Patents by Inventor Jim McKee
Jim McKee 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: 11969666Abstract: Locomotion-based motion sickness has long been a complaint amongst virtual reality gamers and drone pilots. Traditional head-mounted display experiences require a handheld controller (e.g. thumbstick, touchpad, gamepad, keyboard, etc.) for locomotion. Teleportation compromises immersive presence and smooth navigation leads to sensory imbalances that can cause dizziness and nausea (even when using room-scale sensor systems). Designers have therefore had to choose between comfort and immersion. The invention is a hands-free, body-based navigation technology that puts the participant's body in direct control of movement through virtual space. Participants lean forward to advance in space; lean back to reverse; tip left or right to strafe/sidestep; and rotate to look around. In some embodiments, the more a participant leans, the faster they go.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: MONKEYmedia, Inc.Inventors: Eric Justin Gould Bear, Rachel M. Strickland, Jim McKee
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Publication number: 20220168660Abstract: Traditional head-mounted display experiences require a hand controller (e.g. thumbstick, touchpad, gamepad, keyboard, etc.) to manipulate audio controls. The invention is a hands-free, body-based navigation technology that puts the participant's body in direct control of movement through sonic space. Participants lean towards a sound source to make it louder and lean away to make it quieter. In some embodiments, the more a participant leans, the faster the volume changes. Because the interactions were designed to respond to natural bearing and balancing instincts, movement coordination is intuitive and easy to learn.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2022Publication date: June 2, 2022Inventors: Eric Justin Gould Bear, Rachel M. Strickland, Jim McKee
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Publication number: 20220146841Abstract: Locomotion-based motion sickness has long been a complaint amongst virtual reality gamers and drone pilots. Traditional head-mounted display experiences require a handheld controller (e.g. thumbstick, touchpad, gamepad, keyboard, etc.) for locomotion. Teleportation compromises immersive presence and smooth navigation leads to sensory imbalances that can cause dizziness and nausea (even when using room-scale sensor systems). Designers have therefore had to choose between comfort and immersion. The invention is a hands-free, body-based navigation technology that puts the participant's body in direct control of movement through virtual space. Participants lean forward to advance in space; lean back to reverse; tip left or right to strafe/sidestep; and rotate to look around. In some embodiments, the more a participant leans, the faster they go.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2022Publication date: May 12, 2022Inventors: Eric Justin Gould Bear, Rachel M. Strickland, Jim McKee
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Patent number: 11266919Abstract: Locomotion-based motion sickness has long been a complaint amongst virtual reality gamers and drone pilots. Traditional head-mounted display experiences require a handheld controller (e.g. thumb stick, touchpad, gamepad, keyboard, etc.) for locomotion. Teleportation compromises immersive presence and smooth navigation leads to sensory imbalances that can cause dizziness and nausea (even when using room-scale sensor systems). Designers have therefore had to choose between comfort and immersion. The invention is a hands-free, body-based navigation technology that puts the participant's body in direct control of movement through virtual space. Participants lean forward to advance in space; lean back to reverse; tip left or right to strafe/sidestep; and rotate to look around. In some embodiments, the more a participant leans, the faster they go.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2020Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: MONKEYMEDIA, INC.Inventors: Eric Justin Gould Bear, Rachel M. Strickland, Jim McKee
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Publication number: 20200197825Abstract: Locomotion-based motion sickness has long been a complaint amongst virtual reality gamers and drone pilots. Traditional head-mounted display experiences require a handheld controller (e.g. thumb stick, touchpad, gamepad, keyboard, etc.) for locomotion. Teleportation compromises immersive presence and smooth navigation leads to sensory imbalances that can cause dizziness and nausea (even when using room-scale sensor systems). Designers have therefore had to choose between comfort and immersion. The invention is a hands-free, body-based navigation technology that puts the participant's body in direct control of movement through virtual space. Participants lean forward to advance in space; lean back to reverse; tip left or right to strafe/sidestep; and rotate to look around. In some embodiments, the more a participant leans, the faster they go.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2020Publication date: June 25, 2020Inventors: Eric Justin Gould Bear, Rachel M. Strickland, Jim McKee
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Patent number: 10596478Abstract: In some embodiments, a head-mounted display apparatus with a visual display and one or more sensors may make navigation of virtual environments more natural. The invention enables a participant to pivot, tip and aim the apparatus to orient and move through virtual space hands-free.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2018Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: MONKEYmedia, Inc.Inventors: Eric Justin Gould Bear, Rachel M. Strickland, Jim McKee
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Publication number: 20180185763Abstract: In some embodiments, extemporaneous control of remote objects can be made more natural using the invention, enabling a participant to pivot, tip and aim a head-mounted display apparatus to control a remote-controlled toy or full-sized vehicle, for example, hands-free. If the vehicle is outfitted with a camera, then the participant may see the remote location from first-person proprioceptive perspective.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2018Publication date: July 5, 2018Inventors: Eric Justin Gould Bear, Rachel M. Strickland, Jim McKee
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Patent number: 9934539Abstract: The systems, methods, and GUIs of the present invention not only have the ability to display DICOM and non-DICOM images simultaneously, side-by-side in a single viewer, but also display a timeline corresponding to more than one healthcare study. A selection of more than one healthcare study from different sources, without requiring a single storage repository or single PACS system, is received and a viewer is launched for the selected studies. Any DICOM images are converted to a non-DICOM format such that non-DICOM images from the more than one healthcare study side-by-side in the viewer. A timeline corresponding to more than one healthcare study for a patient is provided. From the timeline, images from different sources can be selected and displayed side-by-side in the viewer in a non-DICOM format.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2011Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: CERNER INNOVATION, INC.Inventors: Carla Leighow, Troy Oliphant, Jim McKee, David A. Robaska, Shane Van Hook, John R. Quick
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Patent number: 9934356Abstract: The systems, methods, and GUIs of the present invention not only have the ability to display DICOM and non-DICOM images simultaneously, side-by-side in a single viewer, but also display a timeline corresponding to more than one healthcare study. A selection of more than one healthcare study from different sources, without requiring a single storage repository or single PACS system, is received and a viewer is launched for the selected studies. Any DICOM images are converted to a non-DICOM format such that non-DICOM images from the more than one healthcare study side-by-side in the viewer. A timeline corresponding to more than one healthcare study for a patient is provided. From the timeline, images from different sources can be selected and displayed side-by-side in the viewer in a non-DICOM format.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2011Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: CERNER INNOVATION, INC.Inventors: Carla Leighow, Troy Oliphant, Jim McKee, David A. Robaska, Shane Van Hook, John R. Quick
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Patent number: 9919233Abstract: In some embodiments, extemporaneous control of remote objects can be made more natural using the invention, enabling a participant to pivot, tip and aim a head-mounted display apparatus to control a remote-controlled toy or full-sized vehicle, for example, hands-free. If the vehicle is outfitted with a camera, then the participant may see the remote location from first-person proprioceptive perspective.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2017Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: MONKEYmedia, Inc.Inventors: Eric Justin Gould Bear, Rachel M. Strickland, Jim McKee
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Publication number: 20180028931Abstract: In some embodiments, extemporaneous control of remote objects can be made more natural using the invention, enabling a participant to pivot, tip and aim a head-mounted display apparatus to control a remote-controlled toy or full-sized vehicle, for example, hands-free. If the vehicle is outfitted with a camera, then the participant may see the remote location from first-person proprioceptive perspective.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2017Publication date: February 1, 2018Inventors: Eric Justin Gould Bear, Rachel M. Strickland, Jim McKee
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Patent number: 9791897Abstract: Departing from one-way linear cinema played on a single rectangular screen, this multi-channel virtual environment involves a cinematic paradigm that undoes habitual ways of framing things, employing architectural concepts in a polylinear video/sound construction to create a type of experience that allows the world to reveal itself and permits discovery on the part of participants. Techniques are disclosed for peripatetic navigation through virtual space with a handheld computing device, leveraging human spatial memory to form a proprioceptive sense of location, allowing a participant to easily navigate amongst a plurality of simultaneously playing videos and to center in front of individual video panes in said space, making it comfortable for a participant to rest in a fixed posture and orientation while selectively viewing any one of the video streams, and providing spatialized 3D audio cues that invite awareness of other content unfolding simultaneously in the virtual environment.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2015Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: MONKEYmedia, Inc.Inventors: Eric Justin Gould Bear, Rachel M. Strickland, Jim McKee
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Patent number: 9782684Abstract: In some embodiments, extemporaneous control of remote objects can be made more natural using the invention, enabling a participant to pivot, tip and aim a handheld display device to control a remote-controlled toy or full-sized vehicle, for example. If the vehicle is outfitted with a camera, then the participant may see the remote location from first-person proprioceptive perspective.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2017Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: MONKEYmedia, Inc.Inventors: Eric Justin Gould Bear, Rachel M. Strickland, Jim McKee
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Publication number: 20170146997Abstract: In some embodiments, extemporaneous control of remote objects can be made more natural using the invention, enabling a participant to pivot, tip and aim a head-mounted display apparatus to control a remote-controlled toy or full-sized vehicle, for example, hands-free. If the vehicle is outfitted with a camera, then the participant may see the remote location from first-person proprioceptive perspective.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2017Publication date: May 25, 2017Inventors: Eric Justin Gould Bear, Rachel M. Strickland, Jim McKee
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Publication number: 20170144079Abstract: In some embodiments, extemporaneous control of remote objects can be made more natural using the invention, enabling a participant to pivot, tip and aim a handheld display device to control a remote-controlled toy or full-sized vehicle, for example. If the vehicle is outfitted with a camera, then the participant may see the remote location from first-person proprioceptive perspective.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2017Publication date: May 25, 2017Inventors: Eric Justin Gould Bear, Rachel M. Strickland, Jim McKee
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Publication number: 20170144069Abstract: In some embodiments, a head-mounted apparatus with a visual display and one or more sensors may make navigation of virtual environments more natural. The invention enables a participant to pivot, tip and aim the apparatus to orient and move through virtual space hands-free.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2017Publication date: May 25, 2017Inventors: Eric Justin Gould Bear, Rachel M. Strickland, Jim McKee
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Patent number: 9656168Abstract: In some embodiments, a head-mounted apparatus with a visual display and one or more sensors may make navigation of virtual environments more natural. The invention enables a participant to pivot, tip and aim the apparatus to orient and move through virtual space hands-free.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2017Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: MONKEYmedia, Inc.Inventors: Eric Justin Gould Bear, Rachel M. Strickland, Jim McKee
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Patent number: 9658617Abstract: In some embodiments, extemporaneous control of remote objects can be made more natural using the invention, enabling a participant to pivot, tip and aim a head-mounted display apparatus to control a remote-controlled toy or full-sized vehicle, for example, hands-free. If the vehicle is outfitted with a camera, then the participant may see the remote location from first-person proprioceptive perspective.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2017Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: MONKEYmedia, Inc.Inventors: Eric Justin Gould Bear, Rachel M. Strickland, Jim McKee
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Patent number: 9612627Abstract: In some embodiments, a head-mounted apparatus with a visual display and one or more sensors may make navigation of virtual environments more natural. The invention enables a participant to pivot, tip and aim the apparatus to orient and move through virtual space hands-free.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2016Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: MONKEYmedia, Inc.Inventors: Eric Justin Gould Bear, Rachel M. Strickland, Jim McKee
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Patent number: 9579586Abstract: In some embodiments, extemporaneous control of remote objects can be made more natural using the invention, enabling a participant to pivot, tip and aim a handheld display device to control a remote-controlled toy or full-sized vehicle, for example. If the vehicle is outfitted with a camera, then the participant may see the remote location from first-person proprioceptive perspective.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2016Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: MONKEYmedia, Inc.Inventors: Eric Justin Gould Bear, Rachel M. Strickland, Jim McKee