Patents by Inventor Kyle James O'Connor

Kyle James O'Connor 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: 12380188
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, apparatus, and systems for seamless biometric self-enrollment. The method including automatically: capturing, by a biometric capture device, biometric modality data for a user in response to a presentation of a user trusted credential for logical access or access to an object during an enrollment process, determining, by an enrollment system, whether biometric modalities for the user are stable, generating a biometric modality template for each unstable biometric modality, replacing a matched stored biometric modality template with the biometric modality template when the biometric modality template is qualitatively better than the matched stored biometric modality template, performing stability accounting when the matched stored biometric modality template is at least qualitatively equal to the biometric modality template, and initiating access processing when at least all biometric modalities are stable and verified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Princeton Identity
    Inventors: David Alan Ackerman, Kenneth R. Boutot, James DiNapoli, Paul DuPiano, Jean-Michel Florent, Andrew McGalliard, Erik Myhrer, Kyle James O'Connor, Sean Singer, Bobby Varma
  • Patent number: 11832059
    Abstract: An illustrative wearable hearing device or hearing aid includes: a speaker that converts a reproduced signal into reproduced audio; a microphone that converts ambient audio into a receive signal, the ambient audio potentially including a feedback component; a feedback filter that filters the reproduced signal to obtain an estimated feedback component; a combiner that derives the reproduced signal from the receive signal at least in part by subtracting the estimated feedback component; and a controller that, subject to an adaptation rate, adjusts coefficients of the feedback filter to at least partially cancel the feedback component, the controller varying the adaption rate based at least in part on one or more proximity sensor signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventor: Kyle James O'Shaughnessy
  • Publication number: 20230350996
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, apparatus, and systems for face biometric recognition. A biometric recognition device includes at least one non-visible illuminator, at least one image capture device, and a processor. The at least one image capture device and the at least one non-visible illuminator are in a differential measurement configuration. The processor determines one or more eyes and a face from one or more captured images, performs liveness detection by comparing one or more pupil images from even-odd image pairs from the one or more captured images, wherein a non-noise color or brightness difference indicates pupil liveness, performs face encoding on the live face to generate face template, performs face matching on the face template to generate a face result, and uses one or more of the liveness result and the face result to enable the user to access an object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: Princeton Identity
    Inventors: Kyle James O'Connor, Erik Myhrer, David Alan Ackerman
  • Publication number: 20230254648
    Abstract: An illustrative wearable hearing device or hearing aid includes: a speaker that converts a reproduced signal into reproduced audio; a microphone that converts ambient audio into a receive signal, the ambient audio potentially including a feedback component; a feedback filter that filters the reproduced signal to obtain an estimated feedback component; a combiner that derives the reproduced signal from the receive signal at least in part by subtracting the estimated feedback component; and a controller that, subject to an adaptation rate, adjusts coefficients of the feedback filter to at least partially cancel the feedback component, the controller varying the adaption rate based at least in part on one or more proximity sensor signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Applicant: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventor: Kyle James O'Shaughnessy
  • Publication number: 20220253514
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, apparatus, and systems for seamless biometric self-enrollment. The method including automatically: capturing, by a biometric capture device, biometric modality data for a user in response to a presentation of a user trusted credential for logical access or access to an object during an enrollment process, determining, by an enrollment system, whether biometric modalities for the user are stable, generating a biometric modality template for each unstable biometric modality, replacing a matched stored biometric modality template with the biometric modality template when the biometric modality template is qualitatively better than the matched stored biometric modality template, performing stability accounting when the matched stored biometric modality template is at least qualitatively equal to the biometric modality template, and initiating access processing when at least all biometric modalities are stable and verified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: Princeton Identity
    Inventors: David Alan Ackerman, Kenneth R. Boutot, James DiNapoli, Paul DuPiano, Jean-Michel Florent, Drew McGalliard, Erik Myhrer, Kyle James O'Connor, Sean Singer, Bobby Varma