Patents by Inventor Kevin Edward Dean

Kevin Edward Dean 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: 20240078711
    Abstract: A multi-dimensional encoder (“MDE”) receives a file with different data points. Each data point is defined with uncompressed multi-dimensional data. The multi-dimensional data may include multiple elements for defining a data point position (e.g., a multi-dimensional position including x, y, and/or z coordinates), color values of the data point (e.g., red, green, and blue), and/or other data point attributes. The MDE assigns an index to each data point or each data point element, and maps the data points to a frequency domain based on a frequency with which values occur in two or more of the elements (e.g., multiple dimensions). The MDE generates a line that represents the frequency, and provides a compressed file format to a requesting device that includes the line and different sets of indices that are associated with different frequencies represented by the line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Illuscio, Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin Edward Dean
  • Patent number: 11893684
    Abstract: Disclosed is an encoding and decoding system and associated methods for producing a compressed waveform that encodes data points of a point cloud in a format and size that may be transmitted over a data network, decompressed, decoded, and rendered on a remote device without the buffering or lag associated with transmitting and rendering an uncompressed point cloud. The encoder receives a request from a remote device to access the point cloud, encodes a set of data points from the point cloud as one or more signals derived from values defined for the positional and non-positional elements of each data point from the set of data points, generates one or more compressed waveforms from compressing the one or more signals and transmits the one or more compressed waveforms to the remote device in response to the request for decompression, decoding, and image rendering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Illuscio, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Monaghan, Fatemeh Jamalidinan, Mark Weingartner, Dwayne Elahie, Kevin Edward Dean
  • Patent number: 11804013
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system and associated methods for generating a mutable tree to efficiently access data within a three-dimensional (“3D”) environment. The system generates the mutable tree with a root node defined at a root node position, a first branch with nodes for each of a first set of subdivided regions that are a first distance from the root node position, and a second branch with nodes for each of a second set of subdivided regions that are a second distance from the root node position. The system sorts the mutable tree in response to a request to access data from a first position within the 3D environment so that the first node in the first branch is the first subtree node that is closest to the first position, and the first node in the second branch is the second subtree node that is closest to the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Illuscio, Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin Edward Dean
  • Patent number: 11748945
    Abstract: Disclosed is an encoding and decoding system and associated methods for producing a compressed waveform that encodes data points of a point cloud in a format and size that may be transmitted over a data network, decompressed, decoded, and rendered on a remote device without the buffering or lag associated with transmitting and rendering an uncompressed point cloud. The encoder receives a request from a remote device to access the point cloud, encodes a set of data points from the point cloud as one or more signals derived from values defined for the positional and non-positional elements of each data point from the set of data points, generates one or more compressed waveforms from compressing the one or more signals and transmits the one or more compressed waveforms to the remote device in response to the request for decompression, decoding, and image rendering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Illuscio, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Monaghan, Fatemeh Jamalidinan, Mark Weingartner, Dwayne Elahie, Kevin Edward Dean
  • Patent number: 11670052
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system and associated methods for generating a mutable tree to efficiently access data within a three-dimensional (“3D”) environment. The system generates the mutable tree with a root node defined at a root node position, a first branch with nodes for each of a first set of subdivided regions that are a first distance from the root node position, and a second branch with nodes for each of a second set of subdivided regions that are a second distance from the root node position. The system sorts the mutable tree in response to a request to access data from a first position within the 3D environment so that the first node in the first branch is the first subtree node that is closest to the first position, and the first node in the second branch is the second subtree node that is closest to the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Illuscio, Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin Edward Dean