Patents by Inventor Scott Daly

Scott Daly 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: 12273701
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for hybrid near/far-field speaker virtualization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Nicolas R. Tsingos, Satej Suresh Pankey, Vimal Puthanveed, Poppy Anne Carrie Crum, Jeffrey Ross Baker, Ian Eric Esten, Scott Daly, Daniel Paul Darcy
  • Patent number: 12217724
    Abstract: A handheld imaging device has a data receiver that is configured to receive reference encoded image data. The data includes reference code values, which are encoded by an external coding system. The reference code values represent reference gray levels, which are being selected using a reference grayscale display function that is based on perceptual non-linearity of human vision adapted at different light levels to spatial frequencies. The imaging device also has a data converter that is configured to access a code mapping between the reference code values and device-specific code values of the imaging device. The device-specific code values are configured to produce gray levels that are specific to the imaging device. Based on the code mapping, the data converter is configured to transcode the reference encoded image data into device-specific image data, which is encoded with the device-specific code values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Jon Scott Miller, Scott Daly, Mahdi Nezamabadi, Robin Atkins
  • Publication number: 20250036195
    Abstract: A method comprising acquiring a set of voltage signals from a set of electrodes arranged in proximity to the ears of a user, based on the set of voltage signals, determining an EOG gaze vector in ego-centric coordinates, determining a head pose of the user in display coordinates, using a sensor device worn by the user, combining the EOG gaze vector and head pose to obtain a gaze vector in display coordinates, and determining a gaze point by calculating an intersection of the gaze vector and an imaging surface having a known position in display coordinates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Andrea Fanelli, Evan David Gitterman, Nathan Carl Swedlow, Alex Brandmeyer, McGregor Steele Joyner, Scott Daly, Poppy Anne Carrie Crum
  • Patent number: 12137276
    Abstract: A method for delivering media to a playback device including outputting first test media to be viewed by a first user. The method further includes receiving a first user input related to a first perception of the first test media by the first user and indicating a first personalized quality of experience of the first user with respect to the first test media. The method further includes generating a first personalized sensitivity profile including one or more viewing characteristics of the first user based on the first user input, and determining, based at least in part on the first personalized sensitivity profile, a first media parameter. The first media parameter is determined in order to increase an efficiency of media delivery to the first playback device over a network while preserving the first personalized quality of experience of the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Doh-Suk Kim, Sean Thomas McCarthy, Scott Daly, Jeffrey Riedmiller, Ludovic Christophe Malfait, Raphael Marc Ullmann, Jason Michael Cloud
  • Patent number: 12096200
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of generating personalized HRTFs. The system is prepared by calculating a model for HRTFs described as the relationship between a finite example set of input data, namely anthropometric measures and demographic information for a set of individuals, and a corresponding set of output data, namely HRTFs numerically simulated using a high-resolution database of 3D scans of the same set of individuals. At the time of use, the system queries the user for their demographic information, and then from a series of images of the user, the system detects and measures various anthropometric characteristics. The system then applies the prepared model to the anthropometric and demographic data as part of generating a personalized HRTF. In this manner, the personalized HRTF can be generated with more convenience than by performing a high-resolution scan or an acoustic measurement of the user, and with less computational complexity than by numerically simulating their HRTF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Mcgregor Steele Joyner, Alex Brandmeyer, Scott Daly, Jeffrey Ross Baker, Andrea Fanelli, Poppy Anne Carrie Crum
  • Patent number: 11887560
    Abstract: A handheld imaging device has a data receiver that is configured to receive reference encoded image data. The data includes reference code values, which are encoded by an external coding system. The reference code values represent reference gray levels, which are being selected using a reference grayscale display function that is based on perceptual non-linearity of human vision adapted at different light levels to spatial frequencies. The imaging device also has a data converter that is configured to access a code mapping between the reference code values and device-specific code values of the imaging device. The device-specific code values are configured to produce gray levels that are specific to the imaging device. Based on the code mapping, the data converter is configured to transcode the reference encoded image data into device-specific image data, which is encoded with the device-specific code values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Jon Scott Miller, Scott Daly, Mahdi Nezamabadi, Robin Atkins
  • Patent number: 11863839
    Abstract: A method for delivering media to a playback device including outputting first test media to be viewed by a first user. The method further includes receiving a first user input related to a first perception of the first test media by the first user and indicating a first personalized quality of experience of the first user with respect to the first test media. The method further includes generating a first personalized sensitivity profile including one or more viewing characteristics of the first user based on the first user input, and determining, based at least in part on the first personalized sensitivity profile, a first media parameter. The first media parameter is determined in order to increase an efficiency of media delivery to the first playback device over a network while preserving the first personalized quality of experience of the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Doh-Suk Kim, Sean Thomas McCarthy, Scott Daly, Jeffrey Riedmiller, Ludovic Christophe Malfait, Raphael Marc Ullmann, Jason Michael Cloud
  • Patent number: 11776099
    Abstract: Methods and systems for generating an image quality metric are described. A reference and a test image are first converted to the ITP color space. After calculating difference images ?I, ?T, and ?P, using the color channels of the two images, the difference images are convolved with low pass filters, one for the I channel and one for the chroma channels (I or P). The image quality metric is computed as a function of the sum of squares of filtered ?I, ?T, and ?P values. The chroma low-pass filter is designed to maximize matching the image quality metric with subjective results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Wanat, Robin Atkins, Anustup Kumar Atanu Choudhury, Scott Daly, Jaclyn Anne Pytlarz
  • Patent number: 11778403
    Abstract: An apparatus and method of generating personalized HRTFs. The system is prepared by calculating a model for HRTFs described as the relationship between a finite example set of input data, namely anthropometric measures and demographic information for a set of individuals, and a corresponding set of output data, namely HRTFs numerically simulated using a high-resolution database of 3D scans of the same set of individuals. At the time of use, the system queries the user for their demographic information, and then from a series of images of the user, the system detects and measures various anthropometric characteristics. The system then applies the prepared model to the anthropometric and demographic data as part of generating a personalized HRTF. In this manner, the personalized HRTF can be generated with more convenience than by performing a high-resolution scan or an acoustic measurement of the user, and with less computational complexity than by numerically simulating their HRTF.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: McGregor Steele Joyner, Alex Brandmeyer, Scott Daly, Jeffrey Ross Baker, Andrea Fanelli, Poppy Anne Carrie Crum
  • Patent number: 11678014
    Abstract: Creative intent input describing emotion expectations and narrative information relating to media content is received. Expected physiologically observable states relating to the media content are generated based on the creative intent input. An audiovisual content signal with the media content and media metadata comprising the physiologically observable states is provided to a playback apparatus. The audiovisual content signal causes the playback device to use physiological monitoring signals to determine, with respect to a viewer, assessed physiologically observable states relating to the media content and generate, based on the expected physiologically observable states and the assessed physiologically observable states, modified media content to be rendered to the viewer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Scott Daly, Poppy Anne Carrie Crum, Evan David Gitterman, Shane Mario Ruggieri
  • Patent number: 11600244
    Abstract: A handheld imaging device has a data receiver that is configured to receive reference encoded image data. The data includes reference code values, which are encoded by an external coding system. The reference code values represent reference gray levels, which are being selected using a reference grayscale display function that is based on perceptual non-linearity of human vision adapted at different light levels to spatial frequencies. The imaging device also has a data converter that is configured to access a code mapping between the reference code values and device-specific code values of the imaging device. The device-specific code values are configured to produce gray levels that are specific to the imaging device. Based on the code mapping, the data converter is configured to transcode the reference encoded image data into device-specific image data, which is encoded with the device-specific code values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jon Scott Miller, Scott Daly, Mahdi Nezamabadi, Robin Atkins
  • Patent number: 11587526
    Abstract: One or more media contents are received. A viewer's light adaptive states are predicted as a function of time as if the viewer is watching display mapped images derived from the one or more media contents. The viewer's light adaptive states are used to detect an excessive change in luminance in a specific media content portion of the one or more media contents. The excessive change in luminance in the specific media content portion of the one or more media contents is caused to be reduced while the viewer is watching one or more corresponding display mapped images derived from the specific media content portion of the one or more media contents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Alexandre Chapiro, Robin Atkins, Scott Daly
  • Patent number: 11587529
    Abstract: A handheld imaging device has a data receiver that is configured to receive reference encoded image data. The data includes reference code values, which are encoded by an external coding system. The reference code values represent reference gray levels, which are being selected using a reference grayscale display function that is based on perceptual non-linearity of human vision adapted at different light levels to spatial frequencies. The imaging device also has a data converter that is configured to access a code mapping between the reference code values and device-specific code values of the imaging device. The device-specific code values are configured to produce gray levels that are specific to the imaging device. Based on the code mapping, the data converter is configured to transcode the reference encoded image data into device-specific image data, which is encoded with the device-specific code values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Jon Scott Miller, Scott Daly, Mahdi Nezamabadi, Robin Atkins
  • Publication number: 20230007343
    Abstract: Creative intent input describing emotion expectations and narrative information relating to media content is received. Expected physiologically observable states relating to the media content are generated based on the creative intent input. An audiovisual content signal with the media content and media metadata comprising the physiologically observable states is provided to a playback apparatus. The audiovisual content signal causes the playback device to use physiological monitoring signals to determine, with respect to a viewer, assessed physiologically observable states relating to the media content and generate, based on the expected physiologically observable states and the assessed physiologically observable states, modified media content to be rendered to the viewer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Scott Daly, Poppy Anne Carrie Crum, Evan David Gitterman, Shane Mario Ruggieri
  • Publication number: 20220345845
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for hybrid near/far-field speaker virtualization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Nicolas R. Tsingos, Satej Suresh Pankey, Vimal Puthanveed, Poppy Anne Carrie Crum, Jeffrey Ross Baker, Ian Eric Esten, Scott Daly, Daniel Paul Darcy
  • Patent number: 11477525
    Abstract: Creative intent input describing emotion expectations and narrative information relating to media content is received. Expected physiologically observable states relating to the media content are generated based on the creative intent input. An audiovisual content signal with the media content and media metadata comprising the physiologically observable states is provided to a playback apparatus. The audiovisual content signal causes the playback device to use physiological monitoring signals to determine, with respect to a viewer, assessed physiologically observable states relating to the media content and generate, based on the expected physiologically observable states and the assessed physiologically observable states, modified media content to be rendered to the viewer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Scott Daly, Poppy Anne Carrie Crum, Evan David Gitterman, Shane Mario Ruggieri
  • Patent number: 11161051
    Abstract: A toy vehicle track set is disclosed herein. The track set includes at least one track section and a support that can hold the track section in a particular orientation or position relative to a support surface. In one embodiment, the support includes a base, a support member that is coupleable to the base, and a coupler that is connected to the support member. The track section can be engaged with the coupler which is movably mounted to the support member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Mattel, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Daly, Paul Schmid
  • Patent number: 11019302
    Abstract: Methods for encoding and decoding high-dynamic range signals are presented. The signals are encoded in a high frame rate and are accompanied by frame-rate conversion metadata defining a preferred set of frame-rate down-conversion parameters, which are determined according to the maximum luminance of a target display, display playback priority modes, or judder control modes. A decoder uses the frame-rate conversion metadata to apply frame-rate down-conversion to the input high-frame-rate signal according to at least the maximum luminance of the target display and/or the characteristics of the signal itself. Frame-based and pixel-based frame-rate conversions, and judder models for judder control via metadata are also discussed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Jaclyn Anne Pytlarz, Robin Atkins, Elizabeth G. Pieri, Alexandre Chapiro, Scott Daly
  • Patent number: 10977764
    Abstract: A spherical image of a spatial environment is received and contains spherically arranged pixel values indexed by a time value. The spherical image is represented in a content creation coordinate system in reference to a spatial position in the spatial environment. The spatial position is indexed by the time value. A spatial relationship is determined between the content creation coordinate system and a spherical image reference coordinate system. Based at least in part on the spatial relationship and the spherically arranged pixel values, spherical distributions of image metadata are determined for the spherical image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Timo Kunkel, Cristina Michel Vasco, Scott Daly
  • Patent number: 10957283
    Abstract: A handheld imaging device has a data receiver that is configured to receive reference encoded image data. The data includes reference code values, which are encoded by an external coding system. The reference code values represent reference gray levels, which are being selected using a reference grayscale display function that is based on perceptual non-linearity of human vision adapted at different light levels to spatial frequencies. The imaging device also has a data converter that is configured to access a code mapping between the reference code values and device-specific code values of the imaging device. The device-specific code values are configured to produce gray levels that are specific to the imaging device. Based on the code mapping, the data converter is configured to transcode the reference encoded image data into device-specific image data, which is encoded with the device-specific code values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Jon Scott Miller, Scott Daly, Mahdi Nezamabadi, Robin Atkins