Patents by Inventor Paul Timothy Furgale

Paul Timothy Furgale 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: 12008717
    Abstract: An artificial reality environment (XRE) schema is defined that supports anel-controlling interactions between various artificial reality actors. The XRE schema includes a set of definitions for an XRE, independent of type of artificial reality device. The definitions in the XRE schema can include standards for both interfaces and data objects. The XRE schema can define XR elements in terms of entities and components of a space, organized according to a hierarchy. Each entity can represent a real or virtual object or space, within the XRE, defined by a name and a collection of one or more components. Each component (as part of an entity) can define aspects and expose information about the entity. The XRE schema can specify structures that that allow actors (e.g., producers, instantiators, and consumers) to define and perform actions in relation to XRE elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Gioacchino Noris, Michal Hlavac, Paul Timothy Furgale, Johannes Joachim Schmid, Anush Mohan, Christopher Richard Tanner
  • Publication number: 20240153223
    Abstract: In particular embodiments, a computing system may capture access a set of depth measurements and an image of a scene generated using one or more sensors of an artificial reality device. The system may generate, based on the image, a plurality of segmentation masks respectively associated with a plurality of object types. The system may segment, using the plurality of segmentation masks, the set of depth measurements into subsets of depth measurements respectively associated with the plurality of object types. The system may determine, for each object type, a three-dimensional (3D) model that best fits the subset of depth measurements corresponding to the object type. The system may refine, using 3D models determined for the plurality of object types, the subsets of depth measurements respectively associated with the plurality of object types and use refined depth measurements for mixed reality rendering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Andrey Tovchigrechko, Fabian Langguth, Alex Locher, Britta Hummel, Paul Timothy Furgale, Ricardo da Silveira Cabral, Sebastian Sztuk
  • Publication number: 20240119672
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method by a computing system comprising a color camera and two monochrome cameras respectively associated with two eyes of a user includes computing a point cloud corresponding to a visible environment based at least on two stereoscopic grayscale images respectively captured by the two monochrome cameras, generating a mesh corresponding to the visible environment based on the computed point cloud, and generating two stereoscopic colorized images to be respectively displayed to the two eyes of the user, where each of the two stereoscopic colorized images is generated using (1) the mesh, (2) luminance information from one of the two stereoscopic grayscale images that is associated with the eye to which the stereoscopic colorized image is to be displayed, and (3) color information from a color input image captured by the color camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Gaurav Chaurasia, Jan Oberländer, Ricardo da Silveira Cabral, Paul Timothy Furgale
  • Publication number: 20230011774
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to defining an artificial reality environment (XRE) and controlling interactions between various artificial reality actors with a defined XRE schema. The XRE schema includes a set of definitions for an XRE, independent of type of artificial reality device. The definitions in the XRE schema can include standards for both interfaces and data objects. The XRE schema can define XR elements in terms of entities and components of a space, organized according to a hierarchy. Each entity can represent a real or virtual object or space, within the XRE, defined by a name and a collection of one or more components. Each component (as part of an entity) can define aspects and expose information about the entity. The XRE schema can specify structures that that allow actors (e.g., producers, instantiators, and consumers) to define and perform actions in relation to XRE elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Gioacchino NORIS, Michal HLAVAC, Paul Timothy FURGALE, Johannes Joachim SCHMID, Anush MOHAN, Christopher Richard TANNER
  • Patent number: 11410387
    Abstract: In one embodiment for generating passthrough, a computing system may access images of an environment captured by cameras of a device worn by a user. The system may generate, based on the images, depth measurements of objects in the environment. The system may generate a mesh covering a field of view of the user and then update the mesh based on the depth measurements to represent a contour of the objects in the environment. The system may determine a first viewpoint of a first eye of the user and render a first output image based on the first viewpoint and the updated mesh. The system may then display the first output image on a first display of the device, the first display being configured to be viewed by the first eye of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC.
    Inventors: Matthew James Alderman, Gaurav Chaurasia, Paul Timothy Furgale, Lingwen Gan, Alexander Sorkine Hornung, Alexandru-Eugen Ichim, Arthur Nieuwoudt, Jan Oberländer, Gian Diego Tipaldi