Patents by Inventor Robert Hildreth

Robert Hildreth 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: 11346930
    Abstract: An object having an outer surface (e.g. a friction-ridge surface of a finger) and internal parts (e.g. tissue layer, papillae, blood vessels, fat, muscle, nail and bone) is scanned by a system having a transmitter, receiver and computer. One such system has a substantially planar piezoelectric transmit-layer, an ultrasonic receiver array having a plurality of receivers, and a platen. The transmit layer is caused to produce an ultrasound plane-wave traveling toward the object residing on the platen. Using the ultrasonic receiver, ultrasonic energy that has been reflected from the object is detected. The detected ultrasonic energy is analyzed to provide an analysis result, and the analysis result is compared to a template. A determination is made as to whether the analysis result and the template are similar, and the object is declared to be alive if the analysis result is determined to be similar to the template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jack Conway Kitchens, II, John Keith Schneider, Stephen Michael Gojevic, Timothy Dickinson, Philip John Schneider, Evan Breloff, Evan Robert Hildreth
  • Patent number: 10860734
    Abstract: A wide-area network (“WAN”)-based service enables remote data access transactions between participating endpoints within a group of participating endpoints that includes at least one server and at least one portable electronic device. Each participating endpoint is configured for communication via one or more communication networks and stores the same or different data items on behalf of a user. The WAN-based service maintains information about each participating endpoint in the group and its network accessibility, and also maintains one or more catalogs of available data items. The WAN-based service identifies a communication network available to both participating endpoints, and a direct or proxied communication session is established between the portable electronic device and the other participating endpoint via the communication network. Selected data items are downloaded, uploaded, accessed or synchronized via the communication session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Hildreth, Darren R. Davis, Ryan A. Haveson
  • Patent number: 10665019
    Abstract: A method for use with a head-mounted display in a physical environment includes obtaining depth information of the physical environment and capturing a visual image of the physical environment. The method also includes determining a spatial relationship between a user of the head-mounted display and one or more physical objects included in the physical environment based on the depth information. The visual image is then segmented based on the spatial relationship to generate a segmented image that includes the one or more physical objects. The segmented image is then overlaid on a virtual image to display both the virtual image and the one or more physical objects on the head-mounted display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Evan Robert Hildreth, Francis Bernard MacDougall
  • Publication number: 20190361104
    Abstract: An object having an outer surface (e.g. a friction-ridge surface of a finger) and internal parts (e.g. tissue layer, papillae, blood vessels, fat, muscle, nail and bone) is scanned by a system having a transmitter, receiver and computer. One such system has a substantially planar piezoelectric transmit-layer, an ultrasonic receiver array having a plurality of receivers, and a platen. The transmit layer is caused to produce an ultrasound plane-wave traveling toward the object residing on the platen. Using the ultrasonic receiver, ultrasonic energy that has been reflected from the object is detected. The detected ultrasonic energy is analyzed to provide an analysis result, and the analysis result is compared to a template. A determination is made as to whether the analysis result and the template are similar, and the object is declared to be alive if the analysis result is determined to be similar to the template.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Jack KITCHENS, John Keith SCHNEIDER, Stephen Michael GOJEVIC, Timothy Alan DICKINSON, Philip John SCHNEIDER, Evan Michael BRELOFF, Evan Robert HILDRETH
  • Patent number: 10444335
    Abstract: Methods and systems of determining whether an object is alive, and therefore part of a live individual, are described. An object having an outer surface (e.g. a friction-ridge surface of a finger) and internal parts (e.g. tissue layer, papillae, blood vessels, fat, muscle, nail and bone) is scanned by a system having a transmitter, receiver and computer. One such system has a substantially planar piezoelectric transmit-layer, an ultrasonic receiver array having a plurality of receivers, and a platen. The transmit layer is caused to produce an ultrasound plane-wave traveling toward the object residing on the platen. Using the ultrasonic receiver, ultrasonic energy that has been reflected from the object is detected. The detected ultrasonic energy is analyzed to provide an analysis result, and the analysis result is compared to a template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jack Conway Kitchens, II, John Keith Schneider, Stephen Michael Gojevic, Timothy Alan Dickinson, Philip John Schneider, Evan Michael Breloff, Evan Robert Hildreth
  • Publication number: 20180137298
    Abstract: A wide-area network (“WAN”)-based service enables remote data access transactions between participating endpoints within a group of participating endpoints that includes at least one server and at least one portable electronic device. Each participating endpoint is configured for communication via one or more communication networks and stores the same or different data items on behalf of a user. The WAN-based service maintains information about each participating endpoint in the group and its network accessibility, and also maintains one or more catalogs of available data items. The WAN-based service identifies a communication network available to both participating endpoints, and a direct or proxied communication session is established between the portable electronic device and the other participating endpoint via the communication network. Selected data items are downloaded, uploaded, accessed or synchronized via the communication session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventors: Robert Hildreth, Darren R. Davis, Ryan A. Haveson
  • Patent number: 9824230
    Abstract: A wide-area network (“WAN”)-based service enables remote data access transactions between participating endpoints within a group of participating endpoints that includes at least one server and at least one portable electronic device. Each participating endpoint is configured for communication via one or more communication networks and stores the same or different data items on behalf of a user. The WAN-based service maintains information about each participating endpoint in the group and its network accessibility, and also maintains one or more catalogs of available data items. The WAN-based service identifies a communication network available to both participating endpoints, and a direct or proxied communication session is established between the portable electronic device and the other participating endpoint via the communication network. Selected data items are downloaded, uploaded, accessed or synchronized via the communication session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Hildreth, Darren R. Davis, Ryan A. Haveson
  • Publication number: 20170285157
    Abstract: Methods and systems of determining whether an object is alive, and therefore part of a live individual, are described. An object having an outer surface (e.g. a friction-ridge surface of a finger) and internal parts (e.g. tissue layer, papillae, blood vessels, fat, muscle, nail and bone) is scanned by a system having a transmitter, receiver and computer. One such system has a substantially planar piezoelectric transmit-layer, an ultrasonic receiver array having a plurality of receivers, and a platen. The transmit layer is caused to produce an ultrasound plane-wave traveling toward the object residing on the platen. Using the ultrasonic receiver, ultrasonic energy that has been reflected from the object is detected. The detected ultrasonic energy is analyzed to provide an analysis result, and the analysis result is compared to a template.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Inventors: Jack Conway Kitchens, II, John Keith Schneider, Stephen Michael Gojevic, Timothy Alan Dickinson, Philip John Schneider, Evan Michael Breloff, Evan Robert Hildreth
  • Publication number: 20170278304
    Abstract: A method for use with a head-mounted display in a physical environment includes obtaining depth information of the physical environment and capturing a visual image of the physical environment. The method also includes determining a spatial relationship between a user of the head-mounted display and one or more physical objects included in the physical environment based on the depth information. The visual image is then segmented based on the spatial relationship to generate a segmented image that includes the one or more physical objects. The segmented image is then overlaid on a virtual image to display both the virtual image and the one or more physical objects on the head-mounted display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventors: Evan Robert HILDRETH, Francis Bernard MACDOUGALL
  • Patent number: 9726755
    Abstract: Methods and systems of determining whether an object is alive, and therefore part of a live individual, are described. An object having an outer surface (e.g. a friction-ridge surface of a finger) and internal parts (e.g. tissue layer, papillae, blood vessels, fat, muscle, nail and bone) is scanned by a system having a transmitter, receiver and computer. One such system has a substantially planar piezoelectric transmit-layer, an ultrasonic receiver array having a plurality of receivers, and a platen. The transmit layer is caused to produce an ultrasound plane-wave traveling toward the object residing on the platen. Using the ultrasonic receiver, ultrasonic energy that has been reflected from the object is detected. The detected ultrasonic energy is analyzed to provide an analysis result, and the analysis result is compared to a template.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jack Conway Kitchens, II, John Keith Schneider, Stephen Michael Gojevic, Timothy Alan Dickinson, Philip John Schneider, Evan Breloff, Evan Robert Hildreth
  • Patent number: 9665157
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining a battery-level of an electronic device and conserving the battery charge of the electronic device are disclosed. The battery consumption of an electronic device may be reduced when the user or the device learns via user input or determines via prediction that the battery will be depleted before the next possible charge cycle. Reducing battery consumption could be accomplished by accessing an application requiring less power consumption and/or delaying post-processing of sensor data related to that application, for example a camera application. Prediction of battery life could include determining the time to the next expected battery charge and delaying the processing of sensor data until the electronic device is plugged in and charging or has reached a predetermined charge level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Terence William Hampson, Evan Robert Hildreth, Babak Forutanpour
  • Publication number: 20170082740
    Abstract: Methods and systems of determining whether an object is alive, and therefore part of a live individual, are described. An object having an outer surface (e.g. a friction-ridge surface of a finger) and internal parts (e.g. tissue layer, papillae, blood vessels, fat, muscle, nail and bone) is scanned by a system having a transmitter, receiver and computer. One such system has a substantially planar piezoelectric transmit-layer, an ultrasonic receiver array having a plurality of receivers, and a platen. The transmit layer is caused to produce an ultrasound plane-wave traveling toward the object residing on the platen. Using the ultrasonic receiver, ultrasonic energy that has been reflected from the object is detected. The detected ultrasonic energy is analyzed to provide an analysis result, and the analysis result is compared to a template.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2015
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: Jack Conway Kitchens, II, John Keith Schneider, Stephen Michael Gojevic, Timothy Alan Dickinson, Phillip John Schneider, Evan Breloff, Evan Robert Hildreth
  • Patent number: 9529439
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to multi device pairing and sharing via non-touch gestures. In an embodiment, a method comprises detecting, by a parent device, an initiating non-touch gesture performed by a user towards the parent device. The method also comprises initiating an action based on the detecting. The method further comprises triggering, by the parent device, a gesture recognition mode on one or more secondary devices based on the detecting. And the method further comprises completing the action upon a positive gesture recognition by the one or more secondary devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Shaun W. Van Dyken, Phuong L. Ton, Suzana Arellano, Evan Robert Hildreth, Joel Bernarte, Guy Perry, Kirk S. Taylor
  • Patent number: 9466266
    Abstract: Various arrangements for defining a marker are presented. A first defined marker presented by a public display device may be determined to be insufficient for use by a head mounted display. The first defined marker may be used as a reference point for positioning information for display by the head mounted display. In response to determining that the first defined marker is insufficient, a second marker displayed by the public display device may be defined. The second marker may have a display characteristic different from the first defined marker. The second defined marker may then be used as the reference point for positioning the information for display by the head mounted display. An indication of the second marker may be transmitted to the head mounted display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Evan Robert Hildreth, Babak Forutanpour, Phuong Lam Ton
  • Patent number: 9412012
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus and methods for determining a gesture are presented. According to some aspects, disclosed are systems, apparatus and methods for determining a gesture that compares different images and deduces a direction and/or distance based on a relative size change of a palm in the different images. After a reference palm size is registered, subsequent palm sizes are compared to the reference to determine if and/or how much the hand is moving. The hand gesture is determined based on these relative changes in hand movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Francis Bernard MacDougall, Shaun William Van Dyken, Evan Robert Hildreth
  • Publication number: 20150381614
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for biometric based media data sharing. The method may include initiating, in a first device, biometric data capture of a user based, at least in part, on playback of media data by the first device. The method may also include determining that captured biometric data of the user does not correspond with biometric data associated with an authorized user of the first device. Furthermore, the method may also include in response to a failure to match the captured biometric data by the first device, establishing that the user is an authorized user of a second device based, at least in part, on the captured biometric data. The method may also include sharing the media data with the second device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2014
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Inventors: Evan Robert Hildreth, Jonathan Karl Kies, Robert Scott Tartz, Joel Simbulan Bernarte, Xin Zhong, Virginia Walker Keating
  • Publication number: 20150293575
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining a battery-level of an electronic device and conserving the battery charge of the electronic device are disclosed. The battery consumption of an electronic device may be reduced when the user or the device learns via user input or determines via prediction that the battery will be depleted before the next possible charge cycle. Reducing battery consumption could be accomplished by accessing an application requiring less power consumption and/or delaying post-processing of sensor data related to that application, for example a camera application. Prediction of battery life could include determining the time to the next expected battery charge and delaying the processing of sensor data until the electronic device is plugged in and charging or has reached a predetermined charge level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2014
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Terence William Hampson, Evan Robert Hildreth, Babak Forutanpour
  • Publication number: 20150104075
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus and methods for determining a gesture are presented. According to some aspects, disclosed are systems, apparatus and methods for determining a gesture that compares different images and deduces a direction and/or distance based on a relative size change of a palm in the different images. After a reference palm size is registered, subsequent palm sizes are compared to the reference to determine if and/or how much the hand is moving. The hand gesture is determined based on these relative changes in hand movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventors: Francis Bernard MacDougall, Shaun William Van Dyken, Evan Robert Hildreth
  • Publication number: 20150062159
    Abstract: Various arrangements for defining a marker are presented. A first defined marker presented by a public display device may be determined to be insufficient for use by a head mounted display. The first defined marker may be used as a reference point for positioning information for display by the head mounted display. In response to determining that the first defined marker is insufficient, a second marker displayed by the public display device may be defined. The second marker may have a display characteristic different from the first defined marker. The second defined marker may then be used as the reference point for positioning the information for display by the head mounted display. An indication of the second marker may be transmitted to the head mounted display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Evan Robert Hildreth, Babak Forutanpour, Phuong Lam Ton
  • Publication number: 20150062158
    Abstract: Various arrangements for presenting private information are presented. Private information to be displayed via a head mounted display to a user may be identified. A marker displayed by a public display device may also be identified. This public display device may be visible in a vicinity of the user. The private information and an indication of the marker may be output to the head-mounted display of the user, such that the private information is displayed by the head-mounted display in relation to the marker displayed by the public display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Evan Robert Hildreth, Babak Forutanpour, Phuong Lam Ton