigation includes presenting, on a display, a first image representing a digital object available for user interaction, recognizing a user gaze axis, and computing a point of intersection of the user gaze axis through the first image. An offset distance between the point of intersection and a reference position of the first image then recognized, and a second image is presented on the display. The second image is presented displaced from the point of intersection by an amount dependent on the offset distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventors: Alberto Cerriteno, Aaron Chandler Jeromin, Megan Saunders, Dan Osborn, Adam Christopher Heaney, Forest Woodcroft Gouin, James Nakashima, Patrick Ryan