Patents by Inventor Robert Dale

Robert Dale 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).

  • Systems and methods for virtually tagging objects viewed by friends and influencers
    Patent number: 10831267
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include (i) determining, using an eye-tracking system, an orientation of at least one eye of a user, (ii) identifying, based at least in part on the orientation of the user's eye, a point of interest within a field of view of the user, (iii) determining that the point of interest is a candidate for tagging, and (iv) performing, in response to determining that the point of interest is the candidate for tagging, a tagging action that facilitates tagging of the point of interest. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Andre Golard, Bo Asp Andersen, Immo Andreas Schuetz, Karol Constantine Hatzilias, Kelly Ingham, Martin Henrik Tall, Neeraj Choubey, Sharvil Shailesh Talati, Robert Dale Cavin, Thomas Scott Murdison
  • Eye tracking using optical coherence methods
    Patent number: 10832051
    Abstract: A system tracks eye movement using optical coherence in a head mounted display. The system includes an illumination source configured to project low coherence interference light onto a portion of a user's eye. The system includes a scanning system to select an axial position within the illuminated portion of the user's eye. The system includes a detector configured to collect light reflected from the illuminated portion of the user's eye at the selected axial position, and the reflected light includes measurement data characterizing the illuminated portion of the user's eye. The system includes a controller configured to compare the measurement data with a trained baseline, and determine an eye position based the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Daniel Trail, Robert Dale Cavin
  • Systems and methods for using eye tracking to improve user interactions with objects in artificial reality
    Patent number: 10831268
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include: identifying, using an eye-tracking system, an object within a scene viewed by a user; identifying, within a database of object interaction commands, a subset of commands that apply to the object viewed by the user; and presenting, to the user, the subset of commands that apply to the object. Various other methods, systems, devices, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Andre Golard, Bo Asp Andersen, Immo Andreas Schuetz, Karol Constantine Hatzilias, Kelly Ingham, Martin Henrik Tall, Neeraj Choubey, Thomas Scott Murdison, Sharvil Shailesh Talati, Robert Dale Cavin
  • Holographic in-field illuminator
    Patent number: 10816809
    Abstract: An eye-tracking system includes a holographic illuminator and a detector. The holographic illuminator includes a light source configured to provide light and a holographic medium optically coupled with the light source. The holographic medium is configured to receive the light provided from the light source and concurrently project a plurality of separate light patterns toward an eye. The detector is configured to detect a reflection of at least a subset of the plurality of separate light patterns, reflected off the eye, for determining a location of a pupil of the eye. Also disclosed is a method for determining a location of a pupil of an eye with the eye-tracking system that includes the holographic illuminator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ganghun Kim, Andrew Maimone, Alexander Jobe Fix, Robert Dale Cavin, Hee Yoon Lee, Matthieu Charles Raoul Leibovici, Brian Wheelwright, Douglas Robert Lanman
  • Measurement of data streams comprising data and pilot channels
    Patent number: 10797836
    Abstract: A method comprises receiving a data signal on a data channel and a pilot signal on a pilot channel, demodulating the received data signal and the received pilot signal to obtain a demodulated data signal and a demodulated pilot signal, generating a data stream by decoding the demodulated data signal, generating a feedback signal by encoding the data stream, and performing a measurement of a coherent sum signal comprising the coherent sum of (1) the demodulated pilot signal and (2) the product of the demodulated data signal and the feedback signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Robert Dale Thrasher
  • Locking Grounding Clamp
    Publication number: 20200295476
    Abstract: A grounding clamp includes a safety lock-out which locks the operation of the clamp in the absence of a cooperating hot-stick. The lock-out employs a clutch which prevents the translation of the clamping members relative to one another until the clutch is disengaged. The cooperating hot-stick is required for the disengagement of the clutch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Daniel Neil O'Connell, Phillip Howard Quaedvlieg, David Karl Wabnegger, Janos Csaba Toth, Ian Edward Trip, Ronald F. Howarth, Jolly Vincent Pangan Nepomuceno, Robert Dale Wicks
  • Full field retinal imaging system for characterization of eye trackers
    Patent number: 10761602
    Abstract: A retinal imaging system includes a projector, an imaging device, and a controller coupled to an eye tracking system under test. The projector emits a light pattern to be delivered to a pupil of an eye, a location of the pupil being estimated by the eye tracking system under test. The imaging device captures one or more images of a retina of the eye illuminated with at least a portion of the light pattern. The controller determines one or more eye tracking parameters based on the captured one or more images of the retina. The controller compares each determined eye tracking parameter with each of estimated one or more eye tracking parameters, wherein values for the one or more eye tracking parameters are estimated by the eye tracking system under test. The controller characterizes each estimated eye tracking parameter based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Robin Sharma, Nicholas Daniel Trail, Robert Dale Cavin, Kyle Justin Curts
  • Symmetrical facet Fresnel combiner
    Patent number: 10747009
    Abstract: An optical combiner for a head mounted display includes a refractive material having a refractive index and a Fresnel surface formed in the refractive material. The Fresnel surface includes a plurality of Fresnel features that include an active surface and a draft surface. An active surface angle supporting the active surface is substantially the same as a draft surface angle supporting the draft surface such that active surface and the draft surface are symmetrical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Robin Sharma, Karol Constantine Hatzilias, Qi Zhang, Andrew John Ouderkirk, Robert Dale Cavin, Ying Geng
  • Time of flight based eye tracker
    Patent number: 10747310
    Abstract: A time of flight (ToF) eye tracker includes an illumination source configured to emit pulses of light toward a pupil of an eye, wherein the pulses of light are retroreflected by a retina of the eye. The ToF eye tracker also includes a camera assembly configured to detect the retroreflected pulses of light. The ToF eye tracker also includes a controller configured to determine ToF information for one or more of the retroreflected pulses of light, and determine eye tracking information for the user's eye using the determined ToF information and a virtual eye model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Dale Cavin, Alexander Jobe Fix, Andrew John Ouderkirk
  • Caladium plant named 'Burst my Bubble'
    Publication number: 20200260628
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Caladium plant named ‘Burst My Bubble’, characterized by its intermediate to tall height; upright and mounding plant habit; dense and bushy appearance; vigorous growth habit; rapid growth rate; fancy-type leaves that are dark green flushed with dark greyed purple in color with lighter greyed purple-colored spots; and leaf petioles that are light greyed red in color with numerous dark brown-colored stippling and streaks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventor: Robert Dale Hartman
  • UNIVERSAL SUBSCRIPTION AND CRYPTOCURRENCY PAYMENT MANAGEMENT PLATFORMS AND METHODS OF USE
    Publication number: 20200258061
    Abstract: Universal blockchain and other management platforms and methods of use are provided herein. A blockchain subscription pay manager app is configured determine which users are associated with which merchants and which subscription plans by way of a blockchain subscription plan invoicing and payment processing capability which enables collection of user and merchant information, subscription plan set up and payment information and gives the user and merchant a “look and feel” of a universal centralized payment system despite interactions with the subscription smart contracts/wallets over the blockchain decentralized network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2019
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventor: Robert Dale Beadles
  • Caladium plant named 'CLOWNING AROUND'
    Publication number: 20200260626
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Caladium plant named ‘Clowning Around’, characterized by its intermediate to tall height; upright and mounding plant habit; dense and bushy appearance; vigorous growth habit and rapid growth rate; fancy-type leaves that have dark green-colored margins with greyed red, greyed purple and red-colored centers with random dark green-colored spots and blotches; and leaf petioles that are medium green flushed with greyed red in color with dark greenish brown-colored stippling, streaks and tessellations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventor: Robert Dale Hartman
  • Caladium plant named 'ICE 2319-293'
    Publication number: 20200260629
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Caladium plant named ‘ICE 2319-293’, characterized by its intermediate height; mounding habit; dense and bushy appearance; vigorous growth habit and rapid growth rate; lance-type leaves that are variegated with a mosaic of irregularly-shaped random sectors that are dark green, medium green, light green, yellow green, greyed green and white in color; and leaf petioles that are dark brown in color with light greyed orange tinged with green-colored stripes and streaks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventor: Robert Dale Hartman
  • Caladium plant named 'RFL BRZ OF13-1082'
    Publication number: 20200260627
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Caladium plant named ‘RFL BRZ OF13-1082’, characterized by its intermediate to tall height; upright and mounding plant habit; dense and bushy appearance; vigorous growth habit; rapid growth rate; fancy-type leaves that are mostly greyed red in color, randomly mottled with dark green flushed with greyed red-colored blotches and randomly dotted with light red-colored spots; and leaf petioles that are light greyed orange to light greyed red in color with numerous dark greenish brown-colored stippling and streaks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventor: ROBERT DALE HARTMAN
  • SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING A DISCHARGE POWER LIMIT VALUE AND A CHARGE POWER LIMIT VALUE OF A BATTERY CELL
    Publication number: 20200241074
    Abstract: A system for determining a discharge power limit value of a battery cell is provided. A microprocessor calculates an adjusted maximum allowed voltage drop value based on a maximum allowed voltage drop value, and an estimated delta OCV value at N seconds after a first time. The estimated delta OCV value is calculated based on a first discharge current level. The microprocessor calculates a second discharge current level through the battery cell for N seconds to obtain the adjusted maximum allowed voltage drop value. The microprocessor calculates a discharge power limit value based on the second discharge current level that indicates an amount of power from the battery cell for N seconds without the voltage across the battery cell falling below a minimum allowed voltage of the battery cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventor: Robert Dale Busser
  • Eye tracking system using dense structured light patterns
    Patent number: 10725537
    Abstract: An eye tracking system comprises a structured light emitter, a camera assembly, and a controller. The structured light emitter illuminates a portion of an eye of a user with a dense structured light pattern. The dense structured light pattern produces a distorted illumination pattern on the portion of the eye. The camera assembly captures one or more images of the distorted illumination pattern that is associated with the portion of the eye. The controller estimates a position of the eye based on the captured one or more images and a model of the eye. The eye tracking system may be part of a head-mounted display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Julian Iseringhausen, Robert Dale Cavin, Nicholas Daniel Trail, Douglas Robert Lanman
  • plant named ‘RFL BRZ OF13-1082’
    Patent number: PP32232
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Caladium plant named ‘RFL BRZ OF13-1082’, characterized by its intermediate to tall height; upright and mounding plant habit; dense and bushy appearance; vigorous growth habit; rapid growth rate; fancy-type leaves that are mostly greyed red in color, randomly mottled with dark green flushed with greyed red-colored blotches and randomly dotted with light red-colored spots; and leaf petioles that are light greyed orange to light greyed red in color with numerous dark greenish brown-colored stippling and streaks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Inventor: Robert Dale Hartman
  • plant named ‘ICE 2319-293’
    Patent number: PP32233
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Caladium plant named ‘ICE 2319-293’, characterized by its intermediate height; mounding habit; dense and bushy appearance; vigorous growth habit and rapid growth rate; lance-type leaves that are variegated with a mosaic of irregularly-shaped random sectors that are dark green, medium green, light green, yellow green, greyed green and white in color; and leaf petioles that are dark brown in color with light greyed orange tinged with green-colored stripes and streaks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Inventor: Robert Dale Hartman
  • plant named ‘Burst My Bubble’
    Patent number: PP32251
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Caladium plant named ‘Burst My Bubble’, characterized by its intermediate to tall height; upright and mounding plant habit; dense and bushy appearance; vigorous growth habit; rapid growth rate; fancy-type leaves that are dark green flushed with dark greyed purple in color with lighter greyed purple-colored spots; and leaf petioles that are light greyed red in color with numerous dark brown-colored stippling and streaks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Inventor: Robert Dale Hartman
  • plant named ‘Clowning Around’
    Patent number: PP32252
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Caladium plant named ‘Clowning Around’, characterized by its intermediate to tall height; upright and mounding plant habit; dense and bushy appearance; vigorous growth habit and rapid growth rate; fancy-type leaves that have dark green-colored margins with greyed red, greyed purple and red-colored centers with random dark green-colored spots and blotches; and leaf petioles that are medium green flushed with greyed red in color with dark greenish brown-colored stippling, streaks and tessellations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Inventor: Robert Dale Hartman