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).

  • COMBINED FUNCTION JOYSTICK FOR DRILLING MACHINE AND RELATED METHOD
    Publication number: 20200081478
    Abstract: An apparatus for drilling with a drilling machine including a boom for supporting a drill and a feed for feeding the drill. A single joystick is adapted for controlling the movement of the boom and the feed independently or together, such as according to different protocols (e.g., for causing movement of the boom and feed in the same direction, or in different directions). Related methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: Craig Matthew Collins, Robert Dale Groves, JR.
  • BEAM ANGLE SENSOR IN VIRTUAL/AUGMENTED REALITY SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20200081258
    Abstract: A virtual image generation system for use by an end user comprises a projection subsystem configured for generating a collimated light beam, and a display configured emitting light rays in response to the collimated light beam to display a pixel of an image frame to the end user. The pixel has a location encoded with angles of the emitted light rays. The virtual image generation system further comprises a sensing assembly configured for sensing at least one parameter indicative of at least one of the emitted light ray angles, and a control subsystem configured for generating image data defining a location of the pixel, and controlling an angle of the light beam relative to the display based on the defined location of the pixel and the sensed parameter(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Applicant: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Ivan L. YEOH, Lionel Ernest EDWIN, Robert Dale TEKOLSTE
  • Patterned optical filter for eye tracking
    Patent number: 10585477
    Abstract: An eyewear device has an optical element, a patterned optical filter, and a camera. The optical element receives light that includes light in a visible band and light in an infrared (IR) band. The patterned optical filter is disposed on the optical element and has a filtering portion and a plurality of non-filtering portions. The filtering portion is transmissive to light in the visible band and filtering of light in the IR band. The non-filtering portions are transmissive to light in the visible band and transmissive to light in the IR band. Some portion of the received light in the IR band passes through the non-filtering portions and illuminates a portion of an eye of a user with a pattern. The camera captures images of the portion of the eye that is illuminated with the pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Dale Cavin, Alexander Jobe Fix, Andrew John Ouderkirk, Qi Zhang, Robin Sharma, Brian Wheelwright
  • Method, Apparatus, And Computer Program Product For User-Directed Reporting
    Publication number: 20200050675
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed herein for user-directed reporting. In the context of a method, context information is received, wherein the context information defines the data set from which a natural language text or a graph is to be derived. The method further includes generating a set of messages based on the context information. The method further includes generating, by a processor, a context-specific report based on the set of messages and the relationship between them, wherein the context-specific report is configured to linguistically or visually express at least of messages. The method may include generating additional messages or annotations interactively. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Gowri Somayajulu Sripada, Robert Dale, Mario Feegrade, Daniel da Silva de Paiva
  • EYE TRACKING USING TIME MULTIPLEXING
    Publication number: 20200050851
    Abstract: A head mounted display (HMD) comprises an eye tracking system configured to enable eye-tracking using light. The eye tracking system implements time-multiplexing by configuring a source assembly comprising a plurality of light sources to project at least a first light pattern towards the user's eye over a first time period, and a second light pattern towards the user's eye over a second time period in accordance with a set of emission instructions. A camera assembly is configured to capture images of the user's eye during the first and second time periods in accordance with a set of imaging instructions, the captured images containing one or more glints corresponding to reflections of the first or second light patterns on the cornea of the user's eye. The location of the glints may be used to determine a shape or orientation of the eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Robert Dale Cavin, Alexander Jobe Fix, Andrew John Ouderkirk
  • Methods and Apparatus for Manufacturing and Printing Hollow Spheres
    Publication number: 20200023570
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for forming and printing hollow bodies from amorphous materials to form three-dimensional objects are provided. Apparatus provide a hollow body forming and printing machine, and methods for determining a desired amount of impact deformation for the hollow spheres, including calculating specific characteristics of the hollow spheres and the amorphous material, deriving a target viscosity range, adjusting the apparatus to satisfy the target viscosity range, and using the apparatus to form a plurality of hollow spheres with controlled deformation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Aaron Wiest, Rebecca Stevens, Robert Dale Conner, Craig MacDougall, Sam Pratt
  • Method And Apparatus For Interactive Reports
    Publication number: 20200019592
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus and computer program products for interactive reports are disclosed herein. In some examples, a method for generating an output report that is an interactive report may include identifying one or more messages to be hyperlinked in an output report, wherein the one or more messages are data structures that are configured to linguistically describe at least a portion of raw input data; determining one or more interactive responses based on the one or more messages to be hyperlinked; determining one or more words in a phrase specification that are related to the one or more messages to be hyperlinked; and generating the output report, wherein the one or more words are hyperlinked in the output report such that when selected at least one of the one or more interactive responses is performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: Robert Dale, Mario Feegrade, Neil Burnett, William Anthony Bradshaw
  • EYEPIECE FOR VIRTUAL, AUGMENTED, OR MIXED REALITY SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20200012044
    Abstract: An eyepiece waveguide for an augmented reality. The eyepiece waveguide can include a transparent substrate with an input coupler region, a first orthogonal pupil expander (OPE) region, and an exit pupil expander (EPE) region. The input coupler region can couple an input light beam that is externally incident on the input coupler region into at least a first guided light beam that propagates inside the substrate. The first OPE region can divide the first guided beam into a plurality of replicated, spaced-apart beams. The EPE region can re-direct the replicated beams from the first OPE region such that they exit the substrate. The EPE region can have an amount of optical power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Anthony Klug, Robert Dale Tekolste, William Hudson Welch, Eric Browy, Victor Kai Liu, Samarth Bhargava
  • Fast resume from hibernate
    Patent number: 10528116
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for implementing fast resume from hibernate are disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus can include a data storage device having a circuit configured to determine a first memory location of hibernation data without receiving an indication of the first memory location from the host, and store the hibernation data to a second memory location of the DSD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Robert Dale Murphy, Robert William Dixon
  • Outlet safety cover
    Patent number: 10522936
    Abstract: An electrical outlet safety cover consisting of a cover plate and removable caps to cover and prevent access by children to underlying electrical outlet. The cover plate replaces a standard electrical cover plate on an electrical outlet and fastens to the electrical outlet with an attachment screw in the center of the safety cover. The rear side of the cover plate is provided with slot housings on the top sides and bottom on each electrical socket access opening into which legs, provided on the child-proof safety caps, insert as a means of fastening or removing the caps over the electrical outlet. A slot housing surrounds each slot to prevent the legs on the safety cap from inserting too far inward when inserting or removing the caps from the cover plate. The caps are sufficiently large to cover the attachment screw and to prevent choking by a child.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Inventor: Robert Dale Martin
  • Beam angle sensor in virtual/augmented reality system
    Patent number: 10520737
    Abstract: A virtual image generation system for use by an end user comprises a projection subsystem configured for generating a collimated light beam, and a display configured emitting light rays in response to the collimated light beam to display a pixel of an image frame to the end user. The pixel has a location encoded with angles of the emitted light rays. The virtual image generation system further comprises a sensing assembly configured for sensing at least one parameter indicative of at least one of the emitted light ray angles, and a control subsystem configured for generating image data defining a location of the pixel, and controlling an angle of the light beam relative to the display based on the defined location of the pixel and the sensed parameter(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Ivan L. Yeoh, Lionel Ernest Edwin, Robert Dale Tekolste
  • Selection and use of different wireless networks by meter reading devices
    Patent number: 10506653
    Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a meter interface device may attempt to join a third party wireless network, in addition to a mobile transceiver network, in response to a power-up procedure or a reset procedure. Additionally, the meter interface device may simultaneously operate in multiple modes of communications. The meter interface device may select the third party wireless network based on preference information and back-off information. The meter interface device may wait a back-off period, after an unsuccessful attempt to join the third party wireless network, before re-attempting to join the third party wireless network. The meter interface device may also attach to one or multiple other networks including a fixed network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: NEPTUNE TECHNOLOGY GROUP INC.
    Inventors: Charles P. Brunson, IV, Gloice Dean Works, III, Robert Dale Reed
  • SELECTION AND USE OF DIFFERENT WIRELESS NETWORKS BY METER READING DEVICES
    Publication number: 20190373659
    Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a meter interface device may attempt to join a third party wireless network, in addition to a mobile transceiver network, in response to a power-up procedure or a reset procedure. Additionally, the meter interface device may simultaneously operate in multiple modes of communications. The meter interface device may select the third party wireless network based on preference information and back-off information. The meter interface device may wait a back-off period, after an unsuccessful attempt to join the third party wireless network, before re-attempting to join the third party wireless network. The meter interface device may also attach to one or multiple other networks including a fixed network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Charles P. Brunson, IV, Gloice Dean Works, III, Robert Dale Reed
  • EYE TRACKING FOR PUPIL STEERING IN HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAYS USING EYE TRACKING SENSORS
    Publication number: 20190361250
    Abstract: A method for providing augmented reality contents to a wearer using a head-mounted display device that includes an eye tracking sensor, a light projector, a beam steerer, and a combiner includes determining, with the eye tracking sensor, a position of a pupil of an eye of the wearer. The method also includes projecting, with the light projector, light for rendering images based at least on the augmented reality contents, and changing, with the beam steerer, a direction of the light from the light projector based on the position of the pupil. The light from the beam steerer is directed toward the combiner and the light from the beam steerer and light from an outside of the head-mounted display device are combined, by the combiner, to provide an overlap of a rendered image and a real image that corresponds to the light from the outside of the head-mounted display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Douglas Robert LANMAN, Robert KONRAD, Robert Dale CAVIN
  • Locking Grounding Clamp
    Publication number: 20190363462
    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: May 6, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    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
  • plant named ‘BLZ 158-14’
    Patent number: PP31252
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Caladium plant named ‘BLZ 158-14’, characterized by its intermediate height; upright and mounding plant habit; dense and bushy appearance; vigorous growth habit and rapid growth rate; fancy-type leaves that are dark green flushed with greyed purple in color with red purple-colored centers and venation; and petioles that are light red to greyed red in color with darker greyed red streaks and stripes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Inventor: Robert Dale Hartman
  • plant named ‘RSL 2321-469’
    Patent number: PP31276
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Caladium plant named ‘RSL 2321-469’, characterized by its intermediate height; upright and mounding plant habit; dense and bushy appearance; vigorous growth habit and rapid growth rate; lance-type leaves that are light green variably flushed with greyed red in color; and petioles that are greyed green in color with darker-colored tessellations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Inventor: Robert Dale Hartman
  • plant named ‘WWG 2320-373’
    Patent number: PP31277
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Caladium plant named ‘WWG 2320-373’, characterized by its short to intermediate height; upright and mounding plant habit; dense and bushy appearance; vigorous growth habit and rapid growth rate; lance-type leaves that are medium to dark green in color with bright white-colored centers and light green-colored venation; and petioles that are medium green in color with darker-colored stipples, streaks and tessellations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Inventor: Robert Dale Hartman
  • plant named ‘KAT 011-118’
    Patent number: PP31310
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Caladium plant named ‘KAT 011-118’, characterized by its intermediate height; upright and mounding plant habit; dense and bushy appearance; vigorous growth habit and rapid growth rate; fancy-type leaves that are dark green in color with bright red-colored centers and venation that resist fading; and petioles that are dark brown in color with greenish greyed orange-colored streaks and greenish brown stipples, streaks and tessellations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Inventor: Robert Dale Hartman
  • plant named ‘ZRD 2318-183’
    Patent number: PP31569
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Caladium plant named ‘ZRD 2318-183’, characterized by its intermediate to tall height; mounding habit; dense and bushy appearance; vigorous growth habit and rapid growth rate; fancy-type leaves that are dark green in color with bright white-colored venation surrounded with bright white-colored areas and interveinal areas that are bright white and greyed green in color with white-colored flecks, speckles, blotches and streaks; and leaf petioles that are black in color with green and white-colored stripes, stipples and streaks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Inventor: Robert Dale Hartman