Patents by Inventor Philip Victor Harman

Philip Victor Harman 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: 20020075384
    Abstract: A tracking system is provided for locating the eyes of a viewer including: an illumination element; a plurality of cameras; and a processor; wherein at least the viewer's eyes are illuminated by the illumination element to enable capture by each camera, and wherein the processor is adapted to process images from each camera so as to detect the position of the viewer's eyes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2002
    Publication date: June 20, 2002
    Applicant: Dynamic Digital Depth Research Pty. Ltd.
    Inventor: Philip Victor Harman
  • Publication number: 20020063780
    Abstract: A local station for a teleconferencing system including a tracking means for locating the eyes and/or head of a local viewer, a projection means adapted to project left and right eyes images from a remote station to respective left and right eyes of the local viewer, an image capture means adapted to capture and transmit left and right eye images of the local viewer to the remote station; wherein the projection means is movable in response to movements of the local viewer and wherein the image capture means is movable in response to control signals from the remote station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2001
    Publication date: May 30, 2002
    Inventors: Philip Victor Harman, John Otis Merritt
  • Publication number: 20020048395
    Abstract: A method of creating a depth map including the steps of assigning a depth to at least one pixel or portion of an image, determining relative location and image characteristics for each at least one pixel or portion of the image, utilising the depth(s), image characteristics and respective location to determine an algorithm to ascertain depth characteristics as a function relative location and image characteristics, utilising said algorithm to calculate a depth characteristic for each pixel or portion of the image, wherein the depth characteristics form a depth map for the image. In a second phase of processing the said depth maps form key frames for the generation of depth maps for non-key frames using relative location, image characteristics and distance to key frame(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2001
    Publication date: April 25, 2002
    Inventors: Philip Victor Harman, Simon Richard Fox, Mark Robert Dowley, Julien Charles Flack