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).

  • Patent number: 11182685
    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: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: David S. Holz, Raffi Bedikian, Adrian Gasinski, Maxwell Sills, Hua Yang, Gabriel Hare
  • Publication number: 20210342012
    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: July 16, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: Isaac COHEN, Maxwell SILLS, Paul DURDIK
  • Publication number: 20210342013
    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: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Applicant: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: Isaac COHEN, David S. HOLZ, Maxwell SILLS
  • Patent number: 11132064
    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: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: Isaac Cohen, Maxwell Sills
  • Patent number: 11068070
    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: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: Isaac Cohen, Maxwell Sills, Paul Durdik
  • Patent number: 11068071
    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: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: Isaac Cohen, David S. Holz, Maxwell Sills
  • Publication number: 20210141462
    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: January 21, 2021
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: Isaac COHEN, Maxwell SILLS
  • Patent number: 10901518
    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: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: Isaac Cohen, Maxwell Sills
  • Publication number: 20210003977
    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: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Applicant: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: Robert Samuel Gordon, Paul Alan Durdik, Maxwell Sills
  • Publication number: 20200401232
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to motion capture and gesture recognition. In particular, it calculates the exerted force implied by a human hand motion and applies the equivalent through a robotic arm to a target object. In one implementation, this is achieved by tracking the motion and contact of the human hand and generating corresponding robotic commands that replicate the motion and contact of the human hand on a workpiece through a robotic tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Applicant: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: Maxwell Sills, Robert S. Gordon, Paul Durdik
  • Publication number: 20200356766
    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: July 28, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Maxwell SILLS, Aaron SMITH, David S. HOLZ, Hongyuan (Jimmy) HE
  • Publication number: 20200356238
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to providing simplified manipulation of virtual objects by detected hand motions. In particular, it relates to a detecting hand motion and positions of the calculation points relative to a virtual object to be manipulated, dynamically selecting at least one manipulation point proximate to the virtual object based on the detected hand motion and positions of one or more of the calculation points, and manipulating the virtual object by interaction between the detected hand motion and positions of one or more of the calculation points and the dynamically selected manipulation point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicant: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: David S. HOLZ, Raffi BEDIKIAN, Adrian GASINSKI, Hua YANG, Gabriel A. HARE, Maxwell SILLS
  • Publication number: 20200301515
    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: February 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: Isaac COHEN, Maxwell SILLS, Paul DURDIK
  • Patent number: 10782657
    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: February 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: Robert Samuel Gordon, Maxwell Sills, Paul Alan Durdik
  • Patent number: 10768708
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to motion capture and gesture recognition. In particular, it calculates the exerted force implied by a human hand motion and applies the equivalent through a robotic arm to a target object. In one implementation, this is achieved by tracking the motion and contact of the human hand and generating corresponding robotic commands that replicate the motion and contact of the human hand on a workpiece through a robotic tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: Maxwell Sills, Robert S. Gordon, Paul Durdik
  • Publication number: 20200257374
    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: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicant: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: Isaac COHEN, David S. HOLZ, Maxwell SILLS
  • Patent number: 10739965
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to providing simplified manipulation of virtual objects by detected hand motions. In particular, it relates to a detecting hand motion and positions of the calculation points relative to a virtual object to be manipulated, dynamically selecting at least one manipulation point proximate to the virtual object based on the detected hand motion and positions of one or more of the calculation points, and manipulating the virtual object by interaction between the detected hand motion and positions of one or more of the calculation points and the dynamically selected manipulation point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: David S. Holz, Raffi Bedikian, Adrian Gasinski, Hua Yang, Gabriel A. Hare, Maxwell Sills
  • Patent number: 10733429
    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: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: Maxwell Sills, Aaron Smith, David S. Holz, Hongyuan (Jimmy) He
  • Patent number: 10635185
    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: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: Isaac Cohen, David S. Holz, Maxwell Sills
  • Patent number: 10579155
    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: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Ultrahaptics IP Two Limited
    Inventors: Isaac Cohen, Maxwell Sills, Paul Durdik