Patents by Inventor Peter Anthony VAN EERD

Peter Anthony VAN EERD 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).

  • Publication number: 20240089418
    Abstract: A method is provided of parallel gathering of structured light patterns in multi-projector systems, comprising sequentially projecting images from each of a plurality of projectors on a surface; capturing the sequentially projected images on the surface via at least one sensing device; creating one or more sensing device/projector masks for limiting the images projected by each of the plurality of projectors to portions that do not conflict with images projected by other ones of the plurality of projectors; using the one or more projector masks to create a graph of projectors whose projections conflict; and creating from the graph a plurality of gather groups wherein projectors within a group do not conflict with each other for simultaneously gathering structured light patterns from projectors in each of the gather groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Matthew POST, Peter Anthony VAN EERD, Anda ACHIMESCU, Huck KIM
  • Publication number: 20230319246
    Abstract: A method of calibrating a display system, the method comprising: displaying a test pattern including a plurality of blobs; detecting one or more base blobs in the displayed test pattern; identifying, based on the detected base blobs, patches of the test pattern, wherein each patch comprises one of the base blobs and a subset of additional blobs detected in the displayed test pattern; determining a patch location for at least one patch within the test pattern based on the subset of the additional blobs in the patch to determine a blob location for at least one detected blob; determining a calibration parameter for the display system based on the blob location and a detected attribute of the at least one detected blob; and calibrating the projector using the calibration parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Matthew Post, Peter Anthony Van Eerd
  • Publication number: 20230247185
    Abstract: A method of calibrating a display system, the method comprising: displaying a test pattern including a plurality of blobs; detecting one or more base blobs in the displayed test pattern; identifying, based on the detected base blobs, patches of the test pattern, wherein each patch comprises one of the base blobs and a subset of additional blobs detected in the displayed test pattern; determining a patch location for at least one patch within the test pattern based on the subset of the additional blobs in the patch to determine a blob location for at least one detected blob; determining a calibration parameter for the display system based on the blob location and a detected attribute of the at least one detected blob; and calibrating the projector using the calibration parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Matthew Post, Peter Anthony Van Eerd
  • Patent number: 11711500
    Abstract: A method of calibrating a display system, the method comprising: displaying a test pattern including a plurality of blobs; detecting one or more base blobs in the displayed test pattern; identifying, based on the detected base blobs, patches of the test pattern, wherein each patch comprises one of the base blobs and a subset of additional blobs detected in the displayed test pattern; determining a patch location for at least one patch within the test pattern based on the subset of the additional blobs in the patch to determine a blob location for at least one detected blob; determining a calibration parameter for the display system based on the blob location and a detected attribute of the at least one detected blob; and calibrating the projector using the calibration parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Inventors: Matthew Post, Peter Anthony Van Eerd
  • Patent number: 11611732
    Abstract: A method of aligning a plurality of color channels of a projector is provided. The method includes: for each color channel, (i) projecting test pattern on a surface; (ii) capturing image of the test pattern generated on the surface; and (iii) adding the captured image to an image set. Once the captured images for each color channel are added to an image set, identifying a reference position based on the image set. This is followed by processing the image set to estimate a divergence of the respective test patterns for each color channel with respect to the reference position, followed by computing a corrective function for each color channel and applying the respective corrective function to each color channel to align the color channel to the reference position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Inventors: Andrew Dennison, Christopher John Gordon, Simon Thomson, Peter Anthony Van Eerd, Colin Bartlett Yardley, Chad Faragher
  • Publication number: 20230068614
    Abstract: A method of aligning a plurality of color channels of a projector is provided. The method includes: for each color channel, (i) projecting test pattern on a surface; (ii) capturing image of the test pattern generated on the surface; and (iii) adding the captured image to an image set. Once the captured images for each color channel are added to an image set, identifying a reference position based on the image set. This is followed by processing the image set to estimate a divergence of the respective test patterns for each color channel with respect to the reference position, followed by computing a corrective function for each color channel and applying the respective corrective function to each color channel to align the color channel to the reference position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Andrew Dennison, Christopher John Gordon, Simon Thomson, Peter Anthony Van Eerd, Colin Bartlett Yardley, Chad Faragher
  • Patent number: 10298893
    Abstract: A system and method for digital black level blending is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: CHRISTIE DIGITAL SYSTEMS USA, INC.
    Inventors: Kevin Moule, Nick Wasilka, Peter Anthony Van Eerd, Andrew Douglas Dennison, Ryan Thomas Morris, Daniel Thomson Urquhart
  • Patent number: 9992464
    Abstract: A method, system, and a computer readable medium for screen correction is provided. The system includes a memory storage unit for storing model content, a screen having screen parameters, an input device for receiving the screen parameters, a correction engine, and a projector. The method involves storing model content on a memory storage unit, receiving screen parameters, generating screen content, and projection at least a portion of the screen content onto the screen. The computer readable medium encoded with codes for directing a processor to carry out the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: CHRISTIE DIGITAL SYSTEMS USA, INC.
    Inventors: Daniel Thomson Urquhart, Ian Chadwyck Faragher, Derek Scott, Peter Anthony Van Eerd, Nicholas David Jankovic, Kevin Moule
  • Publication number: 20180139423
    Abstract: A system and method for digital black level blending is provided. The system comprises: projectors located to project respective images, onto a screen, that overlap in one or more overlap regions; at least one camera; and a computing device configured to, for each given projector: determine, using the at least one camera, respective correspondences between projected points of a given image, projected onto the screen by the given projector, and respective points of respective image modulators of other projectors of the projectors, the respective correspondences representing the respective points of the respective image modulators of the other projectors that correspond to overlap regions; determine respective brightness of the overlap regions; and, control pixels of an image modulator of the projector, and each of the respective image modulators, at least adjacent edge pixels corresponding to edges of overlap regions, to increase brightness in corresponding image regions using the respective brightness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventors: Kevin MOULE, Nick WASILKA, Peter Anthony VAN EERD, Andrew Douglas DENNISON, Ryan Thomas MORRIS, Daniel Thomson URQUHART
  • Publication number: 20180139424
    Abstract: A method, system, and a computer readable medium for screen correction is provided. The system includes a memory storage unit for storing model content, a screen having screen parameters, an input device for receiving the screen parameters, a correction engine, and a projector. The method involves storing model content on a memory storage unit, receiving screen parameters, generating screen content, and projection at least a portion of the screen content onto the screen. The computer readable medium encoded with codes for directing a processor to carry out the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventors: Daniel Thomson URQUHART, Ian Chadwyck FARAGHER, Derek SCOTT, Peter Anthony VAN EERD, Nicholas David JANKOVIC, Kevin MOULE
  • Publication number: 20180139422
    Abstract: A system and method for digital black level blending is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventors: Kevin MOULE, Nick WASILKA, Peter Anthony VAN EERD, Andrew Douglas DENNISON, Ryan Thomas MORRIS, Daniel Thomson URQUHART
  • Patent number: 9922206
    Abstract: A system and method to exchange data among applications are disclosed. A request for information that includes private information is received from a user application. A respective indicator for each private information field within the requested information is determined. A protected set of information is provided to the user application. The protected set of information comprises the requested information with the respective indicator replacing the private information in each private information field of the requested information. At least one indicator is received from the user application. The original data corresponding to the received at least one indicator is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Peter Anthony Van Eerd, Richard Jeffrey Kehres, James Walkoski
  • Publication number: 20170098097
    Abstract: A system and method to exchange data among applications are disclosed. A request for information that includes private information is received from a user application. A respective indicator for each private information field within the requested information is determined. A protected set of information is provided to the user application. The protected set of information comprises the requested information with the respective indicator replacing the private information in each private information field of the requested information. At least one indicator is received from the user application. The original data corresponding to the received at least one indicator is determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Peter Anthony VAN EERD, Richard Jeffrey KEHRES, James WALKOSKI
  • Patent number: 9588680
    Abstract: An example method includes displaying a first control and a second control, wherein a touch associated with the controls results in moving an indicator through information in a first direction and in a second direction, in response to the detecting a first touch associated with the first control, moving the indicator in the first direction, and in response to detecting a second touch associated with the second control, moving the indicator in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2017
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Peter Anthony Van Eerd, Sean David Drew Wilson, James Clement Ehrismann
  • Patent number: 9383921
    Abstract: An example method includes associating a first area of a non-display area of a touch-sensitive display with a first control, wherein a touch associated with the first control results in moving an indicator through the information in a first direction and in a second direction. The method may also include associating a second area of the non-display area with a second control, wherein a touch associated with the second control results in moving the indicator through the information in the first direction and in the second direction. The method may also include detecting a first touch associated with the first control, in response to detecting the first touch, moving the indicator in the first direction, detecting a second touch associated with the second control, and in response to detecting the second touch, moving the indicator in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Peter Anthony Van Eerd, Sean David Drew Wilson, James Ehrismann
  • Patent number: 9263003
    Abstract: Methods and systems which may implement buffer swapping are provided. The methods include rendering, onto screen locations of a display screen, data from a memory having a first buffer and a second buffer, each buffer having respective buffer memory locations which correspond to the screen locations of the display screen. The methods can include: rendering first data from the first buffer onto the display screen; writing, to the second buffer, second data based on at least some of the first data from the first buffer by performing at least one of transforming at least some first data and changing corresponding screen locations of at least some first data from the first buffer, by writing at most once to each buffer memory location of the second buffer; and rendering the second data from the second buffer onto the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Blackberry Limited
    Inventors: Peter Anthony Van Eerd, Richard Jeffrey Kehres, Carl Edward Kilgour Pacey
  • Publication number: 20150378601
    Abstract: An example method includes associating a first area of a non-display area of a touch-sensitive display with a first control, wherein a touch associated with the first control results in moving an indicator through the information in a first direction and in a second direction. The method may also include associating a second area of the non-display area with a second control, wherein a touch associated with the second control results in moving the indicator through the information in the first direction and in the second direction. The method may also include detecting a first touch associated with the first control, in response to detecting the first touch, moving the indicator in the first direction, detecting a second touch associated with the second control, and in response to detecting the second touch, moving the indicator in the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicant: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Peter Anthony Van Eerd, Sean David Drew Wilson, James Ehrismann
  • Patent number: 9141280
    Abstract: An example method includes associating a first area of a non-display area of a touch-sensitive display with a first control, wherein a touch associated with the first control results in moving an indicator through the information in a first direction and in a second direction. The method may also include associating a second area of the non-display area with a second control, wherein a touch associated with the second control results in moving the indicator through the information in the first direction and in the second direction. The method may also include detecting a first touch associated with the first control, in response to detecting the first touch, moving the indicator in the first direction, detecting a second touch associated with the second control, and in response to detecting the second touch, moving the indicator in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Peter Anthony Van Eerd, Sean David Drew Wilson, James Clement Ehrismann
  • Patent number: 8810529
    Abstract: A method includes detecting movement of a touch on a touch-sensitive display of an electronic device from a first touch location to a second touch location. When the distance between the first touch location and the second touch location meets a first threshold, the second touch location is reported to an application layer of the electronic device. After the first threshold is met, a third touch location is reported to the application layer when movement of the touch from the second touch location to the third touch location is detected and the distance between the second touch location and the third touch location meets a second threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Blackberry Limited
    Inventors: Peter Anthony Van Eerd, Igor Krivoshlykov, Martin George Albert Guthrie
  • Publication number: 20130194194
    Abstract: A method includes detecting a touch at a first location on a touch-sensitive display, detecting the touch at a second location on the touch-sensitive display, calculating a third location based on the first location and the second location, and displaying information utilizing the third location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2012
    Publication date: August 1, 2013
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Peter Anthony VAN EERD, Todd Edward Lang, Daniel William Van Geest