Patents by Inventor Jonathan Kies

Jonathan Kies 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: 12277726
    Abstract: An imaging system can receive an image of a portion of an environment. The environment can include an object, such as a hand or a display. The imaging device can identify a data stream from an external device, for instance by detecting the data stream in the image or by receiving the data stream wirelessly from the external device. The imaging device can detect a condition based on the image and/or the data stream, for instance by detecting that the object is missing from the image, by detecting that a low resource at the imaging device, and/or by detecting visual media content displayed by a display in the image. Upon detecting the condition, imaging device automatically determines a location of the object (or a portion thereof) using the data stream and/or the image. The imaging device generates and/or outputs content that is based on the location of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Bijan Forutanpour, Sebastien Mounier, Jonathan Kies
  • Patent number: 12259951
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are described for token device transfer management. A system identifies, in a payload of at least one block of a distributed ledger, a token corresponding to media content. A parameter of the token in the distributed ledger indicates that the token is associated with a first user. The system identifies a device that is associated with the token and the media content. The device is also associated with the first user. The system identifies that the device has been relocated to an area associated with a second user. In response to identifying that the device has been relocated to the area, the system causes the parameter of the token in the distributed ledger to be modified from indicating that the token is associated with the first user to indicating that the token is associated with the second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wesley James Holland, Jonathan Kies, Brian Vogelsang, Abhijeet Bisain, William Whyte, Michael Franco Taveira
  • Patent number: 12175457
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are described for situational token-associated media output. A system receives sensor data captured by at least one sensor of a media device. The system identifies, based on the sensor data, a relationship between the media device and an anchor element that is associated with a token. The system identifies the token in a payload of at least one block of a distributed ledger. The token corresponds to media content according to the distributed ledger. The system generates a representation of the media content corresponding to the token. In response to identifying the relationship between the media device and the anchor element, the system outputs the representation of the media content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Wesley James Holland, Jonathan Kies, Brian Vogelsang, Abhijeet Bisain, William Whyte, Michael Franco Taveira
  • Patent number: 12020390
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses (or devices), methods, and computer-readable media are provided for generating virtual content. For example, a device (e.g., an extended reality device) can obtain an image of a scene of a real-world environment, wherein the real-world environment is viewable through a display of the extended reality device as virtual content is displayed by the display. The device can detect at least a part of a physical hand of a user in the image. The device can generate a virtual keyboard based on detecting at least the part of the physical hand. The device can determine a position for the virtual keyboard on the display of the extended reality device relative to at least the part of the physical hand. The device can display the virtual keyboard at the position on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Scott Beith, Jonathan Kies, Robert Tartz, Ananthapadmanabhan Arasanipalai Kandhadai
  • Patent number: 11960652
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory media are provided for presenting information associated with at least one input option. An example method can include receiving data identifying one or more input options associated with a first device in a scene; determining, including using at least one memory, information relevant to at least one of the scene, the first device, and a user associated with a second device; and based on the one or more input options and the information, output user guidance data corresponding to an input option for which relevant context information has been determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jonathan Kies, Leonid Sheynblat
  • Patent number: 11934572
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are described for extended reality (XR) operations. An XR system displays virtual content using a display according to display settings. The display settings can identify, for instance, a position, orientation, and/or size of the virtual content as displayed. The environment can be viewable using the display as the virtual content is displayed by the display, for example using a see-through display or a pass-through display. The imaging system can determine, based on one or more attributes of one or both eyes of the user of the imaging system, an extent of perception of the virtual content that is displayed using the display by the user. The attributes can identify, for instance, eye position, eye movement, pupil dilation, saccades, fixations, blinking, and/or squinting. The XR system can determine, based on the extent of perception of the virtual content by the user, a modification to the display settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Bijan Forutanpour, Jonathan Kies
  • Patent number: 11922594
    Abstract: Techniques and systems are provided for dynamically adjusting virtual content provided by an extended reality system. In some examples, a system determines a level of distraction of a user of the extended reality system due to virtual content provided by the extended reality system. The system determines whether the level of distraction of the user due to the virtual content exceeds or is less than a threshold level of distraction, where the threshold level of distraction is determined based at least in part on one or more environmental factors associated with a real world environment in which the user is located. The system also adjusts one or more characteristics of the virtual content based on the determination of whether the level of distraction of the user due to the virtual content exceeds or is less than the threshold level of distraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Robert Tartz, Jonathan Kies, Daniel James Guest
  • Patent number: 11861065
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory media are provided for using a wearable ring device for extended reality (XR) functionalities. An example wearable device can include a structure defining a receiving space configured to receive a finger associated with a user, the structure including a first surface configured to contact the finger received via the receiving space; one or more sensors integrated into the structure, the one or more sensors being configured to detect a rotation of at least a portion of the structure about a longitudinal axis of the receiving space; and a wireless transmitter configured to send, to an electronic device, data based on the rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sebastien Mounier, Ramesh Chandrasekhar, Jonathan Kies, Tom Edward Botterill
  • Patent number: 11847793
    Abstract: An imaging system can receive an image of a portion of an environment. The environment can include an object, such as a hand or a display. The imaging device can identify a data stream from an external device, for instance by detecting the data stream in the image or by receiving the data stream wirelessly from the external device. The imaging device can detect a condition based on the image and/or the data stream, for instance by detecting that the object is missing from the image, by detecting that a low resource at the imaging device, and/or by detecting visual media content displayed by a display in the image. Upon detecting the condition, imaging device automatically determines a location of the object (or a portion thereof) using the data stream and/or the image. The imaging device generates and/or outputs content that is based on the location of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Bijan Forutanpour, Sebastien Mounier, Jonathan Kies
  • Patent number: 11836301
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory media are provided for tracking operations using data received from a wearable device. An example method can include determining a first position of a wearable device in a physical space; receiving, from the wearable device, position information associated with the wearable device; determining a second position of the wearable device based on the received position information; and tracking, based on the first position and the second position, a movement of the wearable device relative to an electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sebastien Mounier, Tom Edward Botterill, Jonathan Kies, Ramesh Chandrasekhar
  • Patent number: 11765318
    Abstract: A device may be configured to determining display properties for virtual content in an environment with a plurality of physical participants by capturing an image of the environment, analyzing the captured image to identify at least one object in the environment, determining a parameter for the identified object, and determining a display property of a digital representation of virtual content based on the determined parameter. Embodiments may include negotiating display properties with other devices to generate coordinated display properties, and rendering the digital representation of the virtual content so that the remote participant appears to be in the same fixed position to all co-located participants and sized consistent with the co-located participants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jonathan Kies, Robert Tartz, Daniel James Guest
  • Patent number: 11740694
    Abstract: Various embodiments include processing devices and methods for managing multisensor inputs on a mobile computing device. Various embodiments may include receiving multiple inputs from multiple touch sensors, identifying types of user interactions with the touch sensors from the multiple inputs, identifying sensor input data in a multisensor input data structure corresponding with the types of user interactions, and determining whether the multiple inputs combine as a multisensor input in an entry in the multisensor input data structure having the sensor input data related to a multisensor input response. Various embodiments may include detecting a trigger for a multisensor input mode, entering the multisensor input mode in response to detecting the trigger, and enabling processing of an input from a touch sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Robyn Teresa Oliver, Robert Tartz, Douglas Brems, Suhail Jalil, Jonathan Kies
  • Patent number: 11635810
    Abstract: Various embodiments include processing devices and methods for managing multisensor inputs on a mobile computing device. Various embodiments may include receiving multiple inputs from multiple touch sensors, identifying types of user interactions with the touch sensors from the multiple inputs, identifying sensor input data in a multisensor input data structure corresponding with the types of user interactions, and determining whether the multiple inputs combine as a multisensor input in an entry in the multisensor input data structure having the sensor input data related to a multisensor input response. Various embodiments may include detecting a trigger for a multisensor input mode, entering the multisensor input mode in response to detecting the trigger, and enabling processing of an input from a touch sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Robyn Teresa Oliver, Robert Tartz, Douglas Brems, Suhail Jalil, Jonathan Kies
  • Publication number: 20230078612
    Abstract: Techniques and systems are provided for dynamically adjusting virtual content provided by an extended reality system. In some examples, a system determines a level of distraction of a user of the extended reality system due to virtual content provided by the extended reality system. The system determines whether the level of distraction of the user due to the virtual content exceeds or is less than a threshold level of distraction, where the threshold level of distraction is determined based at least in part on one or more environmental factors associated with a real world environment in which the user is located. The system also adjusts one or more characteristics of the virtual content based on the determination of whether the level of distraction of the user due to the virtual content exceeds or is less than the threshold level of distraction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Robert TARTZ, Jonathan Kies, Daniel James Guest
  • Patent number: 11587297
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses (or devices), methods, and computer-readable media are provided for generating virtual content. For example, a device (e.g., an extended reality device) can obtain an image of a scene of a real-world environment, wherein the real-world environment is viewable through a display of the extended reality device as virtual content is displayed by the display. The device can detect at least a part of a physical hand of a user in the image. The device can generate a virtual keyboard based on detecting at least the part of the physical hand. The device can determine a position for the virtual keyboard on the display of the extended reality device relative to at least the part of the physical hand. The device can display the virtual keyboard at the position on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Scott Beith, Jonathan Kies, Robert Tartz, Ananthapadmanabhan Arasanipalai Kandhadai
  • Patent number: 11460918
    Abstract: Various embodiments include processing devices and methods for managing multisensor inputs on a mobile computing device. Various embodiments may include receiving multiple inputs from multiple touch sensors, identifying types of user interactions with the touch sensors from the multiple inputs, identifying sensor input data in a multisensor input data structure corresponding with the types of user interactions, and determining whether the multiple inputs combine as a multisensor input in an entry in the multisensor input data structure having the sensor input data related to a multisensor input response. Various embodiments may include detecting a trigger for a multisensor input mode, entering the multisensor input mode in response to detecting the trigger, and enabling processing of an input from a touch sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Robyn Teresa Oliver, Robert Tartz, Douglas Brems, Suhail Jalil, Jonathan Kies
  • Patent number: 11461986
    Abstract: Techniques and systems are provided for dynamically adjusting virtual content provided by an extended reality system. In some examples, a system determines a level of distraction of a user of the extended reality system due to virtual content provided by the extended reality system. The system determines whether the level of distraction of the user due to the virtual content exceeds or is less than a threshold level of distraction, where the threshold level of distraction is determined based at least in part on one or more environmental factors associated with a real world environment in which the user is located. The system also adjusts one or more characteristics of the virtual content based on the determination of whether the level of distraction of the user due to the virtual content exceeds or is less than the threshold level of distraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Robert Tartz, Jonathan Kies, Daniel James Guest
  • Patent number: 11353956
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a processor of the mobile computing device may receive an input for performing a function with respect to content at the mobile device in which the content at the mobile device is segmented into at least a first command layer having one or more objects and a second command layer having one or more objects. The processor may determine whether the received input is associated with a first object of the first command layer or a second object of the second command layer. The processor may determine a function to be performed on one of the first or second objects based on whether the first command layer or the second command layer is determined to be associated with the received input, and the processor may perform the determined function on the first object or the second object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jonathan Kies, Robyn Teresa Oliver, Robert Tartz, Douglas Brems, Suhail Jalil
  • Patent number: 11270515
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses (or devices), methods, and computer-readable media are provided for generating virtual content. For example, a device (e.g., an extended reality device) can obtain an image of a scene of a real-world environment, wherein the real-world environment is viewable through a display of the extended reality device as virtual content is displayed by the display. The device can detect at least a part of a physical hand of a user in the image. The device can generate a virtual keyboard based on detecting at least the part of the physical hand. The device can determine a position for the virtual keyboard on the display of the extended reality device relative to at least the part of the physical hand. The device can display the virtual keyboard at the position on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Scott Beith, Jonathan Kies, Robert Tartz, Ananthapadmanabhan Arasanipalai Kandhadai
  • Patent number: D1030782
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jonathan Kies, Marshal Fontaine, Chad Willkie, Kelby Fuchs, Daren Bader, Angelo Francisco Vildasol, Elvis Perry, Jeffrey John Roorda