Patents by Inventor Robert Paul Martin

Robert Paul Martin 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).

  • Publication number: 20240012470
    Abstract: In an example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a head mounted display (HMD) system which comprises an HMD positioned on an upper portion of a face of a wearer. The HMD system further comprises a facial gesture mask coupled to the HMD and positioned on a lower portion of the face of the wearer and comprising at least one light source and at least one camera to capture image data of the wearer. The HMD system also includes a processor to process the captured image data of the wearer to identify a gesture of the wearer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Robert Paul Martin
  • Publication number: 20230408830
    Abstract: A head mounted display assembly is provided. The head mounted display assembly comprises a head supported structural frame to support a display viewable by a user of the assembly, the structural frame including upper and lower surfaces. The assembly comprises a mounting interface on the lower surface of the structural frame, the mounting interface for releasably coupling an accessory device to the assembly. The mounting interface comprises a magnetic portion for attracting an opposing magnetic portion of the accessory device upon alignment of the accessory device with the mounting interface, and for repelling the magnetic portion of the accessory device upon misalignment of the accessory device with the mounting interface, and a communication interface for communicating data with the accessory device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Robert Paul Martin, Mark Allen Lessman, Joseph Nouri, Owen Thomas Richard
  • Publication number: 20230408809
    Abstract: A wearable apparatus for sensing movement of a wearer's body is disclosed. The wearable apparatus comprises a flexible substrate for conforming about the wearer's body, and a capacitive sensor attached to the flexible substrate, the capacitive sensor comprising a transmitter electrode and a receiver electrode arranged in opposition on opposite sides of the flexible substrate, the transmitter electrode being arranged to capacitively couple to the receiver electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Robert Paul Martin, Fred Charles Thomas, III
  • Publication number: 20230316692
    Abstract: In an example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, an electronic device comprises a display which comprises a head-mountable display (HMD) comprises a reflective surface coupled to a face plate of the HMD. The HMD comprises a light source to project light toward the reflective surface, wherein the projected light is reflected onto a wearer of the HMD by the reflective surface. The HMD also comprises a camera to capture an image of the wearer as reflected by the projected light from the reflective surface and a processor to identify a gesture of the wearer within the captured image of the wearer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Robert Paul Martin
  • Publication number: 20230214025
    Abstract: In some examples, a machine-readable medium can store instructions executable by a processing resource to designate a first field of view of a first sensor of a head-mounted display as an active area, designate a second field of view of a second sensor of the head-mounted display as a gesture area, detect, when present, a gesture in the gesture area and cause an effect of the gesture to occur responsive to detection of the gesture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Mark Allen Lessman, Robert Paul Martin
  • Publication number: 20230206533
    Abstract: Examples of a method for emotive avatar animation are described. Some examples of the method may include combining first user pose data captured by an external camera with second user pose data captured by a head-mounted display (HMD). Some examples of the method may include animating an emotive avatar based on the combined user pose data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Robert Paul Martin, Mark A. Lessman
  • Patent number: 11676357
    Abstract: Structured light is projected onto an object, and an image of the object as illuminated by the projected structured light is captured. Reference object points are identified within the captured image, and the structured light projected onto the object is modified based on the identified reference object points. An additional image of the object as illuminated by the modified projected structured light is captured, and additional reference object points are identified within the captured additional image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Joseph Nouri, Robert Paul Martin, Mark Lessman, Tsung-Nung Huang
  • Publication number: 20230066862
    Abstract: An example charge system may include a human interface device (HID) and a base station. An example HID may include a body member, an elliptical member, a rechargeable power supply, device circuitry, and a charge device embedded within the elliptical member. An example base station may include a housing having a raised, elliptical charge area and a charge device located within the housing at the charge area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventor: Robert Paul Martin
  • Patent number: 11550392
    Abstract: In some examples, a facial gasket device includes a plurality of physiological sensors to detect physiological signals, and a signal processor to receive output signals based on measurements of the plurality of physiological sensors, the signal processor programmable to selectively combine a collection of the output signals to detect a target physiological activity of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Robert Paul Martin, Joseph Nouri
  • Patent number: 11401891
    Abstract: A desuperheating spray chamber for use in a rocket exhaust recovery system for a nuclear thermal propulsion rocket, including a substantially-cylindrical outer tank with an upper end including an entrance port and two exhaust ports, a substantially-cylindrical shroud extending downwardly from an inner surface of the upper end of the tank, an annular inner spray ring that is both disposed within and concentric with the shroud; and an annular outer spray ring that is disposed between a side wall of the outer tank and the shroud, the annular outer ring being concentric with the shroud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: BWXT Nuclear Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Paul Martin, Jeremy Leslie Gustafson, Ryan Z. Ziegler, Charles Larry Fisher, James Brian Inman
  • Publication number: 20220189131
    Abstract: Structured light is projected onto an object, and an image of the object as illuminated by the projected structured light is captured. Reference object points are identified within the captured image, and the structured light projected onto the object is modified based on the identified reference object points. An additional image of the object as illuminated by the modified projected structured light is captured, and additional reference object points are identified within the captured additional image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Joseph Nouri, Robert Paul Martin, Mark Lessman, Tsung-Nung Huang
  • Publication number: 20220066500
    Abstract: In some examples, an apparatus can include a head strap having an inner surface, an inflatable bladder located around the inner surface of the head strap, and a sensor located on the inflatable bladder, where inflation of the inflatable bladder causes the sensor to be in contact with an outer surface of a user of the head strap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Mithra Vankipuram, Ian N. Robinson, Robert Paul Martin
  • Publication number: 20220066555
    Abstract: In some examples, a facial gasket device includes a plurality of physiological sensors to detect physiological signals, and a signal processor to receive output signals based on measurements of the plurality of physiological sensors, the signal processor programmable to selectively combine a collection of the output signals to detect a target physiological activity of the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Robert Paul Martin, Joseph Nouri
  • Patent number: 11199711
    Abstract: A method of deriving data of a user's body pose in an enhanced reality system includes, with at least one camera coupled to a body-mounted housing, capturing at least one image in three-dimensional (3D) space of at least one extremity of a body of a user on which the body-mounted housing is mounted, and with a processor executing a body pose module, deriving data of a user's body pose based on the at least one image captured by the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Nathan Barr Nuber, Ian N. Robinson, Robert Paul Martin
  • Patent number: 11137824
    Abstract: An example system includes a camera to capture an image of at least one physical input device, a virtual reality (VR) environment display portion to generate a VR environment, a window forming portion to create a window in the VR environment, the position of the window in the VR environment corresponding to a physical location of an interaction area that includes the at least one physical input device, an input device display portion to form an image of the at least one physical input device from the camera, and a VR headset including a head-mounted display to display a composite image of the VR environment, the window and the image of the at least one physical input device. The composite image includes the image of the at least one physical input device within the window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Kevin Smathers, Hiroshi Horii, Ian N. Robinson, Robert Paul Martin
  • Patent number: 11099392
    Abstract: An enhanced reality system includes, in an example, a processor, an enhanced reality display to present, via execution of the processor, a view of an enhanced reality environment to a first user, a display device to present to at least a second user, via execution of the processor, a stabilized tracked view of the enhanced reality environment presented to the first user wherein the view of the enhanced environment provided by the display device is provided using a camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Ian N Robinson, Robert Paul Martin, Nathan Barr Nuber
  • Patent number: 10936147
    Abstract: An input system for a 3D display device includes a pen, and a tablet computing device to receive input via interaction with the pen. The tablet computing device including a display dock to dock the 3D display device and a pen dock to dock the pen, wherein docking of the 3D display device in the display dock facilitates a determination of a display position of a visual representation of the tablet computing device on the 3D display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Ian N Robinson, Nathan Nuber, Kevin Kowalski, Ashton Ondra, Derek Showers, Robert Paul Martin, Ron Y Zhang
  • Publication number: 20200278718
    Abstract: In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a wearable computing device mount is described. The wearable mount includes a harness wearable by a user and a plate attached to the harness, A computing device is selectively mounted to the plate via mechanical fasteners. The mount also includes a docking station coupled to the plate. The docking station includes a computing device port to engage with an electrical connector of the computing device when mounted to the plate and an auxiliary port to receive an auxiliary component wherein the docking station electrically couples the computing device with the auxiliary component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Steven Steinmark, Nathan Barr Nuber, Robert Paul Martin
  • Publication number: 20200241300
    Abstract: An enhanced reality system includes, in an example, a processor, an enhanced reality display to present, via execution of the processor, a view of an enhanced reality environment to a first user, a display device to present to at least a second user, via execution of the processor, a stabilized tracked view of the enhanced reality environment presented to the first user wherein the view of the enhanced environment provided by the display device is provided using a camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Ian N Robinson, Robert Paul Martin, Nathan Barr Nuber
  • Publication number: 20200241299
    Abstract: A method of deriving data of a user's body pose in an enhanced reality system includes, with at least one camera coupled to a body-mounted housing, capturing at least one image in three-dimensional (3D) space of at least one extremity of a body of a user on which the body-mounted housing is mounted, and with a processor executing a body pose module, deriving data of a user's body pose based on the at least one image captured by the camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Nathan Barr Nuber, Ian N. Robinson, Robert Paul Martin