Patents by Inventor Rick Morrison
Rick Morrison 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).
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Publication number: 20230088014Abstract: A multiplexed, synchronized active beam splitter or mirror and display providing a user or manufacturer with the ability to choose different modes of functionality of a transparent optical module.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Inventors: Igor Landau, Rick Morrison, Svetlana Samoilova
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Publication number: 20230033105Abstract: A transparent optical module system or device comprising an optical architecture hierarchy based on a patch unit. In aspects, the transparent optical module comprises a display sparsely populated with pixels. The patch unit comprises one or more regions of display pixels, or a pixel pattern(s), and an associated lenslet, for example on a microlens array. The lenslet is capable of transmitting display-emitted light to an eye of the wearer of the transparent optical module, which then focuses the light to form a retinal image, which is seen or perceived by the wearer. The patch units can be combined further into patch groups, wherein members of a group serve a similar role in retinal image production as a patch unit and/or lenslet. This hierarchy allows the system to be scaled to larger and more complex systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: Rick Morrison, Igor Landau, Svetlana Samoilova
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Publication number: 20220343606Abstract: A multiplexed, synchronized Active (micro) Lens(let) Array and display providing a user or manufacturer with the ability to choose different modes of functionality of a transparent optical module, such as three-dimensional virtual image generation, two-dimensional image generation, static MLA functionality, augmented, mixed, or enhanced reality, variations in brightness, and other modes.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2021Publication date: October 27, 2022Applicant: NewSight Reality, Inc.Inventors: Igor Landau, Rick Morrison, Svetlana Samoilova
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Patent number: 11454815Abstract: A transparent optical module system or device comprising an optical architecture hierarchy based on a patch unit. In aspects, the transparent optical module comprises a display sparsely populated with pixels. The patch unit comprises one or more regions of display pixels, or a pixel pattern(s), and an associated lenslet, for example on a microlens array. The lenslet is capable of transmitting display-emitted light to an eye of the wearer of the transparent optical module, which then focuses the light to form a retinal image, which is seen or perceived by the wearer. The patch units can be combined further into patch groups, wherein members of a group serve a similar role in retinal image production as a patch unit and/or lenslet. This hierarchy allows the system to be scaled to larger and more complex systems.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: NewSight Reality, Inc.Inventors: Rick Morrison, Igor Landau, Svetlana Samoilova
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Publication number: 20220291507Abstract: Systems and apparatus for managing stray light in augmented reality, mixed reality, enhanced reality, and similar applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: NewSight Reality, Inc.Inventors: Rick Morrison, Ronald Blum
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Publication number: 20210080730Abstract: A transparent optical module system or device comprising an optical architecture hierarchy based on a patch unit. In aspects, the transparent optical module comprises a display sparsely populated with pixels. The patch unit comprises one or more regions of display pixels, or a pixel pattern(s), and an associated lenslet, for example on a microlens array. The lenslet is capable of transmitting display-emitted light to an eye of the wearer of the transparent optical module, which then focuses the light to form a retinal image, which is seen or perceived by the wearer. The patch units can be combined further into patch groups, wherein members of a group serve a similar role in retinal image production as a patch unit and/or lenslet. This hierarchy allows the system to be scaled to larger and more complex systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2020Publication date: March 18, 2021Applicant: NewSight Reality, Inc.Inventors: Rick Morrison, Igor Landau, Svetlana Samoilova
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Patent number: 10901961Abstract: Systems and methods generating schemas that represent multiple data sources are provided herein. According to some embodiments, methods may include determining a schema for each of the multiple data sources via a computing device communicatively couplable with each of the multiple data sources, each of the multiple data sources including one or more data structures that define how data is stored in the data source, generating a negotiated schema by comparing the schemas of the multiple data sources to one another and interrelating data points of the multiple data sources based upon the schemas, interrelating the negotiated schema with the schema for each of the multiple data sources based upon the interrelation of the data points, and storing the negotiated schema in a storage media by way of the computing device.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2017Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: SAAMA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Rick Morrison, Matthew Saffer, Jud Gardner
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Publication number: 20200319458Abstract: A see-through transparent (or semi-transparent) near eye optical module includes a transparent sparsely populated near eye display comprising a plurality of pixels or pixel patches and a sparsely populated micro-lens array comprising a plurality of micro-lenses positioned in optical alignment with the plurality of pixels or pixel patches of the sparsely populated transparent near eye display. The sparsely populated transparent near eye display has a pixel fill factor capable of rendering the near eye display at least partially transparent. Light rays originating from outside the transparent sparsely populated near eye module pass through the transparent sparsely populated near eye display and sparsely populated micro-lens array of the transparent near eye module to an eye of a user to form a real image perceived by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Applicant: NewSight Reality, Inc.Inventors: Ronald Blum, Ami Gupta, Igor Landau, Rick Morrison, John Dorfman
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Publication number: 20200257122Abstract: According to embodiments of the invention, the invention is an augmented reality system that utilizes a near eye see-through optical module that comprises a transparent or semi-transparent see-through near eye display that is in optical alignment with a micro-lens array. According to certain embodiments of the invention, the augmented reality system comprises generating a virtual image as perceived by an eye of a wearer of the augmented reality system when looking at an object in space having a location in the real world that forms a real image. When utilizing a certain embodiment of the invention the virtual image changes, by way of example only, one or more of its shape, form, depth, 3D effect, location due to the eye or eyes shifting its (their) fixation position due to changing the location of different lighted pixels of the see-through near eye display(s).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2020Publication date: August 13, 2020Applicant: NewSight Reality, Inc.Inventors: Ronald Blum, Ami Gupta, Igor Landau, Rick Morrison
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Patent number: 10634921Abstract: According to embodiments of the invention, the invention is an augmented reality system that utilizes a near eye see-through optical module that comprises a transparent or semi-transparent see-through near eye display that is in optical alignment with a micro-lens array. According to certain embodiments of the invention, the augmented reality system comprises generating a virtual image as perceived by an eye of a wearer of the augmented reality system when looking at an object in space having a location in the real world that forms a real image. When utilizing a certain embodiment of the invention the virtual image changes, by way of example only, one or more of its shape, form, depth, 3D effect, location due to the eye or eyes shifting its (their) fixation position due to changing the location of different lighted pixels of the see-through near eye display(s).Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2019Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: NewSight Reality, Inc.Inventors: Ronald Blum, Ami Gupta, Igor Landau, Rick Morrison
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Patent number: 10634912Abstract: A see-through transparent (or semi-transparent) near eye optical module includes a transparent sparsely populated near eye display comprising a plurality of pixels or pixel patches and a sparsely populated micro-lens array comprising a plurality of micro-lenses positioned in optical alignment with the plurality of pixels or pixel patches of the sparsely populated transparent near eye display. The sparsely populated transparent near eye display has a pixel fill factor capable of rendering the near eye display at least partially transparent. Light rays originating from outside the transparent sparsely populated near eye module pass through the transparent sparsely populated near eye display and sparsely populated micro-lens array of the transparent near eye module to an eye of a user to form a real image perceived by the user.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2019Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: NewSight Reality, Inc.Inventors: Ronald Blum, Ami Gupta, Igor Landau, Rick Morrison, John Dorfman
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Publication number: 20190310481Abstract: According to embodiments of the invention, the invention is an augmented reality system that utilizes a near eye see-through optical module that comprises a transparent or semi-transparent see-through near eye display that is in optical alignment with a micro-lens array. According to certain embodiments of the invention, the augmented reality system comprises generating a virtual image as perceived by an eye of a wearer of the augmented reality system when looking at an object in space having a location in the real world that forms a real image. When utilizing a certain embodiment of the invention the virtual image changes, by way of example only, one or more of its shape, form, depth, 3D effect, location due to the eye or eyes shifting its (their) fixation position due to changing the location of different lighted pixels of the see-through near eye display(s).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2019Publication date: October 10, 2019Applicant: NewSight Reality, Inc.Inventors: Ronald Blum, Ami Gupta, Igor Landau, Rick Morrison
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Publication number: 20190265476Abstract: A see-through transparent (or semi-transparent) near eye optical module includes a transparent sparsely populated near eye display comprising a plurality of pixels or pixel patches and a sparsely populated micro-lens array comprising a plurality of micro-lenses positioned in optical alignment with the plurality of pixels or pixel patches of the sparsely populated transparent near eye display. The sparsely populated transparent near eye display has a pixel fill factor capable of rendering the near eye display at least partially transparent. Light rays originating from outside the transparent sparsely populated near eye module pass through the transparent sparsely populated near eye display and sparsely populated micro-lens array of the transparent near eye module to an eye of a user to form a real image perceived by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2019Publication date: August 29, 2019Applicant: NewSight Reality, Inc.Inventors: Ronald Blum, Ami Gupta, Igor Landau, Rick Morrison, John Dorfman
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Patent number: 10114879Abstract: Systems and methods for generating pluggable domain-specific data types are provided herein. According to some embodiments, methods for generating pluggable domain-specific data types may include determining a schema for the domain-specific data type, the schema including a data protocol that defines how data units are to be encoded into a domain-specific data unit, the domain-specific data unit including two or more data units received from one or more data sources, generating the domain-specific data type utilizing the determined schema, the domain-specific data type having a pluggable format such that the domain-specific data type may be utilized by a third-party application, and storing the domain-specific data type in a domain-specific data type library.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2017Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: Comprehend Systems, Inc.Inventors: Rick Morrison, Jud Gardner, Matthew Saffer
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Publication number: 20180018353Abstract: Systems and methods generating schemas that represent multiple data sources are provided herein. According to some embodiments, methods may include determining a schema for each of the multiple data sources via a computing device communicatively couplable with each of the multiple data sources, each of the multiple data sources including one or more data structures that define how data is stored in the data source, generating a negotiated schema by comparing the schemas of the multiple data sources to one another and interrelating data points of the multiple data sources based upon the schemas, interrelating the negotiated schema with the schema for each of the multiple data sources based upon the interrelation of the data points, and storing the negotiated schema in a storage media by way of the computing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2017Publication date: January 18, 2018Inventors: Rick Morrison, Matthew Saffer, Jud Gardner
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Patent number: 9811543Abstract: Systems and methods generating schemas that represent multiple data sources are provided herein. According to some embodiments, methods may include determining a schema for each of the multiple data sources via a computing device communicatively couplable with each of the multiple data sources, each of the multiple data sources including one or more data structures that define how data is stored in the data source, generating a negotiated schema by comparing the schemas of the multiple data sources to one another and interrelating data points of the multiple data sources based upon the schemas, interrelating the negotiated schema with the schema for each of the multiple data sources based upon the interrelation of the data points, and storing the negotiated schema in a storage media by way of the computing device.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2015Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Comprehend Systems, Inc.Inventors: Rick Morrison, Jud Gardner, Matthew Saffer
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Publication number: 20170249372Abstract: Systems and methods for generating pluggable domain-specific data types are provided herein. According to some embodiments, methods for generating pluggable domain-specific data types may include determining a schema for the domain-specific data type, the schema including a data protocol that defines how data units are to be encoded into a domain-specific data unit, the domain-specific data unit including two or more data units received from one or more data sources, generating the domain-specific data type utilizing the determined schema, the domain-specific data type having a pluggable format such that the domain-specific data type may be utilized by a third-party application, and storing the domain-specific data type in a domain-specific data type library.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2017Publication date: August 31, 2017Inventors: Rick Morrison, Jud Gardner, Matthew Saffer
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Patent number: 9607018Abstract: Systems and methods for generating pluggable domain-specific data types are provided herein. According to some embodiments, methods for generating pluggable domain-specific data types may include determining a schema for the domain-specific data type, the schema including a data protocol that defines how data units are to be encoded into a domain-specific data unit, the domain-specific data unit including two or more data units received from one or more data sources, generating the domain-specific data type utilizing the determined schema, the domain-specific data type having a pluggable format such that the domain-specific data type may be utilized by a third-party application, and storing the domain-specific data type in a domain-specific data type library.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2014Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: Comprehend Systems, Inc.Inventors: Rick Morrison, Jud Gardner, Matthew Saffer
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Publication number: 20150199389Abstract: Systems and methods generating schemas that represent multiple data sources are provided herein. According to some embodiments, methods may include determining a schema for each of the multiple data sources via a computing device communicatively couplable with each of the multiple data sources, each of the multiple data sources including one or more data structures that define how data is stored in the data source, generating a negotiated schema by comparing the schemas of the multiple data sources to one another and interrelating data points of the multiple data sources based upon the schemas, interrelating the negotiated schema with the schema for each of the multiple data sources based upon the interrelation of the data points, and storing the negotiated schema in a storage media by way of the computing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2015Publication date: July 16, 2015Inventors: Rick Morrison, Jud Gardner, Matthew Saffer
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Patent number: 9020981Abstract: Systems and methods generating schemas that represent multiple data sources are provided herein. According to some embodiments, methods may include determining a schema for each of the multiple data sources via a computing device communicatively couplable with each of the multiple data sources, each of the multiple data sources including one or more data structures that define how data is stored in the data source, generating a negotiated schema by comparing the schemas of the multiple data sources to one another and interrelating data points of the multiple data sources based upon the schemas, interrelating the negotiated schema with the schema for each of the multiple data sources based upon the interrelation of the data points, and storing the negotiated schema in a storage media by way of the computing device.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2011Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Comprehend Systems, Inc.Inventors: Rick Morrison, Jud Gardner, Matthew Saffer