Patents by Inventor Shin Hwun Kang

Shin Hwun Kang 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: 11302077
    Abstract: Augmented reality guidance for guiding a user through an environment using an eyewear device. The eyewear device includes a display system and a position detection system. A user is guided though an environment by monitoring a current position of the eyewear device within the environment, identifying marker positions within a threshold of the current position, the marker positions defined with respect to the environment and associated with guidance markers, registering the marker positions, generating overlay image including the guidance markers, and presenting the overlay image on a display of the eyewear device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Shin Hwun Kang, Dmytro Kucher, Dmytro Hovorov, Ilteris Canberk
  • Publication number: 20220084303
    Abstract: Eyewear providing an interactive augmented reality experience to allow a user of an eyewear device to display a 3D overlay image on a viewed person. The user can select the overlay image from a list of images, such as costumes, stored in memory or generated by the user. The images can be sorted in memory based on common attributes. Registration points of the person are continuously aligned with registration points of the overlay as the person moves such that the user appears to be wearing the 3D costume during movement. By aligning the registration points, the costume adapts to different body types and heights. The coloring of the costume can change based on the environment, such as the lighting, or to contrast with colors viewed in a viewfinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Ilteris Canberk, Shin Hwun Kang
  • Patent number: 11277597
    Abstract: Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for producing an augmented reality (AR) experience for display on a smart eyewear device. The AR production system includes a marker registration utility for setting and storing markers, a localization utility for locating the eyewear device relative to a marker location and to the mapped environment, and a virtual object rendering utility to presenting one or more virtual objects having a desired size, shape, and orientation. A high-definition camera captures an input image of the environment. If the input image includes a marker, the system retrieves from memory a set of data including a first marker location expressed in terms relative to a marker coordinate system. The localization utility determines a local position of the eyewear device relative to the marker location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Ilteris Canberk, Shin Hwun Kang, Kristina Marrero
  • Publication number: 20210405746
    Abstract: Eyewear providing an interactive augmented reality experience between two users of eyewear devices to perform a shared group object manipulation task. During the shared group task, each user of the eyewear controls movement of a respective virtual object in a virtual scene based on a portion of the virtual scene the user is gazing at. Each user can also generate a verbal command to generate a virtual object that interacts with one or more of the other virtual objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Ilteris Canberk, Shin Hwun Kang, Dmytro Kucher
  • Publication number: 20210407203
    Abstract: Augmented reality experiences with an eyewear device including a position detection system and a display system are provided. The eyewear device acquires text from a user input, a data input, or a speech recognition system. The eyewear device presents a visual text graphic at a predefined location with respect to the eyewear on the display by the display system. The eyewear device allows the user to manipulate the visual text graphics in a number of ways.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Ilteris Canberk, Shin Hwun Kang, Daniel Moreno
  • Publication number: 20210405955
    Abstract: Eyewear providing an interactive augmented reality experience between two users of eyewear devices to perform a shared group task. During a shared group task session, each eyewear user can manipulate virtual objects displayed in a respective virtual scene that is viewable to each use to perform collaboration. The virtual objects can include many different types of objects, such as a building structure that can be jointly created and edited by the eyewear users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Ilteris Canberk, Shin Hwun Kang, Dmytro Kucher
  • Publication number: 20210405363
    Abstract: Augmented reality experiences with an eyewear device including a position detection system and a display system are provided. The eyewear device allows setting a predefined distance target or distance targets. The eyewear device monitors the distance between the eyewear device and one or more other persons using the position detection system of the eyewear device. The eyewear device generates an alert if one or more of the other persons is within the one or more predefined distance targets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Ilteris Canberk, Shin Hwun Kang
  • Publication number: 20210407213
    Abstract: Eyewear providing an interactive augmented reality experience to allow a user of an eyewear device to display a 3D overlay image on a viewed person. The user can select the overlay image from a list of images, such as costumes, stored in memory or generated by the user. The images can be sorted in memory based on common attributes. Registration points of the person are continuously aligned with registration points of the overlay as the person moves such that the user appears to be wearing the 3D costume during movement. By aligning the registration points, the costume adapts to different body types and heights. The coloring of the costume can change based on the environment, such as the lighting, or to contrast with colors viewed in a viewfinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Ilteris Canberk, Shin Hwun Kang
  • Publication number: 20210407205
    Abstract: Eyewear presenting text corresponding to spoken words (e.g., in speech bubbles) and optionally translating from one language to another. In one example, an interactive augmented reality experience is provided between two users of eyewear devices to allow one user of an eyewear device to share a personal attribute of the user with a second user. The personal attribute can be speech spoken by a remote second user of eyewear converted to text. The converted text can be displayed on a display of eyewear of the first user proximate the viewed second user. The personal attribute may be displayed in a speech bubble proximate the second user, such as proximate the head or mouth of the second user. The language of the spoken speech can be recognized by the second user eyewear, and translated to a language that is understood by the first user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Ilteris Canberk, Shin Hwun Kang, Dmytro Kucher
  • Patent number: 11195341
    Abstract: Eyewear providing an interactive augmented reality experience to allow a user of an eyewear device to display a 3D overlay image on a viewed person. The user can select the overlay image from a list of images, such as costumes, stored in memory or generated by the user. The images can be sorted in memory based on common attributes. Registration points of the person are continuously aligned with registration points of the overlay as the person moves such that the user appears to be wearing the 3D costume during movement. By aligning the registration points, the costume adapts to different body types and heights. The coloring of the costume can change based on the environment, such as the lighting, or to contrast with colors viewed in a viewfinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Ilteris Canberk, Shin Hwun Kang
  • Publication number: 20210373650
    Abstract: Interactive augmented reality experiences with an eyewear device including a position detection system and a display system. The eyewear device registers a first marker position for a user-controlled virtual game piece and a second marker for an interaction virtual game piece. The eyewear device monitors its position (e.g., location and orientation) and updates the position of the user-controlled virtual game piece accordingly. The eyewear device additionally monitors the position of the user-controlled virtual game piece with respect to the interaction virtual game piece for use in generating a score. Augmented reality examples include a “spheroidal balancing” augmented reality experience and a “spheroidal balancing” augmented reality experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Shin Hwun Kang, Ilteris Canberk, James Powderly, Dmytro Kucher, Dmytro Hovorov
  • Publication number: 20210375048
    Abstract: Augmented reality guidance for guiding a user through an environment using an eyewear device. The eyewear device includes a display system and a position detection system. A user is guided though an environment by monitoring a current position of the eyewear device within the environment, identifying marker positions within a threshold of the current position, the marker positions defined with respect to the environment and associated with guidance markers, registering the marker positions, generating overlay image including the guidance markers, and presenting the overlay image on a display of the eyewear device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Shin Hwun Kang, Dmytro Kucher, Dmytro Hovorov, Ilteris Canberk
  • Publication number: 20210306791
    Abstract: Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for an immersive augmented reality (AR) experience using an eyewear device with spatial audio. The eyewear device has a processor, a memory, an image sensor, and speakers. The eyewear device captures image information for an environment surrounding the device, identifies a match between objects in the image information and predetermined objects in previously obtained information for the same environment. The eyewear device then identifies a target location within the environment, which may be associated with a physical or a virtual object. The eyewear device monitors its orientation with respect to the target location and presents audio signals to guide the user toward the target location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Ilteris Canberk, Shin Hwun Kang, James Powderly
  • Patent number: 11089427
    Abstract: Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for an immersive augmented reality (AR) experience using an eyewear device with spatial audio. The eyewear device has a processor, a memory, an image sensor, and speakers. The eyewear device captures image information for an environment surrounding the device, identifies a match between objects in the image information and predetermined objects in previously obtained information for the same environment. The eyewear device then identifies a target location within the environment, which may be associated with a physical or a virtual object. The eyewear device monitors its orientation with respect to the target location and presents audio signals to guide the user toward the target location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Ilteris Canberk, Shin Hwun Kang, James Powderly