Patents by Inventor Mark Ruane

Mark Ruane 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).

  • Transitioning between top-down maps and local navigation of reconstructed 3-D scenes
    Patent number: 9424676
    Abstract: Technologies are described herein for transitioning between a top-down map display of a reconstructed structure within a 3-D scene and an associated local-navigation display. An application transitions between the top-down map display and the local-navigation display by animating a view in a display window over a period of time while interpolating camera parameters from values representing a starting camera view to values representing an ending camera view. In one embodiment, the starting camera view is the top-down map display view and the ending camera view is the camera view associated with a target photograph. In another embodiment, the starting camera view is the camera view associated with a currently-viewed photograph in the local-navigation display and the ending camera view is the top-down map display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Billy Chen, Eyal Ofek, David Maxwell Gedye, Jonathan Robert Dughi, Mark Ruane Dawson, Joshua Podolak
  • Transitioning Between Top-Down Maps and Local Navigation of Reconstructed 3-D Scenes
    Publication number: 20140098107
    Abstract: Technologies are described herein for transitioning between a top-down map display of a reconstructed structure within a 3-D scene and an associated local-navigation display. An application transitions between the top-down map display and the local-navigation display by animating a view in a display window over a period of time while interpolating camera parameters from values representing a starting camera view to values representing an ending camera view. In one embodiment, the starting camera view is the top-down map display view and the ending camera view is the camera view associated with a target photograph. In another embodiment, the starting camera view is the camera view associated with a currently-viewed photograph in the local-navigation display and the ending camera view is the top-down map display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Billy Chen, Eyal Ofek, David Maxwell Gedye, Jonathan Robert Dughi, Mark Ruane Dawson, Joshua Podolak
  • Transitioning between top-down maps and local navigation of reconstructed 3-D scenes
    Patent number: 8624902
    Abstract: Technologies are described herein for transitioning between a top-down map of a reconstructed structure within a 3-D scene and an associated local-navigation display. An application transitions between the top-down map and the local-navigation display by animating a view in a display window over a period of time while interpolating camera parameters from values representing a starting camera view to values representing an ending camera view. In one embodiment, the starting camera view is the top-down map view and the ending camera view is the camera view associated with a target photograph. In another embodiment, the starting camera view is the camera view associated with a currently-viewed photograph in the local-navigation display and the ending camera view is the top-down map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Billy Chen, Eyal Ofek, David Maxwell Gedye, Jonathan Robert Dughi, Mark Ruane Dawson, Joshua Podolak
  • TRANSITIONING BETWEEN TOP-DOWN MAPS AND LOCAL NAVIGATION OF RECONSTRUCTED 3-D SCENES
    Publication number: 20110187723
    Abstract: Technologies are described herein for transitioning between a top-down map of a reconstructed structure within a 3-D scene and an associated local-navigation display. An application transitions between the top-down map and the local-navigation display by animating a view in a display window over a period of time while interpolating camera parameters from values representing a starting camera view to values representing an ending camera view. In one embodiment, the starting camera view is the top-down map view and the ending camera view is the camera view associated with a target photograph. In another embodiment, the starting camera view is the camera view associated with a currently-viewed photograph in the local-navigation display and the ending camera view is the top-down map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Billy Chen, Eyal Ofek, David Maxwell Gedye, Jonathan Robert Dughi, Mark Ruane Dawson, Joshua Podolak
  • Spot market clearing
    Patent number: 7835973
    Abstract: A spot market clearing house for clearing spot market trades. The spot market clearing house may receive data indicative of settlement for the spot market trades of a participant in a single spot market or in multiple spot markets. The data may include data indicative of initial settlement and data indicative of revised settlement amounts. The spot market clearing house may further determine performance bonds amounts based on daily exposures of the participant in the single spot market or multiple spot markets. The spot market clearing house may manage fund transfers to clear trades of the participant and to satisfy performance bond amounts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Francis X. Shields, Todd W. Bessemer, Mark A. Ruane
  • Spot market clearing
    Publication number: 20050114255
    Abstract: A spot market clearing house for clearing spot market trades. The spot market clearing house may receive data indicative of settlement for the spot market trades of a participant in a single spot market or in multiple spot markets. The data may include data indicative of initial settlement and data indicative of revised settlement amounts. The spot market clearing house may further determine performance bonds amounts based on daily exposures of the participant in the single spot market or multiple spot markets. The spot market clearing house may manage fund transfers to clear trades of the participant and to satisfy performance bond amounts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2004
    Publication date: May 26, 2005
    Inventors: Francis Shields, Todd Bessemer, Mark Ruane