Patents by Inventor James Woodall

James Woodall 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: 20190279636
    Abstract: In headset computers that leverage voice commands, often the user does not know what voice commands are available. In one embodiment, a method includes providing a user interface in a headset computer and, in response to user utterance of a cue toggle command, displaying at least one cue in the user interface. Each cue can correspond to a voice command associated with code to execute. In response to user utterance of the voice command, the method can also include executing the code associated with the voice command. The user can therefore ascertain what voice commands are available.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: James Woodall, Christopher Parkinson
  • Patent number: 10402162
    Abstract: Feedback mechanisms to the user of a Head Mounted Display (HMD) are provided. It is important to provide feedback to the user when speech is recognized as soon as possible after the user utters a voice command. The HMD displays and/or audibly renders an ASR acknowledgment in a manner that ensures the user that the HMD has received/understood his voiced command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: KOPIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Christopher Parkinson, James Woodall
  • Publication number: 20190146753
    Abstract: Feedback mechanisms to the user of a Head Mounted Display (HMD) are provided. It is important to provide feedback to the user when speech is recognized as soon as possible after the user utters a voice command. The HMD displays and/or audibly renders an ASR acknowledgment in a manner that ensures the user that the HMD has received/understood his voiced command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2019
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Christopher Parkinson, James Woodall
  • Patent number: 10209955
    Abstract: Feedback mechanisms to the user of a Head Mounted Display (HMD) are provided. It is important to provide feedback to the user when speech is recognized as soon as possible after the user utters a voice command. The HMD displays and/or audibly renders an ASR acknowledgment in a manner that ensures the user that the HMD has received/understood his voiced command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Kopin Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Parkinson, James Woodall
  • Publication number: 20180277114
    Abstract: In headset computers that leverage voice commands, often the user does not know what voice commands are available. In one embodiment, a method includes providing a user interface in a headset computer and, in response to user utterance of a cue toggle command, displaying at least one cue in the user interface. Each cue can correspond to a voice command associated with code to execute. In response to user utterance of the voice command, the method can also include executing the code associated with the voice command. The user can therefore ascertain what voice commands are available.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: James Woodall, Christopher Parkinson
  • Patent number: 10013976
    Abstract: In headset computers that leverage voice commands, often the user does not know what voice commands are available. In one embodiment, a method includes providing a user interface in a headset computer and, in response to user utterance of a cue toggle command, displaying at least one cue in the user interface. Each cue can correspond to a voice command associated with code to execute. In response to user utterance of the voice command, the method can also include executing the code associated with the voice command. The user can therefore ascertain what voice commands are available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Kopin Corporation
    Inventors: James Woodall, Christopher Parkinson
  • Patent number: 9817232
    Abstract: To assist with hands-free computing, the Head Mounted Display or Headset Computer utilizes a series of user configurable Home Pages that contain the shortcuts and widgets the user wants and one or more head movements. This allows the user to design a user interface environment which gives desired information, in the desired order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Kopin Corporation
    Inventors: Craig Lindley, James Woodall, David Niland, Jeffrey J. Jacobsen, Christopher Parkinson, Stephen A. Pombo
  • Patent number: 9316827
    Abstract: To assist with hands-free computing, the Head Mounted Display or Headset Computer utilizes a series of user configurable Home Pages that contain the shortcuts and widgets the user wants. This allows the user to design a user interface environment which gives him the information he wants, in the order he wants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Kopin Corporation
    Inventors: Craig Lindley, James Woodall, David Niland, Jeffrey J. Jacobsen, Christopher Parkinson, Stephen A. Pombo
  • Patent number: 9294607
    Abstract: The present invention related to human/computer interfaces and more particularly to a headset computing display device that accepts voice commands and tracks head motions to provide command inputs to and receive display information from a software application executed on a host computing device. An example embodiment of the present invention includes a method of, and corresponding system for, operating a native Smartphone or PC application, simultaneously displaying an output of the application through the Smartphone or PC screen and a headset computing display device, and using speech and head tracking commands to control the native application. The present invention enables hands-free operation of a Smartphone or PC application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: Kopin Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey J. Jacobsen, Christopher Parkinson, Stephen A. Pombo, James Woodall, David Hollick
  • Publication number: 20150346489
    Abstract: To assist with hands-free computing, the Head Mounted Display or Headset Computer utilizes a series of user configurable Home Pages that contain the shortcuts and widgets the user wants and one or more head movements. This allows the user to design a user interface environment which gives desired information, in the desired order.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Craig Lindley, James Woodall, David Niland, Jeffrey J. Jacobsen, Christopher Parkinson, Stephen A. Pombo
  • Publication number: 20150220506
    Abstract: A system for communicating document annotations includes a host computing platform having a first processor and a transmitter for transmitting information. The system further includes a head mounted display device having a second processor, a micro-display driven by the second processor and a receiver for receiving information from the remote host. The information from the remote host includes information representative of a document and information representative of one or more annotations. The second processor combines the information representative of a document with the information representative of one or more annotations to produce an annotated document, and displays the annotated document on the micro-display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: Christopher Parkinson, Jeffrey J. Jacobsen, Luke Hopkins, James Woodall, William Connell
  • Publication number: 20150142440
    Abstract: Feedback mechanisms to the user of a Head Mounted Display (HMD) are provided. It is important to provide feedback to the user when speech is recognized as soon as possible after the user utters a voice command. The HMD displays and/or audibly renders an ASR acknowledgment in a manner that ensures the user that the HMD has received/understood his voiced command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Christopher Parkinson, James Woodall
  • Publication number: 20150072672
    Abstract: The present invention related to human/computer interfaces and more particularly to a headset computing display device that accepts voice commands and tracks head motions to provide command inputs to and receive display information from a software application executed on a host computing device. An example embodiment of the present invention includes a method of, and corresponding system for, operating a native Smartphone or PC application, simultaneously displaying an output of the application through the Smartphone or PC screen and a headset computing display device, and using speech and head tracking commands to control the native application. The present invention enables hands-free operation of a Smartphone or PC application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventors: Jeffrey J. Jacobsen, Christopher Parkinson, Stephen A. Pombo, James Woodall, David Hollick
  • Patent number: 8929954
    Abstract: The present invention related to human/computer interfaces and more particularly to a headset computing display device that accepts voice commands and tracks head motions to provide command inputs to and receive display information from a software application executed on a host computing device. An example embodiment of the present invention includes a method of, and corresponding system for, operating a native Smartphone or PC application, simultaneously displaying an output of the application through the Smartphone or PC screen and a headset computing display device, and using speech and head tracking commands to control the native application. The present invention enables hands-free operation of a Smartphone or PC application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Kopin Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey J. Jacobsen, Christopher Parkinson, Stephen A. Pombo, James Woodall, David Hollick
  • Publication number: 20140111427
    Abstract: To assist with hands-free computing, the Head Mounted Display or Headset Computer utilizes a series of user configurable Home Pages that contain the shortcuts and widgets the user wants. This allows the user to design a user interface environment which gives him the information he wants, in the order he wants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: Kopin Corporation
    Inventors: Craig Lindley, James Woodall, David Niland, Jeffrey J. Jacobsen, Christopher Parkinson, Stephen A. Pombo
  • Publication number: 20130288753
    Abstract: The present invention related to human/computer interfaces and more particularly to a headset computing display device that accepts voice commands and tracks head motions to provide command inputs to and receive display information from a software application executed on a host computing device. An example embodiment of the present invention includes a method of, and corresponding system for, operating a native Smartphone or PC application, simultaneously displaying an output of the application through the Smartphone or PC screen and a headset computing display device, and using speech and head tracking commands to control the native application. The present invention enables hands-free operation of a Smartphone or PC application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: KOPIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jeffrey J. Jacobsen, Christopher Parkinson, Stephen A. Pombo, James Woodall, David Hollick
  • Publication number: 20130231937
    Abstract: In headset computers that leverage voice commands, often the user does not know what voice commands are available. In one embodiment, a method includes providing a user interface in a headset computer and, in response to user utterance of a cue toggle command, displaying at least one cue in the user interface. Each cue can correspond to a voice command associated with code to execute. In response to user utterance of the voice command, the method can also include executing the code associated with the voice command. The user can therefore ascertain what voice commands are available.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Applicant: KOPIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: James Woodall, Christopher Parkinson
  • Publication number: 20050065839
    Abstract: Methods for generating an aggregate report to provide a certification of controls associated with a data set include identifying sources that generate information to be included in the data set. A plurality of controls associated with the identified sources are identified. At least one of the controls is selected as a key control. The key control is tested to assess its efficacy as a control for its identified source. The key control is modified to adjust its efficacy based on the testing of the key control when the efficacy fails to satisfy a criterion. An aggregate report is generated on the plurality of controls based on the testing of the key control to provide a certification of the controls associated with the data set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2004
    Publication date: March 24, 2005
    Inventors: Debra Benson, Janet McKinley, Stephanie Smith, Charles Lathram, Guy Cochran, Raymond Winborne, James Woodall, Edward Martinez