Patents by Inventor Randall E. HAND

Randall E. HAND 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: 20230274511
    Abstract: An augmented reality display system comprises a passable world model data comprises a set of map points corresponding to one or more objects of the real world. The augmented reality system also comprises a processor to communicate with one or more individual augmented reality display systems to pass a portion of the passable world model data to the one or more individual augmented reality display systems, wherein the piece of the passable world model data is passed based at least in part on respective locations corresponding to the one or more individual augmented reality display systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: MAGIC LEAP, INC.
    Inventors: Samuel A. Miller, Randall E. Hand, Richmond B. Chan
  • Publication number: 20230099062
    Abstract: Augmented and virtual reality display systems increase viewer comfort by reducing viewer exposure to virtual content that causes undesirable accommodation-vergence mismatches (AVM). The display systems limit displaying content that exceeds an accommodation-vergence mismatch threshold, which may define a volume around the viewer. The volume may be subdivided into two or more zones, including an innermost loss-of-fusion zone (LoF) in which no content is displayed, and one or more outer AVM zones in which the displaying of content may be stopped, or clipped, under certain conditions. For example, content may be clipped if the viewer is verging within an AVM zone and if the content is displayed within the AVM zone for more than a threshold duration. A further possible condition for clipping content is that the user is verging on that content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Brian David Schwab, Randall E. Hand, Björn Nicolaas Servatius Vlaskamp
  • Patent number: 11532118
    Abstract: Augmented and virtual reality display systems increase viewer comfort by reducing viewer exposure to virtual content that causes undesirable accommodation-vergence mismatches (AVM). The display systems limit displaying content that exceeds an accommodation-vergence mismatch threshold, which may define a volume around the viewer. The volume may be subdivided into two or more zones, including an innermost loss-of-fusion zone (LoF) in which no content is displayed, and one or more outer AVM zones in which the displaying of content may be stopped, or clipped, under certain conditions. For example, content may be clipped if the viewer is verging within an AVM zone and if the content is displayed within the AVM zone for more than a threshold duration. A further possible condition for clipping content is that the user is verging on that content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian David Schwab, Randall E. Hand, Björn Nicolaas Servatius Vlaskamp
  • Publication number: 20220301269
    Abstract: An augmented reality display system comprises a passable world model data comprises a set of map points corresponding to one or more objects of the real world. The augmented reality system also comprises a processor to communicate with one or more individual augmented reality display systems to pass a portion of the passable world model data to the one or more individual augmented reality display systems, wherein the piece of the passable world model data is passed based at least in part on respective locations corresponding to the one or more individual augmented reality display systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: MAGIC LEAP, INC.
    Inventors: Samuel A. Miller, Randall E. Hand, Richmond B. Chan
  • Publication number: 20220191645
    Abstract: Examples of the disclosure describe systems and methods relating to mobile computing. According to an example method, a first user location of a user of a mobile computing system is determined. A first communication device in proximity to the first user location is identified based on the first user location. A first signal is communicated to the first communication device. A first information payload based on the first user location is received from the first communication device, in response to the first communication device receiving the first signal. Video or audio data based on the first information payload is presented to the user at a first time during which the user is at the first user location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventor: Randall E. HAND
  • Publication number: 20210174574
    Abstract: Augmented and virtual reality display systems increase viewer comfort by reducing viewer exposure to virtual content that causes undesirable accommodation-vergence mismatches (AVM). The display systems limit displaying content that exceeds an accommodation-vergence mismatch threshold, which may define a volume around the viewer. The volume may be subdivided into two or more zones, including an innermost loss-of-fusion zone (LoF) in which no content is displayed, and one or more outer AVM zones in which the displaying of content may be stopped, or clipped, under certain conditions. For example, content may be clipped if the viewer is verging within an AVM zone and if the content is displayed within the AVM zone for more than a threshold duration. A further possible condition for clipping content is that the user is verging on that content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Brian David Schwab, Randall E. Hand, Björn Nicolaas Servatius Vlaskamp
  • Patent number: 10909760
    Abstract: An augmented reality system comprises one or more sensors configured for capturing a set of data indicative of an emotional state of a user of the augmented reality system, and a processor configured for discerning the emotional state of the user based at least in part on the captured set of data, and rendering the discerned emotional state on an avatar of the user. The avatar can be displayed as a virtual object when viewed through one or more augmented reality display systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel A. Miller, Randall E. Hand, Richmond B. Chan
  • Patent number: 10878620
    Abstract: Augmented and virtual reality display systems increase viewer comfort by reducing viewer exposure to virtual content that causes undesirable accommodation-vergence mismatches (AVM). The display systems limit displaying content that exceeds an accommodation-vergence mismatch threshold, which may define a volume around the viewer. The volume may be subdivided into two or more zones, including an innermost loss-of-fusion zone (LoF) in which no content is displayed, and one or more outer AVM zones in which the displaying of content may be stopped, or clipped, under certain conditions. For example, content may be clipped if the viewer is verging within an AVM zone and if the content is displayed within the AVM zone for more than a threshold duration. A further possible condition for clipping content is that the user is verging on that content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian David Schwab, Randall E. Hand, Björn Nicolaas Servatius Vlaskamp
  • Publication number: 20190311527
    Abstract: Augmented and virtual reality display systems increase viewer comfort by reducing viewer exposure to virtual content that causes undesirable accommodation-vergence mismatches (AVM). The display systems limit displaying content that exceeds an accommodation-vergence mismatch threshold, which may define a volume around the viewer. The volume may be subdivided into two or more zones, including an innermost loss-of-fusion zone (LoF) in which no content is displayed, and one or more outer AVM zones in which the displaying of content may be stopped, or clipped, under certain conditions. For example, content may be clipped if the viewer is verging within an AVM zone and if the content is displayed within the AVM zone for more than a threshold duration. A further possible condition for clipping content is that the user is verging on that content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: Brian David Schwab, Randall E. Hand, Björn Nicolaas Servatius Vlaskamp
  • Patent number: 10262462
    Abstract: An augmented reality display system comprises a passable world model data comprises a set of map points corresponding to one or more objects of the real world. The augmented reality system also comprises a processor to communicate with one or more individual augmented reality display systems to pass a portion of the passable world model data to the one or more individual augmented reality display systems, wherein the piece of the passable world model data is passed based at least in part on respective locations corresponding to the one or more individual augmented reality display systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel A. Miller, Randall E. Hand, Philip O'Connor, Richmond B. Chan, Paul M. Greco
  • Patent number: 10115233
    Abstract: An augmented reality display system comprises a passable world model data comprises a set of map points corresponding to one or more objects of the real world. The augmented reality system also comprises a processor to communicate with one or more individual augmented reality display systems to pass a portion of the passable world model data to the one or more individual augmented reality display systems, wherein the piece of the passable world model data is passed based at least in part on respective locations corresponding to the one or more individual augmented reality display systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel A. Miller, Randall E. Hand
  • Patent number: 10115232
    Abstract: An augmented reality display system comprises a passable world model data comprises a set of map points corresponding to one or more objects of the real world. The augmented reality system also comprises a processor to communicate with one or more individual augmented reality display systems to pass a portion of the passable world model data to the one or more individual augmented reality display systems, wherein the piece of the passable world model data is passed based at least in part on respective locations corresponding to the one or more individual augmented reality display systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: MAGIC LEAP, INC.
    Inventors: Samuel A. Miller, Randall E. Hand
  • Patent number: 10109108
    Abstract: A method of displaying augmented reality comprises capturing a set of map points pertaining to the real world, wherein the set of map points are captured through a plurality of augmented reality systems, determining a position of a plurality of keyframes that captured the set of map points, and determining a set of new map points based at least in part on the captured set of map points and the determined position of the plurality of keyframes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: MAGIC LEAP, INC.
    Inventors: Samuel A. Miller, Randall E. Hand
  • Patent number: 10043312
    Abstract: An augmented reality system comprises one or more sensors to capture a set of map points pertaining to the real world, wherein the set of map points are captured through a plurality of augmented reality systems, and a processor to determine a position of a plurality of keyframes that captured the set of map points, and to determine a set of new map points based at least in part on the captured set of map points and the determined position of the plurality of keyframes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel A. Miller, Randall E. Hand
  • Patent number: 9978182
    Abstract: A virtual image generation system and method of operating same is provided. An end user is allowed to visualize the object of interest in a three-dimensional scene. A text region is spatially associated with the object of interest. A textual message that identifies at least one characteristic of the object of interest is generated. A textual message is streamed within the text region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: MAGIC LEAP, INC.
    Inventors: Ivan Li Chuen Yeoh, Samuel A. Miller, Randall E. Hand, Lionel Ernest Edwin, Philip O'Connor, Brian David Schwab, Spencer Lindsay
  • Publication number: 20170032575
    Abstract: A virtual image generation system and method of operating same is provided. An end user is allowed to visualize the object of interest in a three-dimensional scene. A text region is spatially associated with the object of interest. A textual message that identifies at least one characteristic of the object of interest is generated. A textual message is streamed within the text region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Applicant: MAGIC LEAP, INC.
    Inventors: Ivan Yeoh, Samuel A. Miller, Randall E. Hand, Lionel Ernest Edwin, Philip O'Connor, Brian Schwab, Spencer Lindsay
  • Publication number: 20150356784
    Abstract: An augmented reality display system comprises a passable world model data comprises a set of map points corresponding to one or more objects of the real world. The augmented reality system also comprises a processor to communicate with one or more individual augmented reality display systems to pass a portion of the passable world model data to the one or more individual augmented reality display systems, wherein the piece of the passable world model data is passed based at least in part on respective locations corresponding to the one or more individual augmented reality display systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2015
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Applicant: MAGIC LEAP, INC.
    Inventors: Samuel A. MILLER, Randall E. HAND
  • Publication number: 20150356782
    Abstract: An augmented reality display system comprises a passable world model data comprises a set of map points corresponding to one or more objects of the real world. The augmented reality system also comprises a processor to communicate with one or more individual augmented reality display systems to pass a portion of the passable world model data to the one or more individual augmented reality display systems, wherein the piece of the passable world model data is passed based at least in part on respective locations corresponding to the one or more individual augmented reality display systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2015
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Applicant: MAGIC LEAP, INC.
    Inventors: Samuel A. MILLER, Randall E. HAND, Richmond B. CHAN
  • Publication number: 20150356783
    Abstract: An augmented reality display system comprises a passable world model data comprises a set of map points corresponding to one or more objects of the real world. The augmented reality system also comprises a processor to communicate with one or more individual augmented reality display systems to pass a portion of the passable world model data to the one or more individual augmented reality display systems, wherein the piece of the passable world model data is passed based at least in part on respective locations corresponding to the one or more individual augmented reality display systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2015
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Applicant: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel A. MILLER, Randall E. HAND, Richmond B. CHAN
  • Publication number: 20150302644
    Abstract: An augmented reality display system comprises a passable world model data comprises a set of map points corresponding to one or more objects of the real world. The augmented reality system also comprises a processor to communicate with one or more individual augmented reality display systems to pass a portion of the passable world model data to the one or more individual augmented reality display systems, wherein the piece of the passable world model data is passed based at least in part on respective locations corresponding to the one or more individual augmented reality display systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2015
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel A. MILLER, Randall E. HAND