Abstract: A system and method for generating input data from a pose estimate for a pose (position and orientation) of a manipulated object operated in a three-dimensional environment that offers optical features. The manipulated object has an on-board photodetector for providing light data and an on-board auxiliary motion detection component for providing relative motion data indicative of a change in an orientation, a change in position or both (relative change in pose). A processor in communication with the on-board photodetector and auxiliary motion detection component uses light data to determine an absolute pose estimate at times ti and relative motion data to determine a relative pose change. The processor deploys a technique that combines the absolute pose estimate from the light data and the relative pose change from the relative motion data to provide the pose estimate at an application request time tr.

Abstract: The present invention discloses systems and methods for both viewing and interacting with a virtual reality (VR), an augmented reality (AR) or a mixed reality (MR). More specifically, the systems and methods allow the user to interact with aspects of such realities including virtual items presented in such realities or within such environments by manipulating a control device that has an inside-out camera mounted on-board. The apparatus or system uses two distinct representations including a reduced representation in determining the pose of the control device and uses these representations to compute an interactive pose portion of the control device to be used for interacting with the virtual item. The reduced representation is consonant with a constrained motion of the control device.

Abstract: The present invention concerns methods and apparatus for perturbing a known contextualization of an underlying proposition adopted by a group of subjects that are considered in a quantum representation. Initially, the subjects belonging to the group exhibit the known contextualization modulo the proposition and also have known measurable indications in the known contextualization. Perturbation is due to injection into the group of a disruptive subject that exhibits a Fermi-Dirac (F-D) anti-consensus statistic modulo the underlying proposition. A monitoring unit and a statistics module are deployed to collect and study subsequent measurable indications from subjects in the group after injection of the disruptive subject and upon re-confronting of the underlying proposition. The perturbation is thus detected and changes in the quantum representation due to it are estimated.

Abstract: The present invention discloses systems and methods for both viewing and interacting with a virtual reality (VR), an augmented reality (AR) or a mixed reality (MR). More specifically, the systems and methods allow the user to interact with aspects of such realities including virtual items presented in such realities or within such environments by manipulating a control device that has an inside-out camera mounted on-board. The apparatus or system uses two distinct representations including a reduced representation in determining the pose of the control device and uses these representations to compute an interactive pose portion of the control device to be used for interacting with the virtual item. The reduced representation is consonant with a constrained motion of the control device.

Abstract: The present invention concerns methods and apparatus for perturbing a known contextualization of an underlying proposition adopted by a group of subjects that are considered in a quantum representation. Initially, the subjects belonging to the group exhibit the known contextualization modulo the proposition and also have known measurable indications in the known contextualization. Perturbation is due to injection into the group of a disruptive subject that exhibits a Fermi-Dirac (F-D) anti-consensus statistic modulo the underlying proposition. A monitoring unit and a statistics module are deployed to collect and study subsequent measurable indications from subjects in the group after injection of the disruptive subject and upon re-confronting of the underlying proposition. The perturbation is thus detected and changes in the quantum representation due to it are estimated.

Abstract: A manipulated object using high optical contrast features and an on-board photodetector that detects light produced, reflected or scattered by the features and outputs data indicative thereof. The manipulated object uses one or more controllers to determine its position and/or orientation, including full pose, in the real three-dimensional environment based on data from the photodetector. Data from one or more auxiliary motion sensing devices, e.g., a relative motion sensor such as an inertial device or other auxiliary motion device relying on acoustics, optics or electromagnetic waves within or outside the visible spectrum, can be used to supplement the position and/or orientation data from the photodetector. The manipulated object can be embodied by any suitable device manipulated by a user, including a tablet computer or a phone.

Abstract: A manipulated object using high optical contrast features and an on-board photodetector that detects light produced, reflected or scattered by the features and outputs data indicative thereof. The manipulated object uses one or more controllers to determine its position and/or orientation, including full pose, in the real three-dimensional environment based on data from the photodetector. Data from one or more auxiliary motion sensing devices, e.g., a relative motion sensor such as an inertial device or other auxiliary motion device relying on acoustics, optics or electromagnetic waves within or outside the visible spectrum, can be used to supplement the position and/or orientation data from the photodetector. The manipulated object can be embodied by any suitable device manipulated by a user, including a tablet computer or a phone.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to methods and apparatus for predicting the quantum state, including the dynamics of such quantum state in so far as it represents a subject embedded in a community of community subjects. In the quantum representation adopted herein the internal states of all subjects are assigned to quantum subject states defined with respect to an underlying proposition about an item that can be instantiated by an object, a subject or by an experience. Contextualization of the proposition about the item is identified with a basis (eigenbasis of a spectral decomposition) referred to herein as the social value context. The dynamics are obtained from quantum interactions on a graph onto which the quantum states of all the subjects are mapped by a surjective mapping dictated by subject interconnections and subject-related data, including the social graph and information derived from “big data”.

Abstract: A remotely controlled object (e.g., an aircraft) or a wearable article (e.g., virtual or augmented reality glasses) using high optical contrast features and a photodetector that detects light produced, reflected or scattered by the features and outputs data indicative thereof. The remotely controlled object or wearable article uses one or more controllers to determine its position and/or orientation in the real three-dimensional environment based on data from the photodetector. Data from one or more auxiliary motion sensing devices, e.g., a relative motion sensor such as an inertial device or other auxiliary motion device relying on acoustics, optics or electromagnetic waves within or outside the visible spectrum, can be used to supplement the position and/or orientation data from the photodetector.

Abstract: Efficient techniques of recovering the pose of an optical apparatus exploiting structural redundancies due the conditioned motion of an apparatus are disclosed. The techniques are based on determining a reduced homography consonant to the conditioned motion of the optical apparatus. The optical apparatus comprises an optical sensor on which space points are imaged as measured image points. The reduced homography is based on a reduced representation of the space points, obtained by exploiting the structural redundancy in the measured image points due to the conditioned motion. The reduced representation consonant with the conditioned motion is defined by rays in homogeneous coordinates and contained in a projective plane of the optical sensor.

Abstract: The present invention concerns methods and apparatus for detecting perturbations to previously established and known contextualizations practiced or exhibited by subjects when confronted by certain propositions about original items. The subjects are understood to be any sentient beings, e.g., human beings that use the known contextualizations modulo the propositions and also exhibit known measurable indications in response to these propositions. Measurable indications can take on the form of responses, actions, behaviors or any measurable aspects that can be collected from the subjects in response to the propositions. The perturbation to the contextualization that is adopted by the subjects is due to altering the original item to generate an altered item and placing the altered item at the center of the proposition that was previously apprehended by the subjects to be about the original item.

Abstract: The present invention discloses apparatus and methods for the viewing of a reality, and in particular a comfortable and pleasant viewing of the reality by a user. The reality is viewed by the user with a viewing mechanism that may involve optics. The reality viewed may be a virtual reality, an augmented reality or a mixed reality. A projection mechanism renders the scene for the user and modifies one or more virtual objects present in the scene. The modification performed is based on one or more properties of an inside-out camera. The modification and the associated property/properties of the inside-out camera are suitably chosen to fit an application need such as to provide a pleasant and comfortable viewing experience for the user. The inside-out camera may be attached to the viewing mechanism, which may be worn by the user. The reality viewed may be from the viewpoint of the user, or from the viewpoint of another device detached from the user.

Abstract: A remotely controlled object (e.g., an aircraft) or a wearable article (e.g., virtual or augmented reality glasses) using high optical contrast features and a photodetector that detects light produced, reflected or scattered by the features and outputs data indicative thereof. The remotely controlled object or wearable article uses one or more controllers to determine its position and/or orientation in the real three-dimensional environment based on data from the photodetector. Data from one or more auxiliary motion sensing devices, e.g., a relative motion sensor such as an inertial device or other auxiliary motion device relying on acoustics, optics or electromagnetic waves within or outside the visible spectrum, can be used to supplement the position and/or orientation data from the photodetector.

Abstract: The present invention concerns methods and apparatus for perturbing a known contextualization of an underlying proposition adopted by a group of subjects that are considered in a quantum representation. Initially, the subjects belonging to the group exhibit the known contextualization modulo the proposition and also have known measurable indications in the known contextualization. Perturbation is due to injection into the group of a disruptive subject that exhibits a Fermi-Dirac (F-D) anti-consensus statistic modulo the underlying proposition. A monitoring unit and a statistics module are deployed to collect and study subsequent measurable indications from subjects in the group after injection of the disruptive subject and upon re-confronting of the underlying proposition. The perturbation is thus detected and changes in the quantum representation due to it are estimated.

Abstract: The present invention concerns methods and apparatus for using a Quantum Zeno type effect to arrest the evolution or freeze a contextualization adopted by a subject in contextualizing an underlying proposition that typically revolves about an item. The subject is understood to be any sentient being, e.g., a human being that uses the known contextualization modulo the underlying proposition and also exhibits a known initial measurable indication in response to the underlying proposition. Measurable indications can take on the form of responses, actions, behaviors or any measurable aspects that can be collected from the subject in response to the underlying propositions. In the quantum representation as adopted herein, the matrix encoding the contextualization exhibited by the subject is a quantum mechanical operator and the initial measurable indication corresponds to one of its eigenvalues.

Abstract: The present invention concerns methods and apparatus for detecting biasing effects induced by one or more biasing entities when using a quantum representation of like-minded subjects and their shared contextualizations of propositions. Like-minded subjects are understood to be any sentient beings, e.g., human beings, that use shared contextualizations modulo certain propositions and exhibit analogous measurable indications in response to these propositions. Measureable indications can take on the form of responses, actions, behaviors or any measurable aspects that can be collected from the subjects in response to the propositions. Contextualizations that are mutually incompatible are represented by non-commuting quantum mechanical operators while compatible contextualizations are represented by commuting quantum mechanical operators.

Abstract: The present invention concerns methods and apparatus for detecting perturbations to previously established and known contextualizations practiced or exhibited by subjects when confronted by certain propositions about original items. The subjects are understood to be any sentient beings, e.g., human beings that use the known contextualizations modulo the propositions and also exhibit known measurable indications in response to these propositions. Measurable indications can take on the form of responses, actions, behaviors or any measurable aspects that can be collected from the subjects in response to the propositions. The perturbation to the contextualization that is adopted by the subjects is due to altering the original item to generate an altered item and placing the altered item at the center of the proposition that was previously apprehended by the subjects to be about the original item.

Abstract: The present invention relates to interfaces and methods for producing input for software applications based on the absolute pose of an item manipulated or worn by a user in a three-dimensional environment. Absolute pose in the sense of the present invention means both the position and the orientation of the item as described in a stable frame defined in that three-dimensional environment. The invention describes how to recover the absolute pose with optical hardware and methods, and how to map at least one of the recovered absolute pose parameters to the three translational and three rotational degrees of freedom available to the item to generate useful input. The applications that can most benefit from the interfaces and methods of the invention involve 3D virtual spaces including augmented reality and mixed reality environments.

Abstract: Efficient techniques of recovering the pose of an optical apparatus exploiting structural redundancies due the conditioned motion of an apparatus are disclosed. The techniques are based on determining a reduced homography consonant to the conditioned motion of the optical apparatus. The optical apparatus comprises an optical sensor on which space points are imaged as measured image points. The reduced homography is based on a reduced representation of the space points, obtained by exploiting the structural redundancy in the measured image points due to the conditioned motion. The reduced representation consonant with the conditioned motion is defined by rays in homogeneous coordinates and contained in a projective plane of the optical sensor.

Abstract: A wearable article, such as glasses for a virtual reality program or glasses for an augmented reality application, using light sources and a photodetector that detects their light and outputs data indicative of the detected light. The wearable article uses one or more controllers to determine its position and/or orientation in the environment based on the data output by the photodetector. Data from one or more auxiliary motion sensing devices, e.g., a relative motion sensor such as an inertial device or other auxiliary motion device relying on acoustics, optics or electromagnetic waves within or outside the visible spectrum, can be used to supplement the position and/or orientation data from the photodetector.