Patents by Inventor Nicholas Daniel
Nicholas Daniel 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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Publication number: 20210259340Abstract: An automated pattern generation application obtains an image as an input, where the image is of a design element such as a unique building. The automated pattern generation application extracts essential design features from the image and determines how to represent those essential design features in a fashion object (e.g., a garment or wearable accessory).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2021Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventors: Nicholas Daniel Clayton, Camilla Marie Olson, Jungah Joo Lee, Shen Liu
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Patent number: 11102467Abstract: A depth camera assembly (DCA) captures data describing depth information in a local area. The DCA includes an array detector, a controller, and an illumination source. The array detector includes a detector that is overlaid with a lens array. The detector includes a plurality of pixels, the plurality of pixels are divided into a plurality of different pixel groups. The lens array includes a plurality of lens stacks and each lens stack overlays a different pixel group. The array detector captures one or more composite images of the local area illuminated with the light from the illumination source. The controller determines depth information for objects in the local area using the one or more composite images.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2016Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: Nicholas Daniel Trail, Renzo De Nardi, Richard Andrew Newcombe
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Patent number: 11061234Abstract: A depth camera assembly for depth sensing of a local area includes an illumination source, an imaging device, and a controller. The illumination source illuminates a local area with light emitted in accordance with emission instructions generated by the controller. The illumination source includes an array of optical sources and an optical assembly. Operation of each optical source in the array is controllable based in part on the emission instructions. The optical assembly is configured to project the light into the local area. The imaging device captures one or more images of at least a portion of the light reflected from one or more objects in the local area. The controller determines depth information for the one or more objects based in part on the captured one or more images.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2018Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: Zhaoming Zhu, Nicholas Daniel Trail
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Patent number: 11055056Abstract: The disclosed system may include (1) a wearable display device including (a) a display subsystem that presents an image, and (b) a first wireless interface that receives image data, where the display subsystem bases the image on the image data, and (2) a processing device that is physically separate from the display device and includes (a) a display data processing subsystem that generates the image data, (b) a second wireless interface that transmits the image data directly to the first wireless interface, and (3) a position detection subsystem including a sensor that captures depth data in a local environment of the display device, where the position detection subsystem determines a location or an orientation of a portion of a user within the local environment, and the display data processing subsystem generates the image data based on the location or orientation. Various other systems and methods are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventor: Nicholas Daniel Trail
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Patent number: 11042039Abstract: A head-mounted-display includes an electronic display emitting image light and a varifocal block receiving the image light and outputting the image light in at least one of the focal planes of the varifocal block. The varifocal block includes a back optical element, a front optical element, and an actuator assembly coupled to the back and front optical element. The front optical element is positioned closer to an exit pupil than the back optical element, and separated from the back optical element by an adjustable distance, the magnitude of which determines in which of the focal planes the image light is presented. The actuator assembly simultaneously adjusts positions of the back optical element and the front optical element to vary the adjustable distance between the back optical element and the front optical element in accordance with an estimated vergence depth of the user.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2017Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventor: Nicholas Daniel Trail
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Patent number: 11016301Abstract: An auto-focus head-mounted display (HMD) dynamically generates aberration-adjusted images based on measured accommodation of user's eye(s). An aberration-adjusted image is an image distorted to correct aberrations that would otherwise occur at a retina of the user due to image light passing through optics of the HMD. The aberration-adjusted image corrects the aberrations of the HMD and “accounts” for the aberrations of the eye so that the resulting retinal image is free of optical aberrations due to the HMD but preserves correct eye optical aberrations that are correlated with a current accommodative state of the eye.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2019Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: William Aaron Nicholls, Marina Zannoli, Douglas Robert Lanman, Nicholas Daniel Trail
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Patent number: 10992721Abstract: Techniques for providing live content at different quality levels to a user device include advertising content availability at multiple quality levels for selection by the user device, receiving a quality level selection from the user device, wherein the quality level selection matches one of the advertised multiple quality levels, determining whether the received quality level selection differs from a currently used quality level, when it is determined that the received quality level selection is different from the currently used quality level, reconfiguring a transcoder to transcode the live content to only the received quality level, and updating a metafile to include a first quality level at a first bitrate lower than a bitrate for the received quality level selection and a second quality level at a second bitrate higher than the bitrate for the received quality level selection.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2019Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: OPENTV, INC.Inventors: Claes Georg Andersson, Nicholas Daniel Doerring, Nicholas Fishwick, John Michael Teixeira
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Publication number: 20210089896Abstract: An image processing system with a trained neural network examines images to identify design elements present in objects depicted in those images. The image processing system can evaluate a set of images, some of which have been labeled or associated with bins of a set of bins, to identify differences between an actual distribution among the set of bins and a target distribution among the set of bins. From the differences, a second trained neural network, or other computer process, can evaluate the distributions to determine garments or garment features that are underrepresented or overrepresented in the set of images.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2020Publication date: March 25, 2021Inventors: Nicholas Daniel Clayton, Camilla Marie Olson, Jungah Joo Lee, Sheng Liu
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Patent number: 10955659Abstract: A light assembly can have an array of light sources forming rows and columns, where the array comprises a plurality of chips, and each chip comprises a subarray of light sources forming the rows and columns. A boundary between chips in the array can be configured to extend diagonally across rows and columns of the array such that, for each column across which the boundary extends, the first row of the plurality rows may not have a light source disposed in the respective column, but a second row of the plurality of rows has a light source disposed in the respective column.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2018Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Vincent Brennan, James Small, William Anthony Wall, Stephen Warren Gorton, Wanli Chi, Nicholas Daniel Trail
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Patent number: 10942355Abstract: The disclosed projector device may include (1) a first monochromatic emitter array having a plurality of emitters of a first color disposed in a two-dimensional configuration and (2) a second monochromatic emitter array having a plurality of emitters of a second color disposed in a two-dimensional configuration. The first and second monochromatic emitter arrays may be configured to emit images of the first and second colors into a waveguide configuration, and the first color may be different than the second color. Associated display systems and methods are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: Nicholas Daniel Trail, James Ronald Bonar, Gareth Valentine
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Patent number: 10935797Abstract: A head-mounted display (HMD) includes a multifocal block having one or more possible focal distances and includes a multifocal structure. The multifocal structure has a first focal distance and a second focal distance of the one or more possible focal distances. The multifocal structure includes one or more optical components positioned in series such that light from an electronic display is received and passes through each of the one or more optical components at least once before being output from the multifocal structure. The one or more optical components includes a switchable half waveplate (SHWP). The SHWP has a first state that causes the multifocal structure to output image light at the first focal distance, and a second state that causes the multifocal structure to output the image light at the first focal distance.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2019Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: Yusufu Njoni Bamaxam Sulai, Nicholas Daniel Trail, Wai Sze Tiffany Lam
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Patent number: 10928635Abstract: A headset includes a display assembly. The display assembly has a primary portion and a peripheral portion. The primary portion of the display assembly is configured to emit a first portion of image light, and has a first field of view (FOV). The peripheral portion of the display assembly is configured to emit a second portion of the image light over a second FOV, and the peripheral portion is canted relative to the primary portion. The emitted first portion of image light and the emitted second portion of image light create a composite FOV from the perspective of an eyebox, and a seam between the first FOV and the second FOV is located in a peripheral region of the composite FOV.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: Nicholas Daniel Trail, Andrew John Ouderkirk, Pasi Saarikko, Sharvil Shailesh Talati, Hee Yoon Lee, Behnam Bastani
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Patent number: 10918973Abstract: A device for medium separation, in particular for separation of gases, such as air, from a fluid, such as oil, has a separating device (22) accommodated in a housing (1). When the medium is received via an inlet point (24) of the housing (1), this medium is rotated for the separation. The housing (1) has at least one outlet point (26) for gas and at least one outlet point (16) for fluid, which outlet points are separated from one another. A filter device (40) is in the housing for the separation of particulate contamination and is arranged after the separating device (22) in the direction of flow of the fluid.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2017Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: HYDAC TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: James Jay Cardillo, Jr., Joe Quirk, Nicholas Daniel Gregory, Ryan Matthews Frederick, William Michael Sassano, Brian A. Schreiber
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Patent number: 10914956Abstract: A headset includes a first waveguide display and a second waveguide display. The first waveguide display is configured to emit a first portion of image light, the first waveguide display having a first field of view (FOV). The second display assembly is configured to emit a second portion of the image light, and the second display assembly has a second FOV. The first waveguide display and the second display assembly are tiled such that the emitted first portion of image light and the emitted second portion of image light create a tiled FOV from a perspective of an eyebox. And a seam between the first FOV and the second FOV is located in a peripheral region of the tiled FOV.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2019Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: Nicholas Daniel Trail, Andrew John Ouderkirk, Pasi Saarikko, Sharvil Shailesh Talati, Hee Yoon Lee, Behnam Bastani, Hagar Edelstain
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Patent number: 10908428Abstract: The disclosed system may include (1) a processing device that generates image data, (2) a wearable display device including (a) a display subsystem that presents an image based on the image data to a user wearing the wearable display device and (b) a battery to supply power to the wearable display device, where the wearable display device receives the image data from the processing device over a data connection, and the wearable display device is physically separate from the processing device, and (3) a display storage case for the wearable display device, where the storage case charges the battery of the wearable display device while the wearable display device resides in the storage case, and the processing device wirelessly charges the battery of the wearable display device while the wearable display device resides atop the processing device external to the storage case. Various other methods and systems are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2019Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventor: Nicholas Daniel Trail
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Patent number: 10895746Abstract: A near-eye display (NED) includes a source assembly, a waveguide outside a field-of-view of a user, and a main optic within the field-of-view. The waveguide expands light emitted from the source assembly in at least one dimension and out-couple the expanded light. The main optic is partially transparent and is positioned such that the user of the NED looks through the main optic to view a local area surrounding the NED. The main optic receives light from the local area, combines the received light with the expanded light to generate combined light, and directs the combined light to the user's eye-box.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2017Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventor: Nicholas Daniel Trail
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Publication number: 20210007307Abstract: A hydroponic growing system is presented. The system can include multiple growing trays in a vertical arrangement, where a pump supplies the top-most tray and each lower tray is supplied by the overlying tray, and where the plumbing elements for supply and drainage are arranged to one side of the system. The system includes variations to support different crop types within the same system, including removable growing structures for root vegetable, microgreens and supports for vining crops. The system can monitor and adjust the nutrients and other features of the systems water profile to concurrently group multiple crops in differing developing stages.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2019Publication date: January 14, 2021Applicant: Harvest2o LLCInventors: Henry W. Adams, Craig Field Sampson, Sergio Alonso Marquina, Nicholas Daniel Phillips, Sullivan S. Stewart, Angelo E. Kelvakis, Brandon C. Bay, Enrique Lopez Salido, Diego Alonso Blondet Padro, Jason Matthew Domanski
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Publication number: 20210007303Abstract: A hydroponic growing system is presented. The system can include multiple growing trays in a vertical arrangement, where a pump supplies the top-most tray and each lower tray is supplied by the overlying tray, and where the plumbing elements for supply and drainage are arranged to one side of the system. The system includes variations to support different crop types within the same system, including removable growing structures for root vegetable, microgreens and supports for vining crops. The system can monitor and adjust the nutrients and other features of the systems water profile to concurrently group multiple crops in differing developing stages.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2019Publication date: January 14, 2021Applicant: Harvest2o LLCInventors: Henry W. Adams, Craig Field Sampson, Sergio Alonso Marquina, Nicholas Daniel Phillips, Sullivan S. Stewart, Angelo E. Kelvakis, Brandon C. Bay, Enrique Lopez Salido
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Patent number: 10893260Abstract: An augmented reality (AR) headset includes a depth camera assembly that combines stereo imaging with structured light (SL) to generate depth information for an area of interest. The depth camera assembly includes at least two image capture devices and a SL illuminator and determines an imaging mode based on a signal to noise ratio or spatial variance of images captured by one or more of the cameras. Different imaging modes correspond to different operation of one or more image capture devices and the SL illuminator. The depth camera assembly includes different ranges of signal to noise ratios that each correspond to an imaging mode, and the depth camera assembly configures the image capture devices and the SL illuminator based on an imaging mode associated with a range of signal to noise ratios including the signal to noise ratio of a captured image.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2019Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLCInventors: Nicholas Daniel Trail, Alexander Jobe Fix
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Patent number: D928348Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Associated Materials, LLCInventors: Charles Bryan Moses, Jr., Nicholas Daniel Thompson