Patents by Inventor Kent Austin White

Kent Austin White 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).

  • Publication number: 20240054153
    Abstract: A multimedia query system is described that includes a multimedia capture system configured to capture raw multimedia data comprising at least one of raw video data or raw audio data, a metadata engine configured to extract one or more anchor points of metadata from the raw multimedia data and to store the one or more anchor points of metadata, wherein the anchor points of metadata includes references to respective portions of the raw multimedia data. The multimedia query system further includes a storage engine configured to store the raw multimedia data, a recall engine configured to receive a query and to apply the query to the one or more anchor points of metadata to identify one or more raw multimedia data candidates from the portions of the raw multimedia data, and a query engine configured to generate a response to the query based on the one or more raw multimedia data candidates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Vincent Charles CHEUNG, Tali ZVI, Kent Austin WHITE, Kevin LIN
  • Patent number: 11836179
    Abstract: A multimedia query system is described that includes a multimedia capture system configured to capture raw multimedia data comprising at least one of raw video data or raw audio data, a metadata engine configured to extract one or more anchor points of metadata from the raw multimedia data and to store the one or more anchor points of metadata, wherein the anchor points of metadata includes references to respective portions of the raw multimedia data. The multimedia query system further includes a storage engine configured to store the raw multimedia data, a recall engine configured to receive a query and to apply the query to the one or more anchor points of metadata to identify one or more raw multimedia data candidates from the portions of the raw multimedia data, and a query engine configured to generate a response to the query based on the one or more raw multimedia data candidates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Vincent Charles Cheung, Tali Zvi, Kent Austin White, Kevin Lin
  • Patent number: 10701316
    Abstract: A video conferencing system is described that includes an image capture system configured to capture image data of a participant in a video conferencing session, a pose tracker configured to track a pose of the participant based on the captured image data, a user interface (UI) element generator configured to generate a UI element, a rendering engine configured to render, based on the pose of the participant, at a position locked relative to a position of the participant in the image data, the UI element for display by the video conferencing system, a gesture detector configured to detect, from the image data, a gesture performed by the participant with respect to the rendered UI element, and a video conferencing application configured to perform an action in response to the gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Vincent Charles Cheung, Kent Austin White