Patents by Inventor Loren C. Shih

Loren C. Shih 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: 9030411
    Abstract: The invention provides systems and methods for using a “haptic camera” within a virtual environment and for using graphical data from the haptic camera to produce touch feedback. The haptic camera obtains graphical data pertaining to virtual objects within the vicinity and along the trajectory of a user-controlled haptic interface device. The graphical data from the camera is interpreted haptically, thereby allowing touch feedback corresponding to the virtual environment to be provided to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: 3D Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Brandon D. Itkowitz, Loren C. Shih, Marc Douglass Midura, Joshua E. Handley, William Alexander Goodwin
  • Publication number: 20140333625
    Abstract: The invention provides systems and methods for using a “haptic camera” within a virtual environment and for using graphical data from the haptic camera to produce touch feedback. The haptic camera obtains graphical data pertaining to virtual objects within the vicinity and along the trajectory of a user-controlled haptic interface device. The graphical data from the camera is interpreted haptically, thereby allowing touch feedback corresponding to the virtual environment to be provided to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: 3D Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Brandon D. Itkowitz, Loren C. Shih, Marc Douglass Midura, Joshua E. Handley, William Alexander Goodwin
  • Patent number: 7990374
    Abstract: The invention provides methods for leveraging data in the graphics pipeline of a 3D graphics application for use in a haptic rendering of a virtual environment. The invention provides methods for repurposing graphical information for haptic rendering. Thus, at least part of the work that would have been performed by a haptic rendering process to provide touch feedback to a user is obviated by work performed by the graphical rendering process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: SensABLE Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Brandon D. Itkowitz, Loren C. Shih, Marc Douglass Midura, Joshua E. Handley, William Alexander Goodwin