Patents by Inventor Kelly Elizabeth Dobson
Kelly Elizabeth Dobson 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).
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Publication number: 20240069639Abstract: A haptic system can include a user device including one or more haptic actuators and one or more sensors. The haptic system can be configured to perform operations including controlling the haptic actuator(s) to produce a haptic output based on a haptic output profile associated with a desired action of a user of the haptic system; detecting, using the one or more sensors, one or more user response characteristics in response to the haptic output; determining, based at least in part on the one or more user response characteristics, data describing a user action of the user performed after the haptic actuator(s) produces the haptic output; comparing the data describing the user action with data indicative of the desired action to generate an effectiveness metric; and determining a subsequent haptic output profile for a subsequent haptic output based at least in part on the effectiveness metric.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2020Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Kelly Elizabeth Dobson, Franziska Schlagenhauf, William Earl Singhose, Khalid Lief Sorensen, Nina R. Sinatra
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Patent number: 11715362Abstract: A wearable device can include a wearable band configured to contact a user of the wearable device, an actuator, a sensor, and one or more processors in communication with the actuator and the sensor. The processors can be configured to measure a back electromotive force (“EMF”) of the actuator; determine, based on the measured back EMF, data that describes a contact force between the wearable band and the user; and determine, based on the data that describes the contact force, a quality metric describing a data quality of sensor data collected by the sensor. In some embodiments, the processor(s) can determine, generate sensor output data based on the sensor data and based at least in part on the data describing the contact force between the wearable band and the user. For example, one or more machine-learned models maybe leveraged to generate sensor output data that is compensated for the wearable band being too tight or too loose.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2021Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Franziska Schlagenhauf, Nina R. Sinatra, Kurtis Robert Gross, Kelly Elizabeth Dobson, Artem Dementyev, Alex Olwal, Richard Francis Lyon
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Publication number: 20230005354Abstract: A wearable device can include a wearable band configured to contact a user of the wearable device, an actuator, a sensor, and one or more processors in communication with the actuator and the sensor. The processors can be configured to measure a back electromotive force (“EMF”) of the actuator; determine, based on the measured back EMF, data that describes a contact force between the wearable band and the user; and determine, based on the data that describes the contact force, a quality metric describing a data quality of sensor data collected by the sensor. In some embodiments, the processor(s) can determine, generate sensor output data based on the sensor data and based at least in part on the data describing the contact force between the wearable band and the user. For example, one or more machine-learned models maybe leveraged to generate sensor output data that is compensated for the wearable band being too tight or too loose.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2021Publication date: January 5, 2023Inventors: Franziska Schlagenhauf, Nina R. Sinatra, Kurt Gross, Kelly Elizabeth Dobson, Artem Dementyev, Alex Olwal, Richard Francis Lyon
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Patent number: 11402915Abstract: Systems and methods of providing mediated social interactions are provided. For instance, a user input from a first user indicative a request to facilitate a provision of emotive contextual signals to a second user can be received. One or more emotive contextual signals to be provided to the second user can be determined based at least in part on the user input. The one or more first emotive contextual signals can include one or more haptic feedback signals intended to facilitate a mediated social interaction associated with the second user.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2021Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventor: Kelly Elizabeth Dobson
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Publication number: 20220187922Abstract: The present disclosure provides touch communication devices that can convey touch information to a human user and/or receive touch information from the human user. As one example, a touch communication device can include a plurality of tactile units. The touch communication device can individually control each of the tactile units to apply a respective pressure to a surface adjacent to such tactile unit. For example, the touch communication device can control the plurality of tactile units to convey a touch communication to a human user that has the touch communication device adjacent to a portion of his body. As another example, the touch communication device is configured to determine a counter-pressure applied to each tactile unit by the surface adjacent to such tactile unit. The touch communication device can generate information descriptive of a touch communication performed by the human user on the touch communication device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2022Publication date: June 16, 2022Inventors: Kelly Elizabeth Dobson, Rafeed A. Chaudhury, Nicolai Munk Petersen, Steve Albert Oh, Demetrious Mark Harrington, Ara Knaian, Shahriar Khushrushahi, Elena Koukina, Rachel Chaney, Veton Saliu, Yvan Stephane Pearson Lecours
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Patent number: 11269416Abstract: The present disclosure provides touch communication devices that can convey touch information to a human user and/or receive touch information from the human user. As one example, a touch communication device can include a plurality of tactile units. The touch communication device can individually control each of the tactile units to apply a respective pressure to a surface adjacent to such tactile unit. For example, the touch communication device can control the plurality of tactile units to convey a touch communication to a human user that has the touch communication device adjacent to a portion of his body. As another example, the touch communication device is configured to determine a counter-pressure applied to each tactile unit by the surface adjacent to such tactile unit. The touch communication device can generate information descriptive of a touch communication performed by the human user on the touch communication device.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2018Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Kelly Elizabeth Dobson, Rafeed A. Chaudhury, Nicolai Munk Petersen, Steve Albert Oh, Demetrious Mark Harrington, Ara Knaian, Shahriar Khushrushahi, Elena Koukina, Rachel Chaney, Veton Saliu, Yvan Stephane Pearson Lecours
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Publication number: 20210149492Abstract: Systems and methods of providing mediated social interactions are provided. For instance, a user input from a first user indicative a request to facilitate a provision of emotive contextual signals to a second user can be received. One or more emotive contextual signals to be provided to the second user can be determined based at least in part on the user input. The one or more first emotive contextual signals can include one or more haptic feedback signals intended to facilitate a mediated social interaction associated with the second user.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2021Publication date: May 20, 2021Inventor: Kelly Elizabeth Dobson
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Publication number: 20210121136Abstract: A wearable device includes one or more sensors configured to generate data associated with one or more physiological characteristics of a user of the wearable device and one or more control circuits configured to obtain the data associated with the one or more physiological characteristics of the user and transmit the data to a remote computing device in response to detecting a proximity event associated with the wearable device and the remote computing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2020Publication date: April 29, 2021Inventors: Kelly Elizabeth Dobson, Daniel Mark Kaufman
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Publication number: 20210077011Abstract: A wearable device includes at least one attachment member and an electrodermal activity (EDA) sensor comprising an integrated electrode pair physically coupled to the at least one attachment member. The electrodermal activity sensor is configured to provide an EDA signal in response to contact between the integrated electrode pair and a skin surface of a user. The integrated electrode pair includes at least two concentric electrodes radially separated by at least one insulator. Each of the at least two concentric electrodes includes an upper surface configured to contact the skin surface of the user in order to generate the EDA signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2020Publication date: March 18, 2021Inventors: Julian Maclaren, Kurtis Robert Gross, Christopher Workman, Rafeed A. Chaudhury, Vahe Tshitoyan, Kelly Elizabeth Dobson
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Patent number: 10884502Abstract: Systems and methods of providing mediated social interactions are provided. For instance, a user input from a first user indicative of a request to facilitate a provision of emotive contextual signals to a second user can be received. One or more emotive contextual signals to be provided to the second user can be determined based at least in part on the user input. The one or more emotive contextual signals can include one or more haptic feedback signals intended to facilitate a mediated social interaction associated with the second user.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2017Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: Google LLCInventor: Kelly Elizabeth Dobson
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Publication number: 20200272237Abstract: The present disclosure provides touch communication devices that can convey touch information to a human user and/or receive touch information from the human user. As one example, a touch communication device can include a plurality of tactile units. The touch communication device can individually control each of the tactile units to apply a respective pressure to a surface adjacent to such tactile unit. For example, the touch communication device can control the plurality of tactile units to convey a touch communication to a human user that has the touch communication device adjacent to a portion of his body. As another example, the touch communication device is configured to determine a counter-pressure applied to each tactile unit by the surface adjacent to such tactile unit. The touch communication device can generate information descriptive of a touch communication performed by the human user on the touch communication device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2018Publication date: August 27, 2020Inventors: Kelly Elizabeth Dobson, Rafeed A. Chaudhury, Nicolai Munk Petersen, Steve Albert Oh, Demetrious Mark Harrington, Ara Knaian, Shahriar Khushrushahi, Elena Koukina, Rachel Chaney, Veton Saliu, Yvan Stephane Pearson Lecours
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Publication number: 20190317605Abstract: Systems and methods of providing mediated social interactions are provided. For instance, a user input from a first user indicative of a request to facilitate a provision of emotive contextual signals to a second user can be received. One or more emotive contextual signals to be provided to the second user can be determined based at least in part on the user input. The one or more emotive contextual signals can include one or more haptic feedback signals intended to facilitate a mediated social interaction associated with the second user.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2017Publication date: October 17, 2019Inventor: Kelly Elizabeth Dobson
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Patent number: 8545228Abstract: Objects that interact with a user at a visceral level when the object comes within the user's personal environment. The objects detect a user's visceral behavior, for example breathing pattern or perspiration. In response to the visceral behavior the object simulates a behavior of a living entity such as breathing, or produces an output to which the user responds viscerally, such as an electric field. The form of the output or simulated behavior is determined by the visceral behavior. The output or simulated behavior may be modified to guide the user's visceral behavior, for example by first synchronizing simulated breathing to the user's breathing and then slowing down while the user's breathing is entrained to the simulated breathing. One such object has a skin that is warm to the touch, and simulates breathing with a breathing sound. Another such object produces electric fields like electric fields of the heart.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2009Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventor: Kelly Elizabeth Dobson
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Publication number: 20100112537Abstract: Objects that interact with a user at a visceral level when the object comes within the user's personal environment. The objects detect a user's visceral behavior, for example breathing pattern or perspiration. In response to the visceral behavior the object simulates a behavior of a living entity such as breathing, or produces an output to which the user responds viscerally, such as an electric field. The form of the output or simulated behavior is determined by the visceral behavior. The output or simulated behavior may be modified to guide the user's visceral behavior, for example by first synchronizing simulated breathing to the user's breathing and then slowing down while the user's breathing is entrained to the simulated breathing. One such object has a skin that is warm to the touch, and simulates breathing with a breathing sound. Another such object produces electric fields like electric fields of the heart.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2009Publication date: May 6, 2010Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Kelly Elizabeth Dobson