Patents by Inventor Nicholas Burton

Nicholas Burton 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: 9400695
    Abstract: A system is disclosed for rendering low latency resource objects by providing the latest position data from a central processing unit for the low latency resource object right before a graphic processing unit is to render the low latency resource object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Sebastian Sylvan, Nicholas Burton
  • Patent number: 9384329
    Abstract: A system and method is disclosed determining caloric burn via an HCI system. Using a capture device which is able to detect the thickness of a user's arms, legs, torso, etc., the system determines a mass for each of a user's body parts. Thereafter, in one example, the system measures caloric burn for a given body part as a function of how far the body part was displaced, a mass of the body part displaced and gravity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Wilson, Mark Stevenson, Nicholas Burton, William Bryan, James Thomas
  • Patent number: 8542252
    Abstract: Techniques may comprise identifying surfaces, textures, and object dimensions from unorganized point clouds derived from a capture device, such as a depth sensing device. Employing target digitization may comprise surface extraction, identifying points in a point cloud, labeling surfaces, computing object properties, tracking changes in object properties over time, and increasing confidence in the object boundaries and identity as additional frames are captured. If the point cloud data includes an object, a model of the object may be generated. Feedback of the model associated with a particular object may be generated and provided real time to the user. Further, the model of the object may be tracked in response to any movement of the object in the physical space such that the model may be adjusted to mimic changes or movement of the object, or increase the fidelity of the target's characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Kathryn Stone Perez, Alex Kipman, Nicholas Burton, Andrew Wilson, Diego Fernandes Nehab
  • Publication number: 20110306468
    Abstract: A system and method is disclosed determining caloric burn via an HCI system. Using a capture device which is able to detect the thickness of a user's arms, legs, torso, etc., the system determines a mass for each of a user's body parts. Thereafter, in one example, the system measures caloric burn for a given body part as a function of how far the body part was displaced, a mass of the body part displaced and gravity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew Wilson, Mark Stevenson, Nicholas Burton, William Bryan, James Thomas
  • Publication number: 20110210982
    Abstract: A system is disclosed for rendering low latency resource objects by providing the latest position data from a central processing unit for the low latency resource object right before a graphic processing unit is to render the low latency resource object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Sebastian Sylvan, Nicholas Burton
  • Publication number: 20100302247
    Abstract: Techniques may comprise identifying surfaces, textures, and object dimensions from unorganized point clouds derived from a capture device, such as a depth sensing device. Employing target digitization may comprise surface extraction, identifying points in a point cloud, labeling surfaces, computing object properties, tracking changes in object properties over time, and increasing confidence in the object boundaries and identity as additional frames are captured. If the point cloud data includes an object, a model of the object may be generated. Feedback of the model associated with a particular object may be generated and provided real time to the user. Further, the model of the object may be tracked in response to any movement of the object in the physical space such that the model may be adjusted to mimic changes or movement of the object, or increase the fidelity of the target's characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2009
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Kathryn Stone Perez, Alex Kipman, Nicholas Burton, Andrew Wilson, Diego Fernandes Nehab
  • Publication number: 20100295771
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for controlling display objects. Particularly, a body part of a user may move, and the movement detected by a capture device. The capture device may capture images or frames of the body part at different times. Based on the captured frames, velocities of the body part may be determined or at least estimated at the different times. A blend velocity for the body part may be determined based on the different velocities. Particularly, for example, the blend velocity may be an average of the velocities of the body part over a period of time. A display object may then be controlled or moved in accordance with the blend velocity. For example, an avatar's body part may be moved in the same direction as a recent captured frame of the user's body part, and at the blend velocity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2009
    Publication date: November 25, 2010
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Nicholas Burton, William Bryan, Andrew Wilson