Patents by Inventor Maxwell Sills

Maxwell Sills 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: 20240061511
    Abstract: Embodiments of display control based on dynamic user interactions generally include capturing a plurality of temporally sequential images of the user, or a body part or other control object manipulated by the user, and computationally analyzing the images to recognize a gesture performed by the user. In some embodiments, the gesture is identified as an engagement gesture, and compared with reference gestures from a library of reference gestures. In some embodiments, a degree of completion of the recognized engagement gesture is determined, and the display contents are modified in accordance therewith. In some embodiments, a dominant gesture is computationally determined from among a plurality of user gestures, and an action displayed on the device is based on the dominant gesture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: Raffi BEDIKIAN, Jonathan MARSDEN, Keith MERTENS, David HOLZ, Maxwell SILLS, Matias PEREZ, Gabriel HARE, Ryan JULIAN
  • Publication number: 20240028131
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to creating user-defined interaction spaces and modalities in a three dimensional (3D) sensor space in response to control gestures. It also relates to controlling virtual cameras in the 3D sensor space using control gestures and manipulating controls of the virtual cameras through the control gestures. In particular, it relates to defining one or more spatial attributes of the interaction spaces and modalities in response to one or more gesture parameters of the control gesture. It also particularly relates to defining one or more visual parameters of a virtual camera in response to one or more gesture parameters of the control gesture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: ULTRAHAPTICS IP TWO LIMITED
    Inventors: Isaac COHEN, Maxwell SILLS, Paul DURDIK
  • Publication number: 20230333662
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to automatically interpreting motion of a control object in a three dimensional (3D) sensor space by sensing a movement of the control object in the (3D) sensor space, interpreting movement of the control object, and presenting the interpreted movement as a path on a display. The path may be displayed once the speed of the movement exceeds a pre-determined threshold measured in cm per second. Once the path is displayed, the technology duplicates a display object that intersects the path on the display. In some implementations, the control object may be a device, a hand, or a portion of a hand (such as a finger).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: Isaac COHEN, David S. HOLZ, Maxwell SILLS
  • Patent number: 11775080
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to creating user-defined interaction spaces and modalities in a three dimensional (3D) sensor space in response to control gestures. It also relates to controlling virtual cameras in the 3D sensor space using control gestures and manipulating controls of the virtual cameras through the control gestures. In particular, it relates to defining one or more spatial attributes of the interaction spaces and modalities in response to one or more gesture parameters of the control gesture. It also particularly relates to defining one or more visual parameters of a virtual camera in response to one or more gesture parameters of the control gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: Isaac Cohen, Maxwell Sills, Paul Durdik
  • Patent number: 11740705
    Abstract: A method and system are provided for controlling a machine using gestures. The method includes sensing a variation of position of a control object using an imaging system, determining, from the variation, one or more primitives describing a characteristic of a control object moving in space, comparing the one or more primitives to one or more gesture templates in a library of gesture templates, selecting, based on a result of the comparing, one or more gesture templates corresponding to the one or more primitives, and providing at least one gesture template of the selected one or more gesture templates as an indication of a command to issue to a machine under control responsive to the variation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: Raffi Bedikian, Jonathan Marsden, Keith Mertens, David Holz, Maxwell Sills, Matias Perez, Gabriel Hare, Ryan Julian
  • Patent number: 11726575
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to automatically interpreting a gesture of a control object in a three dimensional sensor space by sensing a movement of the control object in the three dimensional sensor space, sensing orientation of the control object, defining a control plane tangential to a surface of the control object and interpreting the gesture based on whether the movement of the control object is more normal to the control plane or more parallel to the control plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: Isaac Cohen, David S. Holz, Maxwell Sills
  • Publication number: 20230245500
    Abstract: The technology disclosed can provide methods and systems for identifying users while capturing motion and/or determining the path of a portion of the user with one or more optical, acoustic or vibrational sensors. Implementations can enable use of security aware devices, e.g., automated teller machines (ATMs), cash registers and banking machines, other secure vending or service machines, security screening apparatus, secure terminals, airplanes, automobiles and so forth that comprise sensors and processors employing optical, audio or vibrational detection mechanisms suitable for providing gesture detection, personal identification, user recognition, authorization of control inputs, and other machine control and/or machine communications applications. A virtual experience can be provided to the user in some implementations by the addition of haptic, audio and/or other sensory information projectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: ULTRAHAPTICS IP TWO LIMITED
    Inventors: Maxwell SILLS, Aaron SMITH, David S. HOLZ, Hongyuan (Jimmy) HE
  • Publication number: 20230205151
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to selecting among devices to interact with. It also relates operating a smart phone with reduced power consumption. It further relates to gesturally interacting with devices that lack gestural responsiveness. The technology disclosed also relates to distinguishing control gestures from proximate non-control gestures in a pervasive three dimensional (3D) sensory space. The technology disclosed further relates to selecting among virtual interaction modalities to interact with.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: Robert Samuel GORDON, Paul Alan DURDIK, Maxwell SILLS
  • Patent number: 11620859
    Abstract: The technology disclosed can provide methods and systems for identifying users while capturing motion and/or determining the path of a portion of the user with one or more optical, acoustic or vibrational sensors. Implementations can enable use of security aware devices, e.g., automated teller machines (ATMs), cash registers and banking machines, other secure vending or service machines, security screening apparatus, secure terminals, airplanes, automobiles and so forth that comprise sensors and processors employing optical, audio or vibrational detection mechanisms suitable for providing gesture detection, personal identification, user recognition, authorization of control inputs, and other machine control and/or machine communications applications. A virtual experience can be provided to the user in some implementations by the addition of haptic, audio and/or other sensory information projectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: Maxwell Sills, Aaron Smith, David S. Holz, Hongyuan (Jimmy) He
  • Publication number: 20230072748
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to creating user-defined interaction spaces and modalities in a three dimensional (3D) sensor space in response to control gestures. It also relates to controlling virtual cameras in the 3D sensor space using control gestures and manipulating controls of the virtual cameras through the control gestures. In particular, it relates to defining one or more spatial attributes of the interaction spaces and modalities in response to one or more gesture parameters of the control gesture. It also particularly relates to defining one or more visual parameters of a virtual camera in response to one or more gesture parameters of the control gesture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: Isaac COHEN, Maxwell SILLS
  • Patent number: 11567583
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to creating user-defined interaction spaces and modalities in a three dimensional (3D) sensor space in response to control gestures. It also relates to controlling virtual cameras in the 3D sensor space using control gestures and manipulating controls of the virtual cameras through the control gestures. In particular, it relates to defining one or more spatial attributes of the interaction spaces and modalities in response to one or more gesture parameters of the control gesture. It also particularly relates to defining one or more visual parameters of a virtual camera in response to one or more gesture parameters of the control gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: Isaac Cohen, Maxwell Sills
  • Publication number: 20230025269
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to creating user-defined interaction spaces and modalities in a three dimensional (3D) sensor space in response to control gestures. It also relates to controlling virtual cameras in the 3D sensor space using control gestures and manipulating controls of the virtual cameras through the control gestures. In particular, it relates to defining one or more spatial attributes of the interaction spaces and modalities in response to one or more gesture parameters of the control gesture. It also particularly relates to defining one or more visual parameters of a virtual camera in response to one or more gesture parameters of the control gesture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: Isaac COHEN, Maxwell SILLS, Paul DURDIK
  • Patent number: 11561519
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to selecting among devices room to interact with. It also relates operating a smart phone with reduced power consumption. It further relates to gesturally interacting with devices that lack gestural responsiveness. The technology disclosed also relates to distinguishing control gestures from proximate non-control gestures in a pervasive three dimensional (3D) sensory space. The technology disclosed further relates to selecting among virtual interaction modalities to interact with.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: Robert Samuel Gordon, Paul Alan Durdik, Maxwell Sills
  • Patent number: 11500473
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to creating user-defined interaction spaces and modalities in a three dimensional (3D) sensor space in response to control gestures. It also relates to controlling virtual cameras in the 3D sensor space using control gestures and manipulating controls of the virtual cameras through the control gestures. In particular, it relates to defining one or more spatial attributes of the interaction spaces and modalities in response to one or more gesture parameters of the control gesture. It also particularly relates to defining one or more visual parameters of a virtual camera in response to one or more gesture parameters of the control gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: Isaac Cohen, Maxwell Sills
  • Patent number: 11460929
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to creating user-defined interaction spaces and modalities in a three dimensional (3D) sensor space in response to control gestures. It also relates to controlling virtual cameras in the 3D sensor space using control gestures and manipulating controls of the virtual cameras through the control gestures. In particular, it relates to defining one or more spatial attributes of the interaction spaces and modalities in response to one or more gesture parameters of the control gesture. It also particularly relates to defining one or more visual parameters of a virtual camera in response to one or more gesture parameters of the control gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: Isaac Cohen, Maxwell Sills, Paul Durdik
  • Publication number: 20220236808
    Abstract: A method and system are provided for controlling a machine using gestures. The method includes sensing a variation of position of a control object using an imaging system, determining, from the variation, one or more primitives describing a characteristic of a control object moving in space, comparing the one or more primitives to one or more gesture templates in a library of gesture templates, selecting, based on a result of the comparing, one or more gesture templates corresponding to the one or more primitives, and providing at least one gesture template of the selected one or more gesture templates as an indication of a command to issue to a machine under control responsive to the variation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: Raffi Bedikian, Jonathan Marsden, Keith Mertens, David Holz, Maxwell Sills, Matias Perez, Gabriel Hare, Ryan Julian
  • Patent number: 11307282
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to determining positional information about an object of interest is provided. In particular, it includes, conducting scanning of a field of interest with an emission from a transmission area according to an ordered scan pattern. The emission can be received to form a signal based upon at least one salient property (e.g., intensity, amplitude, frequency, polarization, phase, or other detectable feature) of the emission varying with time at the object of interest. Synchronization information about the ordered scan pattern can be derived from a source, a second signal broadcast separately, social media share, others, or and/or combinations thereof). A correspondence between at least one characteristic of the signal and the synchronization information can be established. Positional information can be determined based at least in part upon the correspondence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: David S. Holz, Robert Samuel Gordon, Gabriel A. Hare, Neeloy Roy, Maxwell Sills, Paul Durdik
  • Publication number: 20220083880
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to manipulating a virtual object. In particular, it relates to detecting a hand in a three-dimensional (3D) sensory space and generating a predictive model of the hand, and using the predictive model to track motion of the hand. The predictive model includes positions of calculation points of fingers, thumb and palm of the hand. The technology disclosed relates to dynamically selecting at least one manipulation point proximate to a virtual object based on the motion tracked by the predictive model and positions of one or more of the calculation points, and manipulating the virtual object by interaction between at least some of the calculation points of the predictive model and the dynamically selected manipulation point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: David S. HOLZ, Raffi BEDIKIAN, Adrian GASINSKI, Maxwell SILLS, Hua YANG, Gabriel HARE
  • Patent number: 11243612
    Abstract: Embodiments of display control based on dynamic user interactions generally include capturing a plurality of temporally sequential images of the user, or a body part or other control object manipulated by the user, and computationally analyzing the images to recognize a gesture performed by the user. In some embodiments, a scale indicative of an actual gesture distance traversed in performance of the gesture is identified, and a movement or action is displayed on the device based, at least in part, on a ratio between the identified scale and the scale of the displayed movement. In some embodiments, a degree of completion of the recognized gesture is determined, and the display contents are modified in accordance therewith. In some embodiments, a dominant gesture is computationally determined from among a plurality of user gestures, and an action displayed on the device is based on the dominant gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: Raffi Bedikian, Jonathan Marsden, Keith Mertens, David Holz, Maxwell Sills, Matias Perez, Gabriel Hare, Ryan Julian
  • Publication number: 20220011871
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to creating user-defined interaction spaces and modalities in a three dimensional (3D) sensor space in response to control gestures. It also relates to controlling virtual cameras in the 3D sensor space using control gestures and manipulating controls of the virtual cameras through the control gestures. In particular, it relates to defining one or more spatial attributes of the interaction spaces and modalities in response to one or more gesture parameters of the control gesture. It also particularly relates to defining one or more visual parameters of a virtual camera in response to one or more gesture parameters of the control gesture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: Isaac COHEN, Maxwell SILLS