Patents by Inventor Scott Lerner

Scott Lerner 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: 20220294961
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are presented for taking a combination of images taken synchronous in time with one another. According to one example, the present disclosure proposes one or more sensor arrays, each of which comprises multiple pixel sensors arranged to capture image data responsive to light exposure. Light is incident on the respective sensor arrays during substantially synchronous exposures. The one or more sensor arrays are configured such that the image data captured by the respective sensor arrays during the synchronous exposure differ in at least one of a luminance output or a color profile from one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventor: Scott Lerner
  • Patent number: 11375130
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are presented for taking a combination of images taken synchronous in time with one another. According to one example, the present disclosure proposes one or more sensor arrays, each of which comprises multiple pixel sensors arranged to capture image data responsive to light exposure. Light is incident on the respective sensor arrays during substantially synchronous exposures. The one or more sensor arrays are configured such that the image data captured by the respective sensor arrays during the synchronous exposure differ in at least one of a luminance output or a color profile from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventor: Scott Lerner
  • Publication number: 20210174123
    Abstract: The present application discloses various systems, methods and non-transitory computer-readable mediums that include a first device and a second device to perform processing on a digital image. According to one example, a second one or more edits made using the second device are user subjective and a first one or more edits made using the first device are user agnostic. The second one or more edits are reliant on the first one or more edits for processing flexibility to achieve a desired image attribute.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Scott Lerner, Bo Ding
  • Patent number: 10956770
    Abstract: The present application discloses various systems, methods and non-transitory computer-readable mediums that include a first device and a second device to perform processing on a digital image. According to one example, a second one or more edits made using the second device are user subjective and a first one or more edits made using the first device are user agnostic. The second one or more edits are reliant on the first one or more edits for processing flexibility to achieve a desired image attribute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Lerner, Bo Ding
  • Patent number: 10931674
    Abstract: A computer system identifies that a user activity on a user device during a first time period corresponds to a first user activity profile. The computer system monitors user activity on a user device during a second time period. The computer system determines that the user activity associated with the second time period does not correspond to the first user activity profile. In response to the determining that the user activity associated with the second time period corresponds to the second user activity profile, the computer system implements one or more security measures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventor: Brandon Scott Lerner
  • Patent number: 10609295
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are presented for taking a combination of images taken synchronous in time with one another. According to one example, the present disclosure proposes one or more sensor arrays, each of which comprises multiple pixel sensors arranged to capture image data responsive to light exposure. Light is incident on the respective sensor arrays during substantially synchronous exposures. The one or more sensor arrays are configured such that the image data captured by the respective sensor arrays during the synchronous exposure differ in at least one of a luminance output or a color profile from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventor: Scott Lerner
  • Publication number: 20190334903
    Abstract: A computer system identifies that a user activity on a user device during a first time period corresponds to a first user activity profile. The computer system monitors user activity on a user device during a second time period. The computer system determines that the user activity associated with the second time period does not correspond to the first user activity profile. In response to the determining that the user activity associated with the second time period corresponds to the second user activity profile, the computer system implements one or more security measures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventor: Brandon Scott LERNER
  • Patent number: 10264115
    Abstract: A computer system determines whether a location of a computing device corresponds to a vehicle that is in motion. In response to determining that the location of the computing device corresponds to the vehicle that is in motion, and determining that the location of the computing device corresponds to an area in the vehicle that is associated with a driver of the vehicle, the computer system imposes one or more restrictions on a usage of the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Titus Woo, Brandon Scott Lerner, Justin Haddadnia, Shao-Fei Moy, Daniel Holly Wells, Raquel Buckley
  • Patent number: 10212356
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are presented for taking a combination of images taken synchronous in time with one another. According to one example, the present disclosure proposes one or more sensor arrays, each of which comprises multiple pixel sensors arranged to capture image data responsive to light exposure. Light is incident on the respective sensor arrays during substantially synchronous exposures. The one or more sensor arrays are configured such that the image data captured by the respective sensor arrays during the synchronous exposure differ in at least one of a luminance output or a color profile from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventor: Scott Lerner
  • Patent number: 10204451
    Abstract: A multi-optical surface optical design for generating multiple focal planes with identical image data displayed at substantially the same time to generate the perception of varying focal depths is described. The multi-optical surface optical design can include a device comprising reflective optical surfaces that can be arranged on top of one another and configured to generate multiple focal planes and an image source for projecting image data onto the reflective optical surfaces. The technologies described can cause image data to be rendered in a focal plane corresponding to a desired focal distance and multiple copies of the image can be perceived in other focal planes of the multiple focal planes at substantially the same time as the image data is rendered in the focal plane. Each copy of the multiple copies can be presented with a perceived degree of sharpness such that each copy is out-of-focus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Jaron Lanier, Scott Lerner, Joel S. Kollin, Andrew Maimone, Josh Hudman
  • Publication number: 20170343819
    Abstract: There is provided a display device with a holder that can be fitted on the head of a user and a first imaging optical system secured to the holder, which is formed to image an image generated in an image plane as a virtual image in such a way that, when the holder is fitted on his head, the user can perceive it with a first eye, wherein the first imaging optical system includes, as imaging element, precisely one first lens with a first and a second boundary surface, wherein the two boundary surfaces are each aspherically curved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Scott LERNER, Dietmar GAENGLER, Norbert KERWIEN, Wilhelm ULRICH
  • Publication number: 20170336609
    Abstract: Catadioptric eyepiece system having an exit pupil, comprising a display having a surface disposed in an object plane; optics providing a beam path from the display to the exit pupil and being configured to image a portion of the object plane into an intermediate image formed in a curved intermediate image plane; wherein the optics comprise: a lens system of positive optical power comprising at least one lens, wherein the lens system is disposed in the beam path downstream of the display and upstream of the intermediate image; a concave first mirror disposed in the beam path downstream of the intermediate image and upstream of the exit pupil; and a first beam splitter disposed in the beam path between the lens system and the first mirror and between the first mirror and the exit pupil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Scott LERNER, Markus SEESSELBERG, Tobias BREUNINGER, David SHAFER, Toufic JABBOUR
  • Publication number: 20170154464
    Abstract: A multi-optical surface optical design for generating multiple focal planes with identical image data displayed at substantially the same time to generate the perception of varying focal depths is described. The multi-optical surface optical design can include a device comprising reflective optical surfaces that can be arranged on top of one another and configured to generate multiple focal planes and an image source for projecting image data onto the reflective optical surfaces. The technologies described can cause image data to be rendered in a focal plane corresponding to a desired focal distance and multiple copies of the image can be perceived in other focal planes of the multiple focal planes at substantially the same time as the image data is rendered in the focal plane. Each copy of the multiple copies can be presented with a perceived degree of sharpness such that each copy is out-of-focus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Publication date: June 1, 2017
    Inventors: Jaron Lanier, Scott Lerner, Joel S. Kollin, Andrew Maimone, Josh Hudman
  • Patent number: 8891579
    Abstract: A laser diode apparatus including a mounting block, a plurality of diode lasers mounted to the mounting block and each capable of emitting a respective diode laser beam, and a plurality of cylindrical mirrors each having a reflective back surface for providing slow axis collimation of an incident diode laser beam via reflection off the back surface, each one of the plurality of cylindrical mirrors optically coupled to a respective diode laser of the plurality of diode lasers and optically oriented therewith so as to be capable of providing the diode laser beams in a stacked arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: nLIGHT Photonics Corporation
    Inventors: Kirk Price, Scott Lerner
  • Patent number: 8831396
    Abstract: A beam homogenizing apparatus includes at least one flexible optical fiber for receiving light, the flexible optical fiber including a homogenizing output portion having a tileable cross-section, the output portion for producing a substantially homogenized intensity profile for light emitted therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: nLIGHT Photonics Corporation
    Inventors: Kirk Price, Scott Lerner
  • Patent number: 8816188
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods related to photovoltaic energy are provided. A device includes electrically conductive supports in electrical contact with one or more photovoltaic cells. The photovoltaic cells are secured with respect to the supports by a clamping force soldering or other means. Optics concentrate and guide photonic energy onto the photovoltaic cells. Generated electrical energy is coupled to a load using the conductive supports. Heat is rejected from the photovoltaic cells using at least one of the supports and a fluid flow, thermal conduction, and so on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Karl S Weibezahn, Scott Lerner
  • Publication number: 20140034112
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided for use with solar energy. An optical concentrator and splitter (OCS) includes a non-planar bottom surface having symmetrical halves, each half defined by an off-axis section of a parabola. The bottom surface bears a dielectric surface treatment. The OCS is configured to concentrate a first spectral portion of photonic energy through respective side surfaces, and to concentrate a second spectral portion through the bottom surface. Targets such as photovoltaic cells or others receive the concentrated first and second spectral portions, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Inventors: Scott Lerner, Stephan R. Clark, John P. Whitlock
  • Publication number: 20130098427
    Abstract: An example of this disclosure relates to paraboloid reflectors. Another example of this disclosure relates to a collector panel including collector cells and paraboloid reflectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2011
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Inventors: Frank Bretl, Stephan R. Clark, Scott Lerner
  • Publication number: 20120305050
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided for use with solar energy. An optical material defines light-directing surface features, each configured to direct incident photonic energy away from a respective dead-space. Photovoltaic cells or other entities receive photonic energy propagating through the optical material, including that portion being directed by the light-directing surface features. Various entities can be located within the dead-spaces defined between the photovoltaic cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2011
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Inventors: Scott Lerner, John P Whitlock, Stephan R Clark
  • Patent number: D1043361
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: HALO PURELY FOR PETS, INC.
    Inventors: Ryan Wilson, Scott Lerner, Katie Lopez, Richard Palmer