Patents by Inventor Mitchell Stephen Dernis
Mitchell Stephen Dernis 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).
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Patent number: 9278287Abstract: A video game system (or other data processing system) can visually identify a person entering a field of view of the system and determine whether the person has been previously interacting with the system. In one embodiment, the system establishes thresholds, enrolls players, performs the video game (or other application) including interacting with a subset of the players based on the enrolling, determines that a person has become detectable in the field of view of the system, automatically determines whether the person is one of the enrolled players, maps the person to an enrolled player and interacts with the person based on the mapping if it is determined that the person is one of the enrolled players, and assigns a new identification to the person and interacts with the person based on the new identification if it is determined that the person is not one of the enrolled players.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2014Date of Patent: March 8, 2016Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Tommer Leyvand, Mitchell Stephen Dernis, Jinyu Li, Yichen Wei, Jian Sun, Casey Leon Meekhof, Timothy Milton Keosababian
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Publication number: 20150038230Abstract: A video game system (or other data processing system) can visually identify a person entering a field of view of the system and determine whether the person has been previously interacting with the system. In one embodiment, the system establishes thresholds, enrolls players, performs the video game (or other application) including interacting with a subset of the players based on the enrolling, determines that a person has become detectable in the field of view of the system, automatically determines whether the person is one of the enrolled players, maps the person to an enrolled player and interacts with the person based on the mapping if it is determined that the person is one of the enrolled players, and assigns a new identification to the person and interacts with the person based on the new identification if it is determined that the person is not one of the enrolled players.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2014Publication date: February 5, 2015Inventors: Tommer Leyvand, Mitchell Stephen Dernis, Jinyu Li, Yichen Wei, Jian Sun, Casey Leon Meekhof, Timothy Milton Keosababian
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Patent number: 8926431Abstract: A video game system (or other data processing system) can visually identify a person entering a field of view of the system and determine whether the person has been previously interacting with the system. In one embodiment, the system establishes thresholds, enrolls players, performs the video game (or other application) including interacting with a subset of the players based on the enrolling, determines that a person has become detectable in the field of view of the system, automatically determines whether the person is one of the enrolled players, maps the person to an enrolled player and interacts with the person based on the mapping if it is determined that the person is one of the enrolled players, and assigns a new identification to the person and interacts with the person based on the new identification if it is determined that the person is not one of the enrolled players.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2012Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Tommer Leyvand, Mitchell Stephen Dernis, Jinyu Li, Yichen Wei, Jian Sun, Casey Leon Meekhof, Timothy Milton Keosababian
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Patent number: 8864581Abstract: A video game system (or other data processing system) can visually identify a person entering a field of view of the system and determine whether the person has been previously interacting with the system. In one embodiment, the system establishes thresholds, enrolls players, performs the video game (or other application) including interacting with a subset of the players based on the enrolling, determines that a person has become detectable in the field of view of the system, automatically determines whether the person is one of the enrolled players, maps the person to an enrolled player and interacts with the person based on the mapping if it is determined that the person is one of the enrolled players, and assigns a new identification to the person and interacts with the person based on the new identification if it is determined that the person is not one of the enrolled players.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2010Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Tommer Leyvand, Mitchell Stephen Dernis, Jinyu Li, Yichen Wei, Jian Sun, Casey Leon Meekhof, Timothy Milton Keosababian
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Patent number: 8782557Abstract: Techniques and mechanisms providing a visual indication of ordinal ranks of objects in an ordered list. When an object is selected for the ordered list, an ordinal rank for the object within the ordered list is determined and a visual indication of the ordinal rank is rendered to a user interface.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2008Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventor: Mitchell Stephen Dernis
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Patent number: 8676581Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed that relate to the use of identity information to help avoid the occurrence of false positive speech recognition events in a speech recognition system. One embodiment provides a method comprising receiving speech recognition data comprising a recognized speech segment, acoustic locational data related to a location of origin of the recognized speech segment as determined via signals from the microphone array, and confidence data comprising a recognition confidence value, and also receiving image data comprising visual locational information related to a location of each person in an image. The acoustic locational data is compared to the visual locational data to determine whether the recognized speech segment originated from a person in the field of view of the image sensor, and the confidence data is adjusted depending on this determination.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2010Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Jason Flaks, Dax Hawkins, Christian Klein, Mitchell Stephen Dernis, Tommer Leyvand, Ali M. Vassigh, Duncan McKay
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Publication number: 20120165097Abstract: A video game system (or other data processing system) can visually identify a person entering a field of view of the system and determine whether the person has been previously interacting with the system. In one embodiment, the system establishes thresholds, enrolls players, performs the video game (or other application) including interacting with a subset of the players based on the enrolling, determines that a person has become detectable in the field of view of the system, automatically determines whether the person is one of the enrolled players, maps the person to an enrolled player and interacts with the person based on the mapping if it is determined that the person is one of the enrolled players, and assigns a new identification to the person and interacts with the person based on the new identification if it is determined that the person is not one of the enrolled players.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2012Publication date: June 28, 2012Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Tommer Leyvand, Mitchell Stephen Dernis, Jinyu Li, Yichen Wei, Jian Sun, Casey Leon Meekhof, Timothy Milton Keosababian
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Publication number: 20110190055Abstract: A video game system (or other data processing system) can visually identify a person entering a field of view of the system and determine whether the person has been previously interacting with the system. In one embodiment, the system establishes thresholds, enrolls players, performs the video game (or other application) including interacting with a subset of the players based on the enrolling, determines that a person has become detectable in the field of view of the system, automatically determines whether the person is one of the enrolled players, maps the person to an enrolled player and interacts with the person based on the mapping if it is determined that the person is one of the enrolled players, and assigns a new identification to the person and interacts with the person based on the new identification if it is determined that the person is not one of the enrolled players.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2010Publication date: August 4, 2011Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Tommer Leyvand, Mitchell Stephen Dernis, Jinyu Li, Yichen Wei, Jian Sun, Casey Leon Meekhof, Timothy Milton Keosababian
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Publication number: 20110184735Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed that relate to the use of identity information to help avoid the occurrence of false positive speech recognition events in a speech recognition system. One embodiment provides a method comprising receiving speech recognition data comprising a recognized speech segment, acoustic locational data related to a location of origin of the recognized speech segment as determined via signals from the microphone array, and confidence data comprising a recognition confidence value, and also receiving image data comprising visual locational information related to a location of each person in an image. The acoustic locational data is compared to the visual locational data to determine whether the recognized speech segment originated from a person in the field of view of the image sensor, and the confidence data is adjusted depending on this determination.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2010Publication date: July 28, 2011Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Jason Flaks, Dax Hawkins, Christian Klein, Mitchell Stephen Dernis, Tommer Leyvand, Ali M. Vassigh, Duncan McKay
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Patent number: 7831748Abstract: An extension to the Universal Serial Bus (USB) protocol that utilizes reserved bits in the OHCI Endpoint Descriptors to signal which root hub port(s) should transmit the data. Typically, all ports transmit (broadcast) data. The present invention encodes transmission information that can be used by the hardware to effectively control which port(s) need to be tri-stated. However, by setting, the “on” bits for all the ports, the present invention retains standard USB functionality. Also provided is a method to increase the bandwidth of low speed devices connected to the USB bus by increasing the data payload for such devices.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2004Date of Patent: November 9, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Mitchell Stephen Dernis, Ankur Varma, Wei Guo, Eiko Junus, Gregory George Williams, Harjit Singh
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Publication number: 20090327960Abstract: Techniques and mechanisms providing a visual indication of ordinal ranks of objects in an ordered list. When an object is selected for the ordered list, an ordinal rank for the object within the ordered list is determined and a visual indication of the ordinal rank is rendered to a user interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2008Publication date: December 31, 2009Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventor: Mitchell Stephen Dernis