Patents by Inventor Russell Gruhlke

Russell Gruhlke 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: 11907342
    Abstract: In some aspects, a user device may detect an authentication event associated with unlocking the user device. The user device may determine, based at least in part on sensor data from a sensor of the user device, an environmental context of the user device. The user device may select, from a plurality of authentication functions of the user device, an authentication function based at least in part on the environmental context of the user device. The user device may activate an authentication component that is associated with the authentication function to authenticate a user in association with unlocking the user device. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Russell Gruhlke, Naga Chandan Babu Gudivada, Vishnu Vardhan Kasilya Sudarsan, Sumeet Kumar Sahu, Ravishankar Sivalingam
  • Patent number: 11877041
    Abstract: An image sensor including a planar sensor array, a lens configured to form an optical image on the planar sensor array and characterized by a locus of focal points on a curved surface, and a cover glass with multiple thickness levels or multiple cover glasses of different sizes. The one or more cover glasses are configured to shift the locus of focal points for large field angles, such that there are multiple intersections between the planar sensor array and the locus of focal points for a large FOV, and thus multiple zones with best focus on the planar sensor array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Russell Gruhlke, Ravindra Vaman Shenoy, Jon Lasiter, Donald William Kidwell, Khurshid Syed Alam, Kebin Li
  • Publication number: 20230281835
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for eye imaging. For example, an eye tracking apparatus can include a first plurality of eye tracking components comprising a first illumination source, a first image sensor, and a first light directing component associated with a first field of view. The apparatus can include a second plurality of eye tracking components comprising a second illumination source, a second image sensor, and a second light directing component associated with a second field of view, wherein at least a portion of the first field of view is different from at least a portion of the second field of view. The apparatus can include a display and a lens assembly including a first lens between a first object and the display and a second lens between a second object and the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Russell GRUHLKE, Kebin (Kirby) LI
  • Patent number: 11711594
    Abstract: An image sensor device includes two or more image sensor arrays (or two or more regions of an image sensor array) and a low-power processor in a same package for capturing two or more images of an object, such as an eye of a user, using light in two or more wavelength bands, such as visible band, near-infrared band, and short-wave infrared band. The image sensor device includes one or more lens assemblies and/or a beam splitter for forming an image of the object on each of the two or more image sensor arrays. The image sensor device also includes one or more filters configured to select light from multiple wavelength bands for imaging by the respective image sensor arrays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jon Lasiter, Ravindra Vaman Shenoy, Ravishankar Sivalingam, Russell Gruhlke, Donald William Kidwell, Khurshid Syed Alam, Kebin Li
  • Patent number: 11678043
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to a sensor module. In some aspects, a sensor module may include a collar configured to be attached to a camera module for a user device. The collar may include a first opening that is configured to align with an aperture of a camera of the camera module, and a second opening. The sensor module may include a sensor embedded in the collar. The sensor may be aligned with the second opening of the collar. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Russell Gruhlke, Jon Lasiter, Ravindra Vaman Shenoy, Ravishankar Sivalingam, Kebin Li, Khurshid Syed Alam
  • Patent number: 11656463
    Abstract: In some aspects, an eye tracking device may produce, using an infrared lighting device outside of a lens module, infrared light to illuminate an eye of a user for eye tracking. The eye tracking device may direct, using a substrate having a light directing mechanism, the infrared light reflected from the eye of the user towards an eye tracking camera within the lens module. The eye tracking device may perform, using the eye tracking camera, eye tracking on the eye of the user. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventor: Russell Gruhlke
  • Patent number: 11659266
    Abstract: In some aspects, a user device may receive, from a vision sensor of a user device, first image data associated with a first set of images. The user device may determine, using an image processing model, that a set of images depict a particular type of eye activity of an eye of a user. The user device may cause, based at least in part on determining that the first set of images depict the particular type of eye activity, a power level of a camera of the user device to be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Russell Gruhlke, Ravishankar Sivalingam, Edwin Chongwoo Park
  • Patent number: 11620806
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to optical character detection. In some aspects, a user device may receive, from a vision sensor, a first image that is associated with a first optical character image. The user device may determine, using an image processing model, that the first image depicts the first optical character image. The user device may cause, based at least in part on determining that the first image depicts the first optical character image, a camera to capture a second image that is associated with a second optical character image. The user device may perform an action associated with the second image. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ravishankar Sivalingam, Russell Gruhlke, Ravindra Vaman Shenoy, Donald William Kidwell, Jr., Evgeni Gousev, Kebin Li, Khurshid Syed Alam, Edwin Chongwoo Park, Arnold Jason Gum
  • Patent number: 11532175
    Abstract: In some aspects, a device may detect that an object is contacting a display of the device. The device may illuminate, based at least in part on detecting that the object is contacting the display, a plurality of pixel regions of the display. The plurality of pixel regions may be illuminated sequentially. The device may obtain, using one or more photosensors, a set of data relating to light that is reflected from at least a portion of the object based at least in part on illuminating the plurality of pixel regions. The set of data may include respective data for each sequential illumination of the plurality of pixel regions. The device may generate an image of at least the portion of the object based at least in part on the set of data. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Russell Gruhlke, Ravishankar Sivalingam, Donald William Kidwell, Edwin Chongwoo Park
  • Publication number: 20220382410
    Abstract: In some aspects, a device may cause a light emitter to emit light waves within a light plane that is parallel to a surface of an input component. The device may receive, from a sensor arrangement, a measurement associated with the light waves in the light plane. The measurement may be indicative of an intended input of a user. The device may perform an action that is associated with a user input of the input component based at least in part on the intended input. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventor: Russell GRUHLKE
  • Publication number: 20220383018
    Abstract: In some aspects, a device may detect that an object is contacting a display of the device. The device may illuminate, based at least in part on detecting that the object is contacting the display, a plurality of pixel regions of the display. The plurality of pixel regions may be illuminated sequentially. The device may obtain, using one or more photosensors, a set of data relating to light that is reflected from at least a portion of the object based at least in part on illuminating the plurality of pixel regions. The set of data may include respective data for each sequential illumination of the plurality of pixel regions. The device may generate an image of at least the portion of the object based at least in part on the set of data. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Russell GRUHLKE, Ravishankar SIVALINGAM, Donald William KIDWELL, JR., Edwin Chongwoo PARK
  • Publication number: 20220311938
    Abstract: Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for image capture are presented. An apparatus according to one aspect of the disclosure comprises a plurality of optical elements configured to direct light from an environment toward an image sensor. The apparatus further comprises one or more support structures coupled to the plurality of optical elements. According to this aspect, the one or more support structures are configured to support each of the plurality of optical elements at a relative location with respect to the image sensor. According to this aspect, each of the plurality of optical elements is configured to receive light from the environment based on a different field of view, as received light, and direct the received light toward the image sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Edwin Chongwoo PARK, Russell GRUHLKE
  • Publication number: 20220279137
    Abstract: An image sensor device includes two or more image sensor arrays (or two or more regions of an image sensor array) and a low-power processor in a same package for capturing two or more images of an object, such as an eye of a user, using light in two or more wavelength bands, such as visible band, near-infrared band, and short-wave infrared band. The image sensor device includes one or more lens assemblies and/or a beam splitter for forming an image of the object on each of the two or more image sensor arrays. The image sensor device also includes one or more filters configured to select light from multiple wavelength bands for imaging by the respective image sensor arrays.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Jon LASITER, Ravindra Vaman SHENOY, Ravishankar SIVALINGAM, Russell GRUHLKE, Donald William KIDWELL, Khurshid Syed ALAM, Kebin LI
  • Publication number: 20220276702
    Abstract: In some aspects, a head mounted device may include an eye portion configured to face an eye of a user wearing the head mounted device, where the eye portion includes a display. The head mounted device may include at least one light emitter configured to emit light for illuminating at least a portion of a nose of the user. The head mounted device may include at least one image sensor configured to capture an image of at least a portion of the nose of the user for use in determining a shift or a rotation of the head mounted device relative to the user. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Khurshid Syed ALAM, Russell GRUHLKE
  • Publication number: 20220191411
    Abstract: In some aspects, a spectral image capturing device may receive, from a filter array, visible light and infrared light, wherein the filter array includes a quantity of color filters to block the infrared light and pass the visible light and a quantity of infrared filters to block the visible light and pass the infrared light. The spectral image capturing device may produce, using an image sensor that includes an array of pixel sensors, a spectral image based at least in part on the visible light and the infrared light passed by the filter array. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Russell GRUHLKE, Edwin Chongwoo PARK, Naga Chandan Babu GUDIVADA
  • Publication number: 20220171188
    Abstract: In some aspects, an eye tracking device may produce, using an infrared lighting device outside of a lens module, infrared light to illuminate an eye of a user for eye tracking. The eye tracking device may direct, using a substrate having a light directing mechanism, the infrared light reflected from the eye of the user towards an eye tracking camera within the lens module. The eye tracking device may perform, using the eye tracking camera, eye tracking on the eye of the user. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventor: Russell GRUHLKE
  • Publication number: 20220164421
    Abstract: In some aspects, a user device may detect an authentication event associated with unlocking the user device. The user device may determine, based at least in part on sensor data from a sensor of the user device, an environmental context of the user device. The user device may select, from a plurality of authentication functions of the user device, an authentication function based at least in part on the environmental context of the user device. The user device may activate an authentication component that is associated with the authentication function to authenticate a user in association with unlocking the user device. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Russell GRUHLKE, Naga Chandan Babu GUDIVADA, Vishnu Vardhan KASILYA SUDARSAN, Sumeet Kumar SAHU, Ravishankar SIVALINGAM
  • Publication number: 20220124242
    Abstract: In some aspects, a user device may receive, from a vision sensor of a user device, first image data associated with a first set of images. The user device may determine, using an image processing model, that a set of images depict a particular type of eye activity of an eye of a user. The user device may cause, based at least in part on determining that the first set of images depict the particular type of eye activity, a power level of a camera of the user device to be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Russell GRUHLKE, Ravishankar SIVALINGAM, Edwin Chongwoo PARK
  • Patent number: 11277559
    Abstract: In one example, an image sensor module comprises one or more covers having at least a first opening and a second opening, a first lens mounted in the first opening and having a first field of view (FOV) centered at a first axis having a first orientation, a second lens mounted in the second opening and having a second FOV centered at a second axis having a second orientation different from the first orientation, a first image sensor housed within the one or more covers and configured to detect light via the first lens, and a second image sensor housed within the one or more covers and configured to detect light via the second lens. The first image sensor and the second image sensor are configured to provide, based on the detected light, image data of a combined FOV larger than each of the first FOV and the second FOV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jon Lasiter, Evgeni Gousev, Ravindra Vaman Shenoy, Russell Gruhlke, Khurshid Syed Alam, Kebin Li, Edwin Chongwoo Park
  • Publication number: 20220030148
    Abstract: An image sensor including a planar sensor array, a lens configured to form an optical image on the planar sensor array and characterized by a locus of focal points on a curved surface, and a cover glass with multiple thickness levels or multiple cover glasses of different sizes. The one or more cover glasses are configured to shift the locus of focal points for large field angles, such that there are multiple intersections between the planar sensor array and the locus of focal points for a large FOV, and thus multiple zones with best focus on the planar sensor array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Russell GRUHLKE, Ravindra Vaman SHENOY, Jon LASITER, Donald William KIDWELL, Khurshid Syed ALAM, Kebin LI