Patents by Inventor Joseph Wayne Chauvin

Joseph Wayne Chauvin 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: 8854357
    Abstract: Computer-readable media, computer systems, and computing devices facilitate presentation of selectors in three-dimensional graphical environments. In embodiments, an obscured region being obscured by an element appearing in front of one or more elements within a three-dimensional graphical environment is determined. In cases that a selector (e.g., a cursor) is located within the obscured region, the selector is presented in accordance with a depth position of the element associated with the obscured region. Such a depth position can indicate a distance at which the element is intended to appear relative to a display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventor: Joseph Wayne Chauvin
  • Publication number: 20120194503
    Abstract: Computer-readable media, computer systems, and computing devices facilitate presentation of selectors in three-dimensional graphical environments. In embodiments, an obscured region being obscured by an element appearing in front of one or more elements within a three-dimensional graphical environment is determined. In cases that a selector (e.g., a cursor) is located within the obscured region, the selector is presented in accordance with a depth position of the element associated with the obscured region. Such a depth position can indicate a distance at which the element is intended to appear relative to a display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2011
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventor: JOSEPH WAYNE CHAUVIN
  • Publication number: 20120092364
    Abstract: Computer-readable media, computer systems, and computing devices facilitate presenting two-dimensional elements over media content to provide three-dimensional effects of the two-dimensional elements relative to the media content. In embodiments, element attributes that indicate a position and/or a size of a two-dimensional element are referenced. Such element attributes are used, along with an eye distance and a visual depth, to calculate a modified position and/or modified size of the two-dimensional element. The two-dimensional element is overlaid relative to media content in accordance with the modified position and/or modified size of the two-dimensional object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventor: JOSEPH WAYNE CHAUVIN
  • Patent number: D658193
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Greenwood, Joseph Wayne Chauvin