Patents by Inventor João Manuel de Castro Afonso

João Manuel de Castro Afonso 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).

  • Patent number: 11694409
    Abstract: A split-architecture for rendering and warping world-locked AR elements, such as graphics in a navigation application, for display on augmented reality (AR) glasses is disclosed. The split-architecture can help to alleviate a resource burden on the AR glasses by performing the more complex processes associated with the rendering and warping on a computing device, while performing the less complex processes associated with the rendering and warping on the AR glasses. The AR glasses and the computing device are coupled via wireless communication, and the disclosed systems and methods address the large and variable latencies associated with the wireless communication that could otherwise make splitting these processes impractical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Sazzadur Rahman, Konstantine Nicholas John Tsotsos, João Manuel de Castro Afonso, José Carlos Maranhão Pascoal, Ivo Duarte, Nuno Cruces
  • Patent number: 11681358
    Abstract: A method includes projecting an augmented reality (AR) user interface (UI) at a first position on a surface of a head-mounted display (HMD) device through which a view of a real-world scene is seen by a viewer, and detecting a motion of the HMD device corresponding to a head motion of the viewer. The method further includes, in response to the motion of the HMD device, moving the projected AR UI across the surface of the HMD device to a second position, the movement of the projected AR UI spatially and or temporally lagging the head motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Sazzadur Rahman, Konstantine Nicholas John Tsotsos, João Manuel de Castro Afonso, José Carlos Maranhão Pascoal, Ivo Duarte, Nuno Cruces
  • Publication number: 20230185365
    Abstract: A method includes projecting an augmented reality (AR) user interface (UI) at a first position on a surface of a head-mounted display (HMD) device through which a view of a real-world scene is seen by a viewer, and detecting a motion of the HMD device corresponding to a head motion of the viewer. The method further includes, in response to the motion of the HMD device, moving the projected AR UI across the surface of the HMD device to a second position, the movement of the projected AR UI spatially and or temporally lagging the head motion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Sazzadur Rahman, Konstantine Nicholas John Tsotsos, João Manuel de Castro Afonso, José Carlos Maranhão Pascoal, Ivo Duarte, Nuno Cruces
  • Publication number: 20230177778
    Abstract: A split-architecture for rendering and warping world-locked AR elements, such as graphics in a navigation application, for display on augmented reality (AR) glasses is disclosed. The split-architecture can help to alleviate a resource burden on the AR glasses by performing the more complex processes associated with the rendering and warping on a computing device, while performing the less complex processes associated with the rendering and warping on the AR glasses. The AR glasses and the computing device are coupled via wireless communication, and the disclosed systems and methods address the large and variable latencies associated with the wireless communication that could otherwise make splitting these processes impractical.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Sazzadur Rahman, Konstantine Nicholas John Tsotsos, João Manuel de Castro Afonso, José Carlos Maranhão Pascoal, Ivo Duarte, Nuno Cruces
  • Publication number: 20120192070
    Abstract: An interactive sound system is provided. The interactive sound system includes a plurality of sound channels arranged in a hierarchy, a representation of real space, a visual arrangement of the plurality of sound channels over the representation of real space, a user interface for simultaneous management of more than one sound channel in parallel, and a processing module. The processing module is configured to apply a user-attributed behavior to a sound channel over a hierarchically transmitted behavior, automatically assign a behavior to a sound channel following the activation of an automatic trigger, accept a manual assignment of a behavior to a sound channel following the activation of a human-operated trigger, and override a sound channel with an alarm behavior.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2012
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Inventors: Manuel Dias Lima de Faria, Luis Filipe Veigas, João Manuel de Castro Afonso