Patents by Inventor Nathan Ackerman
Nathan Ackerman 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: 10805577Abstract: In a system for video data capture and sharing client devices may include one or more video cameras and sensors to capture video data and to generate associated metadata. A cloud-based component may receive metadata from the client devices and requests for sharing video data captured by other client devices. Client devices with requested video data are identified by matching their provided metadata to the sharing request and by their response to an image search query for an object of interest specified in the request.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2017Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: Owl Cameras, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Hodge, Nathan Ackerman, Jay Hamlin, Jeffrey Margolis
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Patent number: 10785453Abstract: A method for automatically authenticating unknown video data based on known video data stored at a client server is provided, wherein, unknown and known video data each are made up of segments and include metadata, a hash message digest, and a serial code. The method involves selecting a first segment of the unknown video and locating the serial code within the first segment of the unknown video data. The serial code is used to locate a corresponding first segment in the known video data. The first segment may include a known hash message digest. A new hash message digest for the first segment of the unknown video data is generated and compared with the known hash message digest. If they match, the segment of unknown video data is authentic.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2017Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: OWL CAMERAS, INC.Inventors: Andrew Hodge, Nathan Ackerman, Jean-Paul Labrosse
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Patent number: 10670937Abstract: A see-through dimming panel includes first and second transparent substrate layers and suspended-particle-device (SPD) layer therebetween. A first transparent conductor layer is between the first transparent substrate layer and the SPD layer, and a second transparent conductor layer is between the second transparent substrate layer and the SPD layer. A first electrode is electrically coupled to the first transparent conductor layer. Second and third electrodes are electrically coupled to opposite ends of the second transparent conductor layer. An electric potential difference applied between the first and second electrodes controls a transmittance level of the SPD layer. An electric potential difference applied between the second and third electrodes, which results in a transverse electric field, controls a speed at which the transmittance level of the SPD layer decreases when the electric potential difference applied between the first and second electrodes controls is decreased.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2017Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Daniel James Alton, Nathan Ackerman
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Patent number: 10642047Abstract: A see-through, near-eye mixed reality head mounted display (HMD) device includes left and right see-through display regions within which virtual images are displayable. These left and right see-through display regions each having a transmittance that is less than one hundred percent. The see-through, near-eye mixed reality HMD device also includes a see-through transmittance compensation mask that includes a left window through which the left see-through display region is visible and a right window through which the right see-through display region is visible. In accordance with various embodiments, the see-through transmittance compensation mask is used to provide a substantially uniform transmittance across the field-of-view of a user wearing the HMD device.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Daniel James Alton, Nathan Ackerman, Philip Andrew Frank, Andrew Hodge, Barry Corlett
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Patent number: 10643257Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for customizing an electronic communication to include an option to make an online donation to a charitable cause, based on evaluating donation histories, and providing the customized communication to one or more recipients. The systems and methods described herein further customize electronic communications for multiple recipients such that the systems and methods provide each recipient with an option to contribute that is based on the individual donation history of the recipient.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2016Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.Inventors: Jonjo Twist, Nathan Ackerman, John Lawrence Connuck, Lisa Jones
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Patent number: 10582163Abstract: A system and method to connect several cameras located in a given location, such as a parking garage, or area, such as in a neighborhood, is provided. The system allows each camera to function independently from each other with the purpose of recording video within the field of view of the particular camera. Image recognition processes the video to identify objects of interest and generate classification data. A search request can be generated, for example, by touching on a specific object shown on a display of the video, and networked cameras are searched for classification data that matches the search request, e.g., the selected object. Networked cameras can determine the relative spatial views of other cameras. Within a prescribed location or area, a camera or other user can access other networked cameras to extend the range of the search for the requested classification data in a “peer-to-peer” manner.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2018Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: OWL CAMERAS, INC.Inventors: Andrew Hodge, Nathan Ackerman, Jean-Paul Labrosse
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Patent number: 10345903Abstract: A method of detecting eye location for a head-mounted display system includes directing positioning light to an eye of a user and detecting the positioning light reflected from the eye of the user. The method further includes determining a distance between the eye and a near-eye optic of the head-mounted display system based on attributes of the detected positioning light, and providing feedback for adjusting the distance between the eye and the near-eye optic.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2013Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Steve Robbins, Scott C. McEldowney, Xinye Lou, David D. Bohn, Quentin Simon Charles Miller, David Nister, Gerhard Schneider, Christopher Maurice Mei, Nathan Ackerman
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Publication number: 20190174099Abstract: In a system for video data capture and sharing client devices may include one or more video cameras and sensors to capture video data and to generate associated metadata. A cloud-based component may receive metadata from the client devices and requests for sharing video data captured by other client devices. Client devices with requested video data are identified by matching their provided metadata to the sharing request and by their response to an image search query for an object of interest specified in the request.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2017Publication date: June 6, 2019Applicant: Owl Cameras, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Hodge, Nathan Ackerman, Jay Hamlin, Jeffrey Margolis
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Patent number: 10228561Abstract: An example see-through head-mounted display system includes a freeform prism and a display device configured to emit display light through the freeform prism to an eye of a user. The see-through head-mounted display system may also include an imaging device configured to receive gaze-detection light reflected from the eye and directed through the freeform prism.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2013Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Steve Robbins, Scott McEldowney, Xinye Lou, David Nister, Drew Steedly, Quentin Simon Charles Miller, David D Bohn, James Peele Terrell, Jr., Andrew C. Goris, Nathan Ackerman
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Publication number: 20180259776Abstract: A see-through, near-eye mixed reality head mounted display (HMD) device includes left and right see-through display regions within which virtual images are displayable. These left and right see-through display regions each having a transmittance that is less than one hundred percent. The see-through, near-eye mixed reality HMD device also includes a see-through transmittance compensation mask that includes a left window through which the left see-through display region is visible and a right window through which the right see-through display region is visible. In accordance with various embodiments, the see-through transmittance compensation mask is used to provide a substantially uniform transmittance across the field-of-view of a user wearing the HMD device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2018Publication date: September 13, 2018Inventors: Daniel James Alton, Nathan Ackerman, Philip Andrew Frank, Andrew Hodge, Barry Corlett
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Publication number: 20180218582Abstract: A system and method to connect several cameras located in a given location, such as a parking garage, or area, such as in a neighborhood, is provided. The system allows each camera to function independently from each other with the purpose of recording video within the field of view of the particular camera. Image recognition processes the video to identify objects of interest and generate classification data. A search request can be generated, for example, by touching on a specific object shown on a display of the video, and networked cameras are searched for classification data that matches the search request, e.g., the selected object. Networked cameras can determine the relative spatial views of other cameras. Within a prescribed location or area, a camera or other user can access other networked cameras to extend the range of the search for the requested classification data in a “peer-to-peer” manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2018Publication date: August 2, 2018Applicant: 725-1 CORPORATIONInventors: Andrew Hodge, Nathan Ackerman, Jean-Paul Labrosse
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Publication number: 20180218753Abstract: A method for automatically authenticating unknown video data based on known video data stored at a client server is provided, wherein, unknown and known video data each are made up of segments and include metadata, a hash message digest, and a serial code. The method involves selecting a first segment of the unknown video and locating the serial code within the first segment of the unknown video data. The serial code is used to locate a corresponding first segment in the known video data. The first segment may include a known hash message digest. A new hash message digest for the first segment of the unknown video data is generated and compared with the known hash message digest. If they match, the segment of unknown video data is authentic.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2017Publication date: August 2, 2018Applicant: 725-1 CORPORATIONInventors: Andrew Hodge, Nathan Ackerman, Jean-Paul Labrosse
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Publication number: 20180220189Abstract: In a system for video data capture and sharing client devices may include one or more video cameras and sensors to capture video data and a local buffer memory for storing the captured video data. The system uses inputs from various sources, including sensors, to determine an operating mode. Based on the operating mode, video recording settings are set for the video cameras to change the size of the video data that is generated and stored in the local buffer memory to optimize its use. When the operating mode corresponds to an event of interest, the data recorded is larger, with higher video quality parameters, and when the operational mode corresponds to video footage of no interest, the data recorded is smaller, with lower video quality parameters. Additionally, other actions can be taken based on the operational mode, such as over-write the video recording parameters, notify users of likely loss of recorded data, and the like.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2018Publication date: August 2, 2018Applicant: 725-1 CORPORATIONInventors: Andrew Hodge, Nathan Ackerman, Jay Hamlin, Jeffrey Margolis
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Patent number: 9995933Abstract: A see-through, near-eye mixed reality head mounted display (HMD) device includes left and right see-through display regions within which virtual images are displayable. These left and right see-through display regions each having a transmittance that is less than one hundred percent. The see-through, near-eye mixed reality HMD device also includes a see-through transmittance compensation mask that includes a left window through which the left see-through display region is visible and a right window through which the right see-through display region is visible. In accordance with various embodiments, the see-through transmittance compensation mask is used to provide a substantially uniform transmittance across the field-of-view of a user wearing the HMD device.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2014Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Daniel James Alton, Nathan Ackerman, Philip Andrew Frank, Andrew Hodge, Barry Corlett
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Publication number: 20180158114Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for customizing an electronic communication to include an option to make an online donation to a charitable cause, based on evaluating donation histories, and providing the customized communication to one or more recipients. The systems and methods described herein further customize electronic communications for multiple recipients such that the systems and methods provide each recipient with an option to contribute that is based on the individual donation history of the recipient.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2016Publication date: June 7, 2018Inventors: Jonjo Twist, Nathan Ackerman, John Lawrence Connuck, Lisa Jones
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Publication number: 20170315417Abstract: A see-through dimming panel includes first and second transparent substrate layers and suspended-particle-device (SPD) layer therebetween. A first transparent conductor layer is between the first transparent substrate layer and the SPD layer, and a second transparent conductor layer is between the second transparent substrate layer and the SPD layer. A first electrode is electrically coupled to the first transparent conductor layer. Second and third electrodes are electrically coupled to opposite ends of the second transparent conductor layer. An electric potential difference applied between the first and second electrodes controls a transmittance level of the SPD layer. An electric potential difference applied between the second and third electrodes, which results in a transverse electric field, controls a speed at which the transmittance level of the SPD layer decreases when the electric potential difference applied between the first and second electrodes controls is decreased.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2017Publication date: November 2, 2017Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Daniel James ALTON, Nathan ACKERMAN
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Patent number: 9766459Abstract: Described herein are display devices, and methods for use therewith. Such a device can be used to display one or more virtual images within a first see-through portion of the device, adjacent to which is a second see-through portion that does not overlap with the first see-through portion. The first and second see-through portions of the device collectively cover a substantially entire field-of-view (FOV) of a user. A transmittance (and/or other optical characteristic(s)) corresponding to the first see-through portion of the device and a transmittance (and/or other optical characteristic(s)) corresponding to the second see-through portion of the device can be caused (e.g., controlled) to be substantially the same to provide a substantially uniform transmittance (and/or other optical characteristic(s)) across the substantially entire FOV of a user. More generally, optical characteristics of see-through portions of the device can be controlled, e.g., by a user and/or through feedback.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2014Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Daniel James Alton, Nathan Ackerman, Andrew Hodge, Philip Andrew Frank
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Patent number: 9747726Abstract: Methods for generating and displaying images associated with one or more virtual objects within an augmented reality environment at a frame rate that is greater than a rendering frame rate are described. The rendering frame rate may correspond with the minimum time to render images associated with a pose of a head-mounted display device (HMD). In some embodiments, the HMD may determine a predicted pose associated with a future position and orientation of the HMD, generate a pre-rendered image based on the predicted pose, determine an updated pose associated with the HMD subsequent to generating the pre-rendered image, generate an updated image based on the updated pose and the pre-rendered image, and display the updated image on the HMD. The updated image may be generated via a homographic transformation and/or a pixel offset adjustment of the pre-rendered image.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2016Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Oliver Michael Christian Williams, Paul Barham, Michael Isard, Tuan Wong, Kevin Woo, Georg Klein, Douglas Kevin Service, Ashraf Ayman Michail, Andrew Pearson, Martin Shetter, Jeffrey Neil Margolis, Nathan Ackerman, Calvin Chan, Arthur C. Tomlin
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Patent number: 9746739Abstract: A see-through dimming panel includes first and second transparent substrate layers and suspended-particle-device (SPD) layer therebetween. A first transparent conductor layer is between the first transparent substrate layer and the SPD layer, and a second transparent conductor layer is between the second transparent substrate layer and the SPD layer. A first electrode is electrically coupled to the first transparent conductor layer. Second and third electrodes are electrically coupled to opposite ends of the second transparent conductor layer. An electric potential difference applied between the first and second electrodes controls a transmittance level of the SPD layer. An electric potential difference applied between the second and third electrodes, which results in a transverse electric field, controls a speed at which the transmittance level of the SPD layer decreases when the electric potential difference applied between the first and second electrodes controls is decreased.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2014Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Daniel James Alton, Nathan Ackerman
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Patent number: 9639985Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for detecting angular displacement of a display element relative to a reference position on a head mounted display device for presenting a mixed reality or virtual reality experience. Once the displacement is detected, it may be corrected for to maintain the proper binocular disparity of virtual images displayed to the left and right display elements of the head mounted display device. In one example, the detection system uses an optical assembly including collimated LEDs and a camera which together are insensitive to linear displacement. Such a system provides a true measure of angular displacement of one or both display elements on the head mounted display device.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2013Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Steven John Robbins, Drew Steedly, Nathan Ackerman, Quentin Simon Charles Miller, Andrew C. Goris