Patents by Inventor Robert Douglas Fritz, III

Robert Douglas Fritz, III 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: 11159763
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an image capture, curation, and editing system that includes a resource-efficient mobile image capture device that continuously captures images. In particular, the present disclosure provides low power frameworks for controlling image sensor mode in a mobile image capture device. On example low power frame work includes a scene analyzer that analyzes a scene depicted by a first image and, based at least in part on such analysis, causes an image sensor control signal to be provided to an image sensor to adjust at least one of the frame rate and the resolution of the image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Aaron Michael Donsbach, Benjamin Vanik, Jon Gabriel Clapper, Alison Lentz, Joshua Denali Lovejoy, Robert Douglas Fritz, III, Krzysztof Duleba, Li Zhang, Juston Payne, Emily Anne Fortuna, Iwona Bialynicka-Birula, Blaise Aguera-Arcas, Daniel Ramage, Benjamin James McMahan, Oliver Fritz Lange, Jess Holbrook
  • Publication number: 20200351466
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an image capture, curation, and editing system that includes a resource-efficient mobile image capture device that continuously captures images. In particular, the present disclosure provides low power frameworks for controlling image sensor mode in a mobile image capture device. On example low power frame work includes a scene analyzer that analyzes a scene depicted by a first image and, based at least in part on such analysis, causes an image sensor control signal to be provided to an image sensor to adjust at least one of the frame rate and the resolution of the image sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Inventors: Aaron Michael Donsbach, Benjamin Vanik, Jon Gabriel Clapper, Alison Lentz, Joshua Denali Lovejoy, Robert Douglas Fritz, III, Krzysztof Duleba, Li Zhang, Juston Payne, Emily Anne Fortuna, Iwona Bialynicka-Birula, Blaise Aguera-Arcas, Daniel Ramage, Benjamin James McMahan, Oliver Fritz Lange, Jess Holbrook
  • Patent number: 10728489
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an image capture, curation, and editing system that includes a resource-efficient mobile image capture device that continuously captures images. In particular, the present disclosure provides low power frameworks for controlling image sensor mode in a mobile image capture device. On example low power frame work includes a scene analyzer that analyzes a scene depicted by a first image and, based at least in part on such analysis, causes an image sensor control signal to be provided to an image sensor to adjust at least one of the frame rate and the resolution of the image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Aaron Michael Donsbach, Benjamin Vanik, Jon Gabriel Clapper, Alison Lentz, Joshua Denali Lovejoy, Robert Douglas Fritz, III, Krzysztof Duleba, Li Zhang, Juston Payne, Emily Anne Fortuna, Iwona Bialynicka-Birula, Blaise Aguera-Arcas, Daniel Ramage, Benjamin James McMahan, Oliver Fritz Lange, Jess Holbrook
  • Publication number: 20180367752
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an image capture, curation, and editing system that includes a resource-efficient mobile image capture device that continuously captures images. In particular, the present disclosure provides low power frameworks for controlling image sensor mode in a mobile image capture device. On example low power frame work includes a scene analyzer that analyzes a scene depicted by a first image and, based at least in part on such analysis, causes an image sensor control signal to be provided to an image sensor to adjust at least one of the frame rate and the resolution of the image sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Aaron Michael Donsbach, Benjamin Vanik, Jon Gabriel Clapper, Alison Lentz, Joshua Denali Lovejoy, Robert Douglas Fritz, III, Krzysztof Duleba, Li Zhang, Juston Payne, Emily Anne Fortuna, Iwona Bialynicka-Birula, Blaise Aguera-Arcas, Daniel Ramage, Benjamin James McMahan, Oliver Fritz Lange, Jess Holbrook
  • Patent number: 9836819
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an image capture, curation, and editing system that includes a resource-efficient mobile image capture device that continuously captures images. The mobile image capture device is operable to input an image into at least one neural network and to receive at least one descriptor of the desirability of a scene depicted by the image as an output of the at least one neural network. The mobile image capture device is operable to determine, based at least in part on the at least one descriptor of the desirability of the scene of the image, whether to store a second copy of such image and/or one or more contemporaneously captured images in a non-volatile memory of the mobile image capture device or to discard a first copy of such image from a temporary image buffer without storing the second copy of such image in the non-volatile memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Aaron Michael Donsbach, Benjamin Vanik, Jon Gabriel Clapper, Alison Lentz, Joshua Denali Lovejoy, Robert Douglas Fritz, III, Krzysztof Duleba, Li Zhang, Juston Payne, Emily Anne Fortuna, Iwona Bialynicka-Birula, Blaise Aguera-Arcas, Daniel Ramage, Hugh Brendan McMahan, Oliver Fritz Lange, Jess Holbrook
  • Patent number: 8626135
    Abstract: In general, techniques for using short range communication, such as near-field communication (NFC), to redirect the communication of a computing device to receive digital items selected at a kiosk may include receiving, by a computing device and from a kiosk computing device via a first communication pathway comprising short-range wireless communication, a device identifier associated with the kiosk computing device, wherein the kiosk computing device is operable to receive a selection of a digital item. The techniques may further include sending, by the computing device, a request for access to the digital item based at least in part on the device identifier associated with the kiosk computing device. The techniques may further include receiving, by the computing device via a second communication pathway, access to the digital item based at least in part on the device identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: William Noah Schilit, Roy Want, Robert Douglas Fritz, III