Patents by Inventor Oliver Michael Christian Williams
Oliver Michael Christian Williams 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: 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: 9514571Abstract: 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: July 25, 2013Date of Patent: December 6, 2016Assignee: 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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Publication number: 20160343172Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2016Publication date: November 24, 2016Applicant: 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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Publication number: 20150029218Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2013Publication date: January 29, 2015Inventors: 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: 8488888Abstract: Systems and methods for estimating a posture of a body part of a user are disclosed. In one disclosed embodiment, an image is received from a sensor, where the image includes at least a portion of an image of the user including the body part. The skeleton information of the user is estimated from the image, a region of the image corresponding to the body part is identified at least partially based on the skeleton information, and a shape descriptor is extracted for the region and the shape descriptor is classified based on training data to estimate the posture of the body part.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2010Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Alexandru Balan, Matheen Siddiqui, Ryan M. Geiss, Alex Aben-Athar Kipman, Oliver Michael Christian Williams, Jamie Shotton
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Publication number: 20120163723Abstract: Systems and methods for estimating a posture of a body part of a user are disclosed. In one disclosed embodiment, an image is received from a sensor, where the image includes at least a portion of an image of the user including the body part. The skeleton information of the user is estimated from the image, a region of the image corresponding to the body part is identified at least partially based on the skeleton information, and a shape descriptor is extracted for the region and the shape descriptor is classified based on training data to estimate the posture of the body part.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2010Publication date: June 28, 2012Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Alexandru Balan, Matheen Siddiqui, Ryan M. Geiss, Alex Aben-Athar Kipman, Oliver Michael Christian Williams, Jamie Shotton