Patents by Inventor Nicholas Gervase Fajt
Nicholas Gervase Fajt 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: 10788673Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for displaying virtual content. When a user is settled in a given geographic area, a full version of the content may be displayed at user-defined or processor-defined location. When the user is moving, for example leaving the geographic area, a mobile version of the content may be displayed at a body-locked position peripheral to the user's view.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2018Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Jason Scott, Evan Michael Keibler, Arthur Charles Tomlin, Jonathan Paulovich, Ron Amador-Leon, Jonathan Plumb, Nicholas Gervase Fajt
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Patent number: 10620717Abstract: In embodiments of a camera-based input device, the input device includes an inertial measurement unit that collects motion data associated with velocity and acceleration of the input device in an environment, such as in three-dimensional (3D) space. The input device also includes at least two visual light cameras that capture images of the environment. A positioning application is implemented to receive the motion data from the inertial measurement unit, and receive the images of the environment from the at least two visual light cameras. The positioning application can then determine positions of the input device based on the motion data and the images correlated with a map of the environment, and track a motion of the input device in the environment based on the determined positions of the input device.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2016Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Daniel Joseph McCulloch, Nicholas Gervase Fajt, Adam G. Poulos, Christopher Douglas Edmonds, Lev Cherkashin, Brent Charles Allen, Constantin Dulu, Muhammad Jabir Kapasi, Michael Grabner, Michael Edward Samples, Cecilia Bong, Miguel Angel Susffalich, Varun Ramesh Mani, Anthony James Ambrus, Arthur C. Tomlin, James Gerard Dack, Jeffrey Alan Kohler, Eric S. Rehmeyer, Edward D. Parker
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Patent number: 10613642Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed herein that relate to tuning gesture recognition characteristics for a device configured to receive gesture-based user inputs. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a head-mounted display device including a plurality of sensors, a display configured to present a user interface, a logic machine, and a storage machine that holds instructions executable by the logic machine to detect a gesture based upon information received from a first sensor of the plurality of sensors, perform an action in response to detecting the gesture, and determine whether the gesture matches an intended gesture input. The instructions are further executable to update a gesture parameter that defines the intended gesture input if it is determined that the gesture detected does not match the intended gesture input.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2014Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Michael Scavezze, Adam G. Poulos, John Bevis, Jeremy Lee, Daniel Joseph McCulloch, Nicholas Gervase Fajt
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Publication number: 20190107721Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for displaying virtual content. When a user is settled in a given geographic area, a full version of the content may be displayed at user-defined or processor-defined location. When the user is moving, for example leaving the geographic area, a mobile version of the content may be displayed at a body-locked position peripheral to the user's view.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2018Publication date: April 11, 2019Inventors: Jason SCOTT, Evan Michael KEIBLER, Arthur Charles TOMLIN, Jonathan PAULOVICH, Ron AMADOR-LEON, Jonathan PLUMB, Nicholas Gervase FAJT
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Patent number: 10235807Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for building virtual content from within a virtual environment using virtual tools to build and modify the virtual content.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2015Date of Patent: March 19, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Michael Thomas, Jonathan Paulovich, Adam G. Poulos, Omer Bilal Orhan, Marcus Ghaly, Cameron G. Brown, Nicholas Gervase Fajt, Matthew Kaplan
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Patent number: 10222981Abstract: Embodiments that relate to displaying holographic keyboard and hand images in a holographic environment are provided. In one embodiment depth information of an actual position of a user's hand is received from a capture device. The user's hand is spaced by an initial actual distance from the capture device, and a holographic keyboard image is displayed spatially separated by a virtual distance from a holographic hand image. The user's hand is determined to move to an updated actual distance from the capture device. In response, the holographic keyboard image is maintained spatially separated by substantially the virtual distance from the holographic hand image.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Rotem Bennet, Lewey Geselowitz, Wei Zhang, Adam G. Poulos, John Bevis, Kim Pascal Pimmel, Nicholas Gervase Fajt
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Patent number: 10156721Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for displaying virtual content. When a user is settled in a given geographic area, a full version of the content may be displayed at user-defined or processor-defined location. When the user is moving, for example leaving the geographic area, a mobile version of the content may be displayed at a body-locked position peripheral to the user's view.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2015Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Jason Scott, Evan Michael Keibler, Arthur Charles Tomlin, Jonathan Paulovich, Ron Amador-Leon, Jonathan Plumb, Nicholas Gervase Fajt
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Publication number: 20180005445Abstract: In embodiments of augmenting a moveable entity with a hologram, an alternate reality device includes a tracking system that can recognize an entity in an environment and track movement of the entity in the environment. The alternate reality device can also include a detection algorithm implemented to identify the entity recognized by the tracking system based on identifiable characteristics of the entity. A hologram positioning application is implemented to receive motion data from the tracking system, receive entity characteristic data from the detection algorithm, and determine a position and an orientation of the entity in the environment based on the motion data and the entity characteristic data. The hologram positioning application can then generate a hologram that appears associated with the entity as the entity moves in the environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2016Publication date: January 4, 2018Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Daniel Joseph McCulloch, Nicholas Gervase Fajt, Adam G. Poulos, Christopher Douglas Edmonds, Lev Cherkashin, Brent Charles Allen, Constantin Dulu, Muhammad Jabir Kapasi, Michael Grabner, Michael Edward Samples, Cecilia Bong, Miguel Angel Susffalich, Varun Ramesh Mani, Anthony James Ambrus, Arthur C. Tomlin, James Gerard Dack, Jeffrey Alan Kohler, Eric S. Rehmeyer, Edward D. Parker
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Publication number: 20180004308Abstract: In embodiments of a camera-based input device, the input device includes an inertial measurement unit that collects motion data associated with velocity and acceleration of the input device in an environment, such as in three-dimensional (3D) space. The input device also includes at least two visual light cameras that capture images of the environment. A positioning application is implemented to receive the motion data from the inertial measurement unit, and receive the images of the environment from the at least two visual light cameras. The positioning application can then determine positions of the input device based on the motion data and the images correlated with a map of the environment, and track a motion of the input device in the environment based on the determined positions of the input device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2016Publication date: January 4, 2018Inventors: Daniel Joseph McCulloch, Nicholas Gervase Fajt, Adam G. Poulos, Christopher Douglas Edmonds, Lev Cherkashin, Brent Charles Allen, Constantin Dulu, Muhammad Jabir Kapasi, Michael Grabner, Michael Edward Samples, Cecilia Bong, Miguel Angel Susffalich, Varun Ramesh Mani, Anthony James Ambrus, Arthur C. Tomlin, James Gerard Dack, Jeffrey Alan Kohler, Eric S. Rehmeyer, Edward D. Parker
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Publication number: 20170364261Abstract: Embodiments that relate to displaying holographic keyboard and hand images in a holographic environment are provided. In one embodiment depth information of an actual position of a user's hand is received from a capture device. The user's hand is spaced by an initial actual distance from the capture device, and a holographic keyboard image is displayed spatially separated by a virtual distance from a holographic hand image. The user's hand is determined to move to an updated actual distance from the capture device. In response, the holographic keyboard image is maintained spatially separated by substantially the virtual distance from the holographic hand image.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2017Publication date: December 21, 2017Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Rotem Bennet, Lewey Geselowitz, Wei Zhang, Adam G. Poulos, John Bevis, Kim Pascal Pimmel, Nicholas Gervase Fajt
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Patent number: 9846968Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for capturing views of a mixed reality environment from various perspectives which can be displayed on a monitor. The system includes one or more physical cameras at user-defined positions within the mixed reality environment. The system renders virtual objects in the mixed reality environment from the perspective of the one or more cameras. Real and virtual objects from the mixed reality environment may then be displayed from the perspective of the one or more cameras on one or more external, 2D monitor for viewing by others.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2015Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Arthur Charles Tomlin, Evan Michael Keibler, Nicholas Gervase Fajt, Brian J. Mount, Gregory Lowell Alt, Jorge Tosar, Jonathan Michael Lyons, Anthony J. Ambrus, Cameron Quinn Egbert, Will Guyman, Jeff W. McGlynn, Jeremy Hance, Roger Sebastian-Kevin Sylvan, Alexander Georg Pfaffe, Dan Kroymann, Erik Andrew Saltwell, Chris Word
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Publication number: 20170287219Abstract: A mixed reality system may comprise a head-mounted display (HMD) device with a location sensor from which the HMD device determines a location of the location sensor in space and a base station mounted a predetermined offset from the location sensor and configured to emit an electromagnetic field (EMF). An EMF sensor affixed to an object may be configured to sense a strength of the EMF. The HMD device may determine a location of the EMF sensor relative to the base station based on the sensed strength and determine a location of the EMF sensor in space based on the relative location, the predetermined offset, and the location of the location sensor in space. In some aspects, the HMD device may comprise a see-through display configured to display augmented reality images and overlay a hologram that corresponds to the location of the EMF sensor in space over time.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2016Publication date: October 5, 2017Inventors: Adam G. Poulos, Daniel Joseph McCulloch, Nicholas Gervase Fajt, Arthur Tomlin, Brian Mount, Lev Cherkashin, Lorenz Henric Jentz
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Patent number: 9779512Abstract: Methods for automatically generating a texture exemplar that may be used for rendering virtual objects that appear to be made from the texture exemplar are described. In some embodiments, a head-mounted display device (HMD) may identify a real-world object within an environment, acquire a three-dimensional model of the real-world object, determine a portion of the real-world object from which a texture exemplar is to be generated, capture one or more images of the portion of the real-world object, determine an orientation of the real-world object, and generate the texture exemplar using the one or more images, the three-dimensional model, and the orientation of the real-world object. The HMD may then render and display images of a virtual object such that the virtual object appears to be made from a virtual material associated with the texture exemplar.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2015Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Arthur C. Tomlin, Roger Sebastian-Kevin Sylvan, Dan Kroymann, Cameron G. Brown, Nicholas Gervase Fajt
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Patent number: 9766806Abstract: Embodiments that relate to displaying holographic keyboard and hand images in a holographic environment are provided. In one embodiment depth information of an actual position of a user's hand is received. Using the depth information, a holographic hand image representing the user's hand is displayed in a virtual hand plane in the holographic environment. In response to receiving a keyboard activation input from the user and using the depth information, the holographic keyboard image is adaptively displayed in a virtual keyboard plane in the holographic environment at a virtual distance under the holographic hand image representing the user's hand.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2014Date of Patent: September 19, 2017Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Rotem Bennet, Lewey Geselowitz, Wei Zhang, Adam G. Poulos, John Bevis, Kim Pascal Pimmel, Nicholas Gervase Fajt
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Patent number: 9761057Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed that relate to operating a user interface on an augmented reality computing device comprising a see-through display system. For example, one disclosed embodiment includes identifying one or more objects located outside a field of view of a user, and for each object of the one or more objects, providing to the user an indication of positional information associated with the object.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2016Date of Patent: September 12, 2017Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Thomas George Salter, Ben Sugden, Daniel Deptford, Robert Crocco, Jr., Brian Keane, Laura Massey, Alex Kipman, Peter Tobias Kinnebrew, Nicholas Kamuda, Zachary Quarles, Michael Scavezze, Ryan Hastings, Cameron Brown, Tony Ambrus, Jason Scott, John Bevis, Jamie B. Kirschenbaum, Nicholas Gervase Fajt, Michael Klucher, Relja Markovic, Stephen Latta, Daniel McCulloch
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Patent number: 9728010Abstract: Methods for generating virtual proxy objects and controlling the location of the virtual proxy objects within an augmented reality environment are described. In some embodiments, a head-mounted display device (HMD) may identify a real-world object for which to generate a virtual proxy object, generate the virtual proxy object corresponding with the real-world object, and display the virtual proxy object using the HMD such that the virtual proxy object is perceived to exist within an augmented reality environment displayed to an end user of the HMD. In some cases, image processing techniques may be applied to depth images derived from a depth camera embedded within the HMD in order to identify boundary points for the real-world object and to determine the dimensions of the virtual proxy object corresponding with the real-world object.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2014Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Mike Thomas, Cameron G. Brown, Nicholas Gervase Fajt, Jamie Bryant Kirschenbaum
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Patent number: 9652892Abstract: Various embodiments relating to creating a virtual shadow of an object in an image displayed with a see-through display are provided. In one embodiment, an image of a virtual object may be displayed with the see-through display. The virtual object may appear in front of a real-world background when viewed through the see-through display. A relative brightness of the real-world background around a virtual shadow of the virtual object may be increased when viewed through the see-through display. The virtual shadow may appear to result from a spotlight that is fixed relative to a vantage point of the see-through display.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2013Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Arthur Tomlin, Tony Ambrus, Ron Amador-Leon, Nicholas Gervase Fajt, Ryan Hastings, Matthew G. Kaplan, Michael Scavezze, Daniel McCulloch
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Publication number: 20170069143Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed that relate to operating a user interface on an augmented reality computing device comprising a see-through display system. For example, one disclosed embodiment includes identifying one or more objects located outside a field of view of a user, and for each object of the one or more objects, providing to the user an indication of positional information associated with the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2016Publication date: March 9, 2017Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Thomas George Salter, Ben Sugden, Daniel Deptford, Robert Crocco, JR., Brian Keane, Laura Massey, Alex Kipman, Peter Tobias Kinnebrew, Nicholas Kamuda, Zachary Quarles, Michael Scavezze, Ryan Hastings, Cameron Brown, Tony Ambrus, Jason Scott, John Bevis, Jamie B. Kirschenbaum, Nicholas Gervase Fajt, Michael Klucher, Relja Markovic, Stephen Latta, Daniel McCulloch
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Patent number: 9501873Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed that relate to operating a user interface on an augmented reality computing device comprising a see-through display system. For example, one disclosed embodiment includes identifying one or more objects located outside a field of view of a user, and for each object of the one or more objects, providing to the user an indication of positional information associated with the object.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2015Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Thomas George Salter, Ben Sugden, Daniel Deptford, Robert Crocco, Jr., Brian Keane, Laura Massey, Alex Kipman, Peter Tobias Kinnebrew, Nicholas Kamuda, Zachary Quarles, Michael Scavezze, Ryan Hastings, Cameron Brown, Tony Ambrus, Jason Scott, John Bevis, Jamie B. Kirschenbaum, Nicholas Gervase Fajt, Michael Klucher, Relja Markovic, Stephen Latta, Daniel McCulloch
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Publication number: 20160266386Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for displaying virtual content. When a user is settled in a given geographic area, a full version of the content may be displayed at user-defined or processor-defined location. When the user is moving, for example leaving the geographic area, a mobile version of the content may be displayed at a body-locked position peripheral to the user's view.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2015Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventors: Jason Scott, Evan Michael Keibler, Arthur Charles Tomlin, Jonathan Paulovich, Ron Amador-Leon, Jonathan Plumb, Nicholas Gervase Fajt