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).

  • Patent number: 10489648
    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: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Dale Cavin, Alexander Jobe Fix, Andrew John Ouderkirk
  • Publication number: 20190332691
    Abstract: Universal blockchain and other management platforms and methods of use are provided herein. An example method includes a registrar configured to register each of a plurality of second peers and generate a secret application programming interface (API) key for each registered second peer, the secret API key being unique for each of the registered second peers and linked to a first peer; a data vault configured to store the secret API keys for the registered second peers and data in a blockchain; and a communications interface configured to: receive a request for access to the data in the blockchain in the data vault; and admit or deny the request based on the secret API key received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventor: Robert Dale Beadles
  • Publication number: 20190334985
    Abstract: A network media delivery system includes client devices and a host device. Each client device has a network interface, an engine for processing media data, and a media interface. The host device, which can be a computer, establishes network communication links with the client devices, which can be networked media stations, and sends media data to the client devices. The media data can be sent wirelessly as packets of media data transmitted at intervals to each client device. In one embodiment, the host device controls processing of media data such that processed media is delivered in a synchronized manner at each of the client devices. In another embodiment, the host device controls processing of media data such that processed media is delivered in a synchronized manner at the host device and at least one client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bob Bradley, Robert Dale Newberry, JR.
  • Patent number: 10451799
    Abstract: An eyepiece waveguide for an augmented reality. The eyepiece waveguide can include a transparent substrate with an input coupler region, first and second orthogonal pupil expander (OPE) regions, and an exit pupil expander (EPE) region. The input coupler region can be positioned between the first and second OPE regions and can divide and re-direct an input light beam that is externally incident on the input coupler region into first and second guided light beams that propagate inside the substrate, with the first guided beam being directed toward the first OPE region and the second guided beam being directed toward the second OPE region. The first and second OPE regions can respectively divide the first and second guided beams into a plurality of replicated, spaced-apart beams. The EPE region can re-direct the replicated beams from both the first and second OPE regions such that they exit the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Anthony Klug, Robert Dale Tekolste, William Hudson Welch, Eric Browy, Victor Kai Liu, Samarth Bhargava
  • Patent number: 10452138
    Abstract: An eye tracker characterization system comprising a scanning retinal imaging unit and a controller. The scanning retinal imaging unit characterizes eye tracking information determined by an eye tracking unit under test. The scanning retinal imaging unit includes a scanning optics assembly and a detector. The scanning optics assembly scans light in a first band across a retinal region of an eye of a user. The detector detects the scanned light reflected from the retinal region. The controller selects eye tracking information received from the eye tracking unit under test and corresponding eye tracking parameters received from the scanning retinal imaging unit. The controller calculates differences between the selected eye tracking information and the corresponding selected eye tracking parameters, and characterizes the selected eye tracking information based on the calculated differences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Robin Sharma, Nicholas Daniel Trail, Robert Dale Cavin
  • Patent number: 10433683
    Abstract: A disposable toilet seat cover/sanitizer includes a base layer and a barrier layer adjacent thereto, the disposable toilet seat cover/sanitizer having at least at least one portion thereof treated with a detergent and/or a disinfectant, the at least one treated portion is generally centrally arranged and is surrounded by a non-treated portion, the treated and non-treated portions are delimited by a perforation, the treated portion being detachable from the disposable toilet seat cover/sanitizer, thereby creating a central opening in the untreated portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Inventors: Robert Dale Beadles, Sam Fant
  • Patent number: 10426338
    Abstract: A wearable eye tracking system includes a pair of looping coils in a Helmholtz configuration and an additional looping coil. In one configuration, areas enclosed by the pair of looping coils in the Helmholtz configuration are in parallel with each other, while an area enclosed by the additional looping coil is offset from (i.e., not parallel with) the areas enclosed by the pair of looping coils. In this configuration, the pair of looping coils generates uniform magnetic fields between the two areas of the pair of looping coils in a first direction orthogonal to the areas of the pair of looping coils, and the additional looping coil generates additional non-uniform (or divergent) magnetic fields in a second direction transversal to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Dale Cavin, Eric Michael Whitmire, Brian Michael Scally, Laura Cristina Trutoiu
  • Publication number: 20190293941
    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: June 11, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Ivan L. YEOH, Lionel Ernest EDWIN, Robert Dale TEKOLSTE
  • Patent number: 10417784
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to a head-mounted display including an eye tracking system. The eye tracking system includes a source assembly, a camera, and a controller. In some embodiments, the source assembly is a plurality of sources and are positioned to illuminate at least a peripheral area of a cornea of an eye. In some embodiments, the sources are masked to be a particular shape. The peripheral region is a location on the eye where the cornea transitions to the sclera. In some embodiments, the camera can detect a polarization of the reflected light, and uses polarization to disambiguate possible reflection locations. Similarly, time of flight may also be used to disambiguate potential reflection locations. The controller uses information from the detector to track positions of the user's eyes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Dale Cavin, Alexander Jobe Fix, Andrew John Ouderkirk
  • Publication number: 20190243142
    Abstract: Architectures are provided for selectively outputting light for forming images, the light having different wavelengths and being outputted with low levels of crosstalk. In some embodiments, light is incoupled into a waveguide and deflected to propagate in different directions, depending on wavelength. The incoupled light then outcoupled by outcoupling optical elements that outcouple light based on the direction of propagation of the light. In some other embodiments, color filters are between a waveguide and outcoupling elements. The color filters limit the wavelengths of light that interact with and are outcoupled by the outcoupling elements. In yet other embodiments, a different waveguide is provided for each range of wavelengths to be outputted. Incoupling optical elements selectively incouple light of the appropriate range of wavelengths into a corresponding waveguide, from which the light is outcoupled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventors: Robert Dale TeKolste, Michael Anthony Klug, Brian T. Schowengerdt
  • Publication number: 20190243141
    Abstract: Architectures are provided for selectively outputting light for forming images, the light having different wavelengths and being outputted with low levels of crosstalk. In some embodiments, light is incoupled into a waveguide and deflected to propagate in different directions, depending on wavelength. The incoupled light then outcoupled by outcoupling optical elements that outcouple light based on the direction of propagation of the light. In some other embodiments, color filters are between a waveguide and outcoupling elements. The color filters limit the wavelengths of light that interact with and are outcoupled by the outcoupling elements. In yet other embodiments, a different waveguide is provided for each range of wavelengths to be outputted. Incoupling optical elements selectively incouple light of the appropriate range of wavelengths into a corresponding waveguide, from which the light is outcoupled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventors: Robert Dale TeKolste, Michael Anthony Klug, Brian T. Schowengerdt
  • Patent number: 10359634
    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: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Ivan L. Yeoh, Lionel Ernest Edwin, Robert Dale Tekolste
  • Publication number: 20190223363
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Caladium plant named ‘Tickle Me Pink’, characterized by its intermediate height and upright and mounding plant habit; vigorous growth habit and rapid growth rate; lance-type leaves that have dark green-colored margins, rose red venation and interveinal areas that are green, tan green and rose red mosaic; petioles that are green or tan pink in color with darker-colored stippling and tessellations; and above average tolerance to wind.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2018
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventor: Robert Dale Hartman
  • Publication number: 20190223364
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Caladium plant named ‘Bold 'N Beautiful’, characterized by its intermediate height and upright mounded plant habit; vigorous growth habit and very rapid growth rate; lance-type leaves that have dark green-colored margins, transitional areas that are white and dark green mosaic, pinkish red-colored venation and the areas adjacent to the veins and interveinal areas that are pinkish red in color; with high light conditions, interveinal areas can be mostly white and/or greenish white variably tinged with purplish or pinkish red; and petioles that are blackish green in color with tan orange-colored stripes, streaks and tessellations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2018
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventor: Robert Dale Hartman
  • Publication number: 20190223362
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Caladium plant named ‘Bottle Rocket’, characterized by its intermediate to tall height and upright plant habit; vigorous growth habit and rapid growth rate; fancy-type leaves that have dark green-colored margins, transitional areas that are white, dark green and red purple, red purple-colored venation and the areas adjacent to the veins and interveinal areas that are white, red purple and green; petioles that are tan pink in color with a dark brown caste; and tolerance to high light conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2018
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventor: Robert Dale Hartman
  • Patent number: 10349261
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a networked media station providing a variety of features including a wireless network interface, a wired network interface, a peripheral interface, and a multimedia interface. The wireless network interface(s) allows the device to communicate to serve as a wireless base station or repeater and/or a bridge between a wireless and a wired network. The peripheral interface allows the device to communicate with a variety of peripherals, and, in conjunction with the network interface(s), allows sharing of a peripheral among multiple networked computers. The multimedia interface allows the device to be used with entertainment devices for streaming of multimedia information from a network connected computer to the entertainment device. Control of various aspects of the device is preferably controlled from a network connected computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Philip F. Kearney, III, Robert Dale Newberry, Jr., Jeffrey L. Robbin, David Heller, Christopher R. Wysocki, Stephen Anderson Davis
  • Publication number: 20190207729
    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: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2017
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventor: Robert Dale THRASHER
  • Patent number: PP30651
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Caladium plant named ‘Bottle Rocket’, characterized by its intermediate to tall height and upright plant habit; vigorous growth habit and rapid growth rate; fancy-type leaves that have dark green-colored margins, transitional areas that are white, dark green and red purple, red purple-colored venation and the areas adjacent to the veins and interveinal areas that are white, red purple and green; petioles that are tan pink in color with a dark brown caste; and tolerance to high light conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Inventor: Robert Dale Hartman
  • Patent number: PP30696
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Caladium plant named ‘Bold 'N Beautiful’, characterized by its intermediate height and upright mounded plant habit; vigorous growth habit and very rapid growth rate; lance-type leaves that have dark green-colored margins, transitional areas that are white and dark green mosaic, pinkish red-colored venation and the areas adjacent to the veins and interveinal areas that are pinkish red in color; with high light conditions, interveinal areas can be mostly white and/or greenish white variably tinged with purplish or pinkish red; and petioles that are blackish green in color with tan orange-colored stripes, streaks and tessellations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Inventor: Robert Dale Hartman
  • Patent number: PP31061
    Abstract: A new and distinct cultivar of Caladium plant named ‘Tickle Me Pink’, characterized by its intermediate height and upright and mounding plant habit; vigorous growth habit and rapid growth rate; lance-type leaves that have dark green-colored margins, rose red venation and interveinal areas that are green, tan green and rose red mosaic; petioles that are green or tan pink in color with darker-colored stippling and tessellations; and above average tolerance to wind.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Inventor: Robert Dale Hartman