Patents by Inventor Rick D. Welsh

Rick D. Welsh 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: 7634606
    Abstract: An expandable system for mobile navigation facilitates a modular implementation of structural units to add desired functionality to a base navigation device. The system is embodied as a handheld mobile navigation device in one arrangement, including a base unit housing containing circuitry for determining a geographic location of the navigation device and a module unit housing containing circuitry for delivering additional functional activity. In particular, the base unit housing includes a primary interface for interconnecting with a secondary interface of the module unit housing, to enable signals generated or handled by a circuitry component of the module unit to be relayed to the circuitry of the base unit housing. Additionally, the module unit housing is configured to be releasably attached directly with the base unit housing upon the primary interface and secondary interface interconnecting with one another, to form the mobile navigation device as a physically connected package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: Microsoft Corproation
    Inventors: Gur Kimchi, Jeffrey D. Couckuyt, Thomas A. Bailey, Rick D. Welsh
  • Publication number: 20080228982
    Abstract: An expandable system for mobile navigation facilitates a modular implementation of structural units to add desired functionality to a base navigation device. The system is embodied as a handheld mobile navigation device in one arrangement, including a base unit housing containing circuitry for determining a geographic location of the navigation device and a module unit housing containing circuitry for delivering additional functional activity. In particular, the base unit housing includes a primary interface for interconnecting with a secondary interface of the module unit housing, to enable signals generated or handled by a circuitry component of the module unit to be relayed to the circuitry of the base unit housing. Additionally, the module unit housing is configured to be releasably attached directly with the base unit housing upon the primary interface and secondary interface interconnecting with one another, to form the mobile navigation device as a physically connected package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2007
    Publication date: September 18, 2008
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Gur Kimchi, Jeffrey D. Couckuyt, Thomas A. Bailey, Rick D. Welsh
  • Publication number: 20080043020
    Abstract: The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates providing an immerse view having at least one portion related to aerial view data and a disparate portion related to a first-person ground-level view. A receiver component can receive at least one of geographic data and an input. An interface component can generate an immersed view based on at least one of the geographic data and the input, the immersed view includes a first portion of aerial data and a second portion of a first-person perspective view corresponding to a location related to the aerial data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2006
    Publication date: February 21, 2008
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bradford J. Snow, Chandrasekhar Thota, Rick D. Welsh, Jayaram N.M. Nanduri, Eyal Ofek, Stephen L. Lawler, Sean S. Rowe