Patents by Inventor Jonathan Esterly

Jonathan Esterly 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: 10169918
    Abstract: Computer systems, methods, and storage media for rendering a holographic object in accordance with a physical relationship between the holographic object and an identified physical object. Virtual properties are assigned to a physical object, and in response to detecting a change to the physical relationship between the holographic object and the physical object, the holographic object is rendered according to a modification defined, at least in part, by the change to the physical relationship and by the properties assigned to the physical object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Eric Scott Rehmeyer, Alexander James Hogan, Peter W. Carlson, Jessica Zahn, Jonathan Esterly
  • Publication number: 20170372518
    Abstract: Computer systems, methods, and storage media for rendering a holographic object in accordance with a physical relationship between the holographic object and an identified physical object. Virtual properties are assigned to a physical object, and in response to detecting a change to the physical relationship between the holographic object and the physical object, the holographic object is rendered according to a modification defined, at least in part, by the change to the physical relationship and by the properties assigned to the physical object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Eric Scott Rehmeyer, Alexander James Hogan, Peter W. Carlson, Jessica Zahn, Jonathan Esterly
  • Publication number: 20160299642
    Abstract: Reducing a number of selectable options on a display is provided. An option selection engine generates a slider control on the display. The slider control includes a number of options. The option selection engine receives an input on the slider control for selecting one of the options. In response to the input received on the slider control, the option selection engine displays a variations group, selected from among multiple variations groupings, on the display. The displayed variations group is associated with the option selected from the slider control. Each of the multiple variations groupings is associated with a different option. The option selection engine receives a user selection of a variation from the previously displayed variations group. The option selection engine applies the received user selection to a displayed object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2015
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC.
    Inventors: Jonathan Esterly, Amani Ahmed Dye
  • Patent number: D677674
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Benjamin Edward Rampson, Jonathan Esterly, Christina Chen Campbell
  • Patent number: D677675
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Benjamin Edward Rampson, Jonathan Esterly
  • Patent number: D677676
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Benjamin Edward Rampson, Jonathan Esterly
  • Patent number: D677678
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Jonathan Esterly
  • Patent number: D677679
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher D. Edwards, Mark E. Pearson, Jonathan Esterly, Jonathan S. Kaufthal, Tyler Robert Adams, Marcos David Marin Amador
  • Patent number: D677680
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher D. Edwards, Mark E. Pearson, Jonathan Esterly, Jonathan S. Kaufthal, Tyler Robert Adams, Marcos David Marin Amador
  • Patent number: D678301
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Jonathan Esterly
  • Patent number: D687454
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher D. Edwards, Kyle Matthew von Haden, March Rogers, Ryan Heaney, Jonathan Esterly
  • Patent number: D689068
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher D. Edwards, Kyle Matthew von Haden, March Rogers, Ryan Heaney, Jonathan Esterly
  • Patent number: D689069
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher D. Edwards, Kyle Matthew von Haden, March Rogers, Ryan Heaney, Jonathan Esterly
  • Patent number: D695783
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher D. Edwards, Mark E. Pearson, Jonathan Esterly
  • Patent number: D699752
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher D. Edwards, Mark E. Pearson, Jonathan Esterly, Jonathan S. Kaufthal, Kyle Matthew von Haden, Ryan Heaney
  • Patent number: D705801
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Melissa Susan Kerr, Jonathan Esterly
  • Patent number: D705802
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Melissa Susan Kerr, Jonathan Esterly, Nathaniel Eric Breskin Auer, Hiroshi Tsukahara, Krista Bendig, Clinton Dee Covington
  • Patent number: D729825
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher D. Edwards, Jonathan Esterly, Nathaniel Eric Breskin Auer, Keri Talbot
  • Patent number: D798324
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan Esterly, Daniel Edward Fairweather, Taili Feng, Linnea Smolentzov