Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Rogers

Jeffrey Rogers 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).

  • Control of Personal Space Content Presented Via Head Mounted Display
    Publication number: 20160299563
    Abstract: Methods and systems for filtering content include identifying content for presenting in a rendering space defined by one or more mechanisms of a head mounted display (HMD), wherein the content is interactive, streaming content. A rating score for the content is identified. The content is dynamically adjusted to selectively filter a portion of the content based on a user profile of the user, rating score of the content, and ongoing interactions detected at the content. The adjusted content is formatted for rendering on the HMD. The formatted content is automatically transmitted to the HMD for rendering, in response to the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Inventors: Jeffrey Roger Stafford, Frederick Umminger, Richard Marks
  • REVERSIBLY INACTIVATED THERMOSTABLE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASES, COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS FOR USE
    Publication number: 20160264950
    Abstract: The present invention provides reversibly inactivated reverse transcriptase enzymes, particularly those having increased thermostability and/or thermoreactivity and compositions, methods and kits that include such enzymes, for the reverse transcription of nucleic acid molecules. Also provided are compositions and methods for the reactivation of reversibly inactivated reverse transcriptases. More particularly, the present invention relates to compositions and methods that can increase the speed of reactivation and stabilize reactivation of chemically modified reverse transcriptase enzymes prior to, or as part of a reverse transcription reaction. As compared to existing compositions and methods, the reversibly inactivated reverse transcriptase enzymes of the present invention provide for a significant reduction in non-specific reverse transcription from template nucleic acid molecules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Jeffrey Rogers, Bianca Lam, Joanna Guo, Lushen Li
  • RADIOLIGANDS FOR IMAGING THE LPA-1 RECEPTOR
    Publication number: 20160256577
    Abstract: The present invention relates to radiolabeled LPA1 receptor antagonists or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof which are useful for the quantitative imaging of LPA1 receptors in mammals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2014
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Inventors: Thomas Jon Seiders, David J. Donnelly, Samuel J. Bonacorsi, JR., Kai Cao, Tritin Tran, Adrienne Pena, Joonyoung Kim, Richard E. Carson, Nabel Nabulsi, Jean-Dominique Gallezot, Yiyun Huang, Jeffrey Roger Roppe
  • Offline Progress of console game via portable device
    Patent number: 9421460
    Abstract: Methods systems and computer programs method for playing a game using a portable device are presented. One method includes operations for establishing a connection between a portable device and a computing system executing a game, and for receiving a task at the portable device from the computing system. Further, the portable device is disconnected from the computing system allowing the task to be performed using the portable device independently from the computing system. The method includes interaction of a user with the portable device to receive at the portable device input from the user to perform the task. Once the task is performed, the portable device reports that the task has been performed to the computing system. As a result, the game being executed in the computing system progresses after the portable device reports that the task has been performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Yunpeng Zhu, Steven Osman, Jeffrey Roger Stafford
  • Event Dosimeter Device and Methods Thereof
    Publication number: 20160228045
    Abstract: A method including a dosimetry device having at least one sensor in a housing and a dosimetry processing device with a memory. The dosimtery processing device is coupled to the at least one sensor in the housing. The dosimetry processing device is configured to execute programmed instructions stored in the memory comprising: obtaining readings from the sensor; storing the readings; conducting an analysis of the stored readings to determine an injury risk assessment; and outputting at least one of the conducted analysis of the determined injury risk assessment or the stored readings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Applicant: Rochester Institute of Technology
    Inventors: David A. Borkholder, Gregory T.A. Kovacs, Jeffrey Rogers
  • Camera Based Safety Mechanisms for Users of Head Mounted Displays
    Publication number: 20160214016
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for warning a user of a head mounted display during gameplay of a video game. A game is executed causing interactive scenes of the game to be rendered on a display portion of a head mounted display (HMD) worn by a user. Images of a physical environment in a vicinity of the user are received from a forward facing camera of the HMD, while the game is being executed. The images are analyzed to determine if the user is approaching one or more objects in the physical environment. Data is sent to be rendered on the display portion of the HMD while rendering the interactive scenes of the game. The data provides information to avoid interaction with the one or more objects in the physical environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventor: Jeffrey Roger Stafford
  • Methods and Systems for User Interaction within Virtual Reality Scene using Head Mounted Display
    Publication number: 20160187969
    Abstract: Inertial sensors within a head mounted display are used to track movement of the head mounted display. The tracked movement of the head mounted display is correlated to an action within a virtual reality scene that is currently displayed to a user wearing the head mounted display. The action within the virtual reality scene is based on a context of the virtual reality scene that is currently displayed. The detected movement of the head mounted display can be combined with other sensor data, such as gaze detection data, to determine the action within the virtual reality scene. In this manner, movements of the user as detected using the inertial sensors within the head mounted display are used as inputs to cause actions within the current context of the virtual reality scene as displayed to the user within the head mounted display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Eric Larsen, Frederick Umminger, Xiaoyong Ye, Noam Rimon, Jeffrey Roger Stafford, Xia Lou
  • Automated adjustment of audio effects in electronic game
    Patent number: 9378611
    Abstract: A machine and method of adjusting audio effects of a game played on an electronic gaming machine. The machine and method featuring an electronic audio file format having a plurality of audio files, a plurality of text markers and a plurality of script files, with each audio file having an audio property that can provide a different acoustic effect. During processing and play of the audio file, a text marker associated with a predetermined script file can be identified. The text marker can stop the audio filed being played and play a second audio file with a different audio property different from the prior audio file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: INCREDIBLE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Jeffrey Rogers Powell
  • Event dosimeter devices and methods thereof
    Patent number: 9339224
    Abstract: A dosimetry device includes at least one sensor in a housing and a dosimetry processing device with a memory. The dosimetry processing device is coupled to the at least one sensor in the housing. The dosimetry processing device is configured to execute programmed instructions stored in the memory comprising: obtaining readings from the sensor; storing the readings; conducting an analysis of the stored readings to determine an injury risk assessment; and outputting at least one of the conducted analysis of the determined injury risk assessment or the stored readings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignees: Rochester Institute of Technology, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
    Inventors: David A. Borkholder, Gregory T. A. Kovacs, Jeffrey Rogers
  • REALTIME LENS ABERRATION CORRECTION FROM EYE TRACKING
    Publication number: 20160091720
    Abstract: Systems and methods include receiving an image for presenting on a display screen of a head mounted display (HMD). The image is provided by an application. The received image is pre-distorted to enable optics provided in a HMD to render the image. An alignment offset is identified for an eye of a user wearing the HMD by determining a position of the eye relative to an optical axis of at least one lens of the optics of the HMD. The pre-distorted image provided by the application is adjusted to define a corrected pre-distorted image that accounts for the alignment offset. The corrected pre-distorted image is forwarded to the display screen of the HMD for rendering, such that the image presented through the optics of the HMD removes aberrations caused by the alignment offset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: Jeffrey Roger Stafford, Eric Larsen
  • DISPLAY OF TEXT INFORMATION ON A HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY
    Publication number: 20160093105
    Abstract: A method for presenting text information on a head-mounted display is provided, comprising: rendering a view of a virtual environment to the head-mounted display; tracking an orientation of the head-mounted display; tracking a gaze of a user of the head-mounted display; processing the gaze of the user and the orientation of the head-mounted display, to identify a gaze target in the virtual environment towards which the gaze of the user is directed; receiving text information for rendering on the head-mounted display; presenting the text information in the virtual environment in a vicinity of the gaze target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: Noam Rimon, Jeffrey Roger Stafford
  • Method and apparatus for automated display of documentation
    Patent number: 9299058
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for automated display of documentation is disclosed. The method comprises identifying a selected item in a user interface, performing a pattern match of the identified item against a documentation database, and displaying documentation for the identified item found in the documentation database based on the pattern match.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: ADOBE SYSTEMS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Ben Jeffrey Rogers
  • System and method for estimation and classification of barcodes using heuristic and statistical measures
    Patent number: 9275264
    Abstract: In a system and method of estimating and classifying a barcode using heuristic and statistical measures, a classification determination is generated for each of a plurality of estimated barcode digits that correspond to a decoded barcode estimation. The classification determination is selected from one of a first classification determination and a second classification determination. The first classification determinations among a plurality of estimation determinations are aggregated. The aggregated first classification determinations are compared to a first predetermined threshold to determine a validity of the decoded barcode estimation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: eBay Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Roger Powers, Vikas Muppiddi Reddy
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING FEEDBACK TO A USER WHILE INTERACTING WITH CONTENT
    Publication number: 20160054837
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing feedback to a user are described. One of the methods includes sending interactive data for rendering on a head mounted display (HMD). The HMD is configured for attachment to a head of a user for playing a game. The method further includes receiving image data associated with a body part of the user while the HMD is worn by the user and the HMD renders interactive content. The method includes tracking a spatial position associated with the body part of the user from the image data of the user. In the method, physical placement of a remote-controlled device at the spatial position associated with the body part of the user is rendered in the HMD as virtual contact with an object in the interactive content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventor: Jeffrey Roger Stafford
  • Heterocyclic autotaxin inhibitors and uses thereof
    Patent number: 9260416
    Abstract: Described herein are compounds that are inhibitors of autotaxin. Also described are pharmaceutical compositions and medicaments that include the compounds described herein, as well as methods of using such inhibitors, alone and in combination with other compounds, for treating autotaxin-dependent or autotaxin-mediated conditions or diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: AMIRA PHARMACEUTICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Roger Roppe, Timothy Andrew Parr, John Howard Hutchinson
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING DEFORMED LINEAR BARCODES FROM A STREAM OF VARIED-FOCUS VIDEO FRAMES
    Publication number: 20150363628
    Abstract: In a system and method of recognizing a barcode from a stream of video frames, a processor-implemented camera module receives a stream of video frames, with at least one video frame including a barcode. A processor-implemented barcode blur estimate module estimates an amount of defocus blur in a video frame. The processor-implemented barcode blur estimate module further estimates an identity of the barcode. A processor-implemented barcode localization module identifies a region of the video frame containing the barcode. A processor-implemented barcode geometric modeler module generates a geometric model of the barcode that includes an identified barcode deformity. A processor-implemented barcode decoder module decodes the barcode from the video frame using the estimated amount of defocus blur, the estimated identity of the barcode, and the geometric model of the barcode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2015
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventors: Jeffrey Roger Powers, Vikas Muppiddi Reddy
  • Method and system for access to secure resources
    Patent number: 9183683
    Abstract: A system and method for accessing secured resources using a portable device. When a user with such a portable device is within close proximity to a locked door or other secured resource, a verification process can be automatically initiated on the device. The user verification could utilize all the input and sensor methods on the device. Once the identification process has successfully completed, an access code can be transmitted to the locked door or device via wired or wireless network. This allows for reduced electronics required at these locked doors and allows for more dynamic security measures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: SONY COMPUTER ENTERTAINMENT INC.
    Inventors: Steven Osman, Jeffrey Roger Stafford, Yunpeng Zhu
  • System and Method for Visualization of Optimized Protein Expression
    Publication number: 20150267209
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a novel recombinant gene expression system and a method of its use. The recombinant gene expression system is adapted to enable a user to monitor the successful expression of a protein in real time by allowing a small portion (e.g., less than 10%) of the target protein to be expressed as a fusion with a readily detectable reporter. The recombinant gene expression system further allows a user to select a clone that exhibits high, medium or low expression by providing a random ribosomal binding site having the nucleotide sequence N4R6NX, where N is A, T, G, or C, where R is A or G, and where x is an integer from 6 to 11 (SEQ ID NO: 1) upstream of the cloned gene. By selecting a clone exhibiting a desired relative level of reporter gene expression, a user can tailor the expression level of the desired protein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: Jeffrey Rogers, Julia Fletcher, Kevin Lowitz
  • GAMING DEVICE WITH ROTATABLY PLACED CAMERAS
    Publication number: 20150258431
    Abstract: A method to identify positions of fingers of a hand is described. The method includes capturing images of a first hand using a plurality of cameras that are part of a wearable device. The wearable device is attached to a wrist of a second hand and the plurality of cameras of the wearable device is disposed around the wearable device. The method includes repeating capturing of additional images of the first hand, the images and the additional images captured to produce a stream of captured image data during a session of presenting the virtual environment in a head mounted display (HMD). The method includes sending the stream of captured image data to a computing device that is interfaced with the HMD. The computing device is configured to process the captured image data to identify changes in positions of the fingers of the first hand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventors: Jeffrey Roger Stafford, Todd Tokubo
  • GAMING DEVICE WITH VOLUMETRIC SENSING
    Publication number: 20150258432
    Abstract: A method for enhancing detection of a user's hand relative to a head-mounted display (HMD) is described. The method includes sensing a disrupted portion of energy by sensors integrated within a pad device. The disrupted portion of the energy is generated when the hand of the user interferes with the energy. The plurality of sensors that sense the disrupted portion of the energy produce an energy image that mirrors a current position of the hand. The method includes repeating the sensing continuously to produce a stream of energy images. The method includes communicating the stream of energy images to a game console for processing each of the energy images to produce a model of the hand and movement of the model of the hand. The model of the hand is at least partially rendered as a virtual hand in a virtual environment that is displayed in the HMD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventors: Jeffrey Roger Stafford, Todd Tokubo