Patents by Inventor Jules C. Graybill

Jules C. Graybill 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).

  • Image and audio data processing to create mutual presence in a video conference
    Patent number: 11785179
    Abstract: Systems and methods to improve video conferencing may include various improvements and modifications to image and audio data to simulate mutual presence among users. For example, automated positioning and presentation of image data of users via presentation devices may present users at a position, size, and scale to simulate mutual presence of users within a same physical space. In addition, rendering image data of users from virtual camera positions via presentation devices may simulate mutual eye gaze and mutual presence of users. Further, blending a background, or accentuating a user, within image data that is presented via presentation devices may match visual characteristics of the environment or the user to simulate mutual presence of users. Moreover, dynamic steering of individual audio transducers of an audio transducer array, and simulating audio point sources using a combination of speakers, may simulate direct communication and mutual presence of users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jules C. Graybill, Katherine M. Ryan, Maren Marie Costa, Marshall Friend Tappen, Kristina Lisa Klinkner
  • Image and audio data processing to create mutual presence in a video conference
    Patent number: 11451746
    Abstract: Systems and methods to improve video conferencing may include various improvements and modifications to image and audio data to simulate mutual presence among users. For example, automated positioning and presentation of image data of users via presentation devices may present users at a position, size, and scale to simulate mutual presence of users within a same physical space. In addition, rendering image data of users from virtual camera positions via presentation devices may simulate mutual eye gaze and mutual presence of users. Further, blending a background, or accentuating a user, within image data that is presented via presentation devices may match visual characteristics of the environment or the user to simulate mutual presence of users. Moreover, dynamic steering of individual audio transducers of an audio transducer array, and simulating audio point sources using a combination of speakers, may simulate direct communication and mutual presence of users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jules C. Graybill, Katherine M. Ryan, Maren Marie Costa, Marshall Friend Tappen, Kristina Lisa Klinkner, Gregory J. Bartlett, Robert Wadia Moses