Patents by Inventor Richard J. Wifall

Richard J. Wifall 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).

  • Localizing devices in augmented reality environment
    Patent number: 9865091
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed herein that relate to identifying and localizing devices in an environment via an augmented reality display device. One example provides, on a portable augmented reality computing device, a method including establishing a coordinate frame for an environment, and discovering, via a location-sensitive input device, a location of a physical manifestation of the device in the environment, assigning a device location for the device in the coordinate frame based upon the location of the physical manifestation, and modifying an output of the portable augmented reality computing device based upon a change in relative position between the portable augmented reality computing device and the physical manifestation in environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Riccardo Giraldi, Anatolie Gavriliuc, Michelle Chua, Andrew Frederick Muehlhausen, Robert Thomas Held, Joseph van den Heuvel, Todd Alan Omotani, Richard J. Wifall, Christian Sadak, Gregory Alt
  • LOCALIZING DEVICES IN AUGMENTED REALITY ENVIRONMENT
    Publication number: 20170061692
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed herein that relate to identifying and localizing devices in an environment via an augmented reality display device. One example provides, on a portable augmented reality computing device, a method including establishing a coordinate frame for an environment, and discovering, via a location-sensitive input device, a location of a physical manifestation of the device in the environment, assigning a device location for the device in the coordinate frame based upon the location of the physical manifestation, and modifying an output of the portable augmented reality computing device based upon a change in relative position between the portable augmented reality computing device and the physical manifestation in environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Riccardo Giraldi, Anatolie Gavriliuc, Michelle Chua, Andrew Frederick Muehlhausen, Robert Thomas Held, Joseph van den Heuvel, Todd Alan Omotani, Richard J. Wifall, Christian Sadak, Gregory Alt