Patents by Inventor Simon Saito Haagen Nielsen
Simon Saito Haagen Nielsen 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).
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Publication number: 20240118598Abstract: A system including a drone having a projector to project an image from a projection origin. The drone also has a navigation unit to determine location information for the drone. A processor coupled to the drone includes a memory. Execution of programming by the processor configures the system to obtain a projection surface architecture for a projection surface. The projection surface architecture includes reference points that correspond to physical locations on the projection surface. Each reference point is associated with relationship data with respect to an architecture origin. The system also receives location information for the drone, adapts the relationship data responsive to change in the location information, adjusts the image using the adapted relationship data, and projects the adjusted image onto the projection surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Simon Saito Haagen Nielsen, Zachary Collins Conatser
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Patent number: 11922685Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for presenting information in the sky using drones are disclosed. The presentation of information includes navigating one or more drones to locations in the sky where the locations are associated with an image, emitting light signals at the locations, capturing the light signals with a user device, processing the captured signals to identify the image, capturing a background image including at least one of the locations associated with the image, and presenting simultaneously, on the user device, the identified image and the background image.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: SNAP INC.Inventors: Simon Saito Haagen Nielsen, Zachary Collins Conatser
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Patent number: 11852960Abstract: A system including a drone having a projector to project an image from a projection origin. The drone also has a navigation unit to determine location information for the drone. A processor coupled to the drone includes a memory. Execution of programming by the processor configures the system to obtain a projection surface architecture for a projection surface. The projection surface architecture includes reference points that correspond to physical locations on the projection surface. Each reference point is associated with relationship data with respect to an architecture origin. The system also receives location information for the drone, adapts the relationship data responsive to change in the location information, adjusts the image using the adapted relationship data, and projects the adjusted image onto the projection surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Simon Saito Haagen Nielsen, Zachary Collins Conatser
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Patent number: 11822346Abstract: Detection of a launch event of an autonomous vehicle may consider input from a variety of sensors, including acceleration sensors and touch sensors In some aspects, a method includes receiving a first input from a touch sensor, receiving a second input from an accelerometer, determining whether a launch of the autonomous vehicle is detected based on the first input and the second input, and controlling the autonomous vehicle in response to the determining. In some aspects, when a launch is detected, a motor of the autonomous vehicle may be energized. By detecting a launch event in this manner, improved safety and reliability may be realized. A reduced occurrence of false positive launch events may reduce a risk that the motor of the autonomous vehicle is energized when the vehicle has not actually been launched.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2019Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Qiaokun Huang, Simon Saito Haagen Nielsen
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Publication number: 20230111932Abstract: A method for controlling movement of a drone is disclosed. A spatial vector between a flight-capable drone and a reference object is computed. The spatial vector defines a direction and a distance by which the drone is spaced from the reference object. Flightpath attributes based on the computed vector are determined. The flightpath attributes include one or more of a flight direction, a flight distance, and a flight speed. The flight direction is variable as a function of the direction of the spatial vector. The flight distance is variable as a function of the distance of the spatial vector. The flight speed is variable as a function of the distance of the spatial vector.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2022Publication date: April 13, 2023Inventors: Simon Saito Haagen Nielsen, David Meisenholder
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Publication number: 20230059272Abstract: There is a remote control device or drone, which has software and a combination of lights or LED on an lighting ring or apparatus that can move independently of the drone; the drone can be programmed or be reactive to sound or other stimulus to create the effect of writing shapes or words in the air and typically at nighttime against a dark sky.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Inventors: Simon Saito Haagen Nielsen, Samy Kamkar
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Publication number: 20220415041Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for presenting information in the sky using drones are disclosed. The presentation of information includes navigating one or more drones to locations in the sky where the locations are associated with an image, emitting light signals at the locations, capturing the light signals with a user device, processing the captured signals to identify the image, capturing a background image including at least one of the locations associated with the image, and presenting simultaneously, on the user device, the identified image and the background image.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventors: Simon Saito Haagen Nielsen, Zachary Collins Conatser
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Patent number: 11531357Abstract: A method for controlling movement of a drone is disclosed. A spatial vector between a flight-capable drone and a reference object is computed. The spatial vector defines a direction and a distance by which the drone is spaced from the reference object. Flightpath attributes based on the computed vector are determined. The flightpath attributes include one or more of a flight direction, a flight distance, and a flight speed. The flight direction is variable as a function of the direction of the spatial vector. The flight distance is variable as a function of the distance of the spatial vector. The flight speed is variable as a function of the distance of the spatial vector. In an automated operation, movement of the drone is controlled according to the determined flightpath attributes.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Simon Saito Haagen Nielsen, David Meisenholder
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Publication number: 20220357641Abstract: A system including a drone having a projector to project an image from a projection origin. The drone also has a navigation unit to determine location information for the drone. A processor coupled to the drone includes a memory. Execution of programming by the processor configures the system to obtain a projection surface architecture for a projection surface. The projection surface architecture includes reference points that correspond to physical locations on the projection surface. Each reference point is associated with relationship data with respect to an architecture origin. The system also receives location information for the drone, adapts the relationship data responsive to change in the location information, adjusts the image using the adapted relationship data, and projects the adjusted image onto the projection surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2022Publication date: November 10, 2022Inventors: Simon Saito Haagen Nielsen, Zachary Collins Conatser
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Patent number: 11481997Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for presenting information in the sky using drones are disclosed. The presentation of information includes navigating one or more drones to locations in the sky where the locations are associated with an image, emitting light signals at the locations, capturing the light signals with a user device, processing the captured signals to identify the image, capturing a background image including at least one of the locations associated with the image, and presenting simultaneously, on the user device, the identified image and the background image.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2019Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Simon Saito Haagen Nielsen, Zachary Collins Conatser
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Patent number: 11435656Abstract: A system including a drone having a projector to project an image from a projection origin. The drone also has a navigation unit to determine location information for the drone. A processor coupled to the drone includes a memory. Execution of programming by the processor configures the system to obtain a projection surface architecture for a projection surface. The projection surface architecture includes reference points that correspond to physical locations on the projection surface. Each reference point is associated with relationship data with respect to an architecture origin. The system also receives location information for the drone, adapts the relationship data responsive to change in the location information, adjusts the image using the adapted relationship data, and projects the adjusted image onto the projection surface.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2019Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Simon Saito Haagen Nielsen, Zachary Collins Conatser
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Publication number: 20220277655Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for drone pairing are disclosed. Drones may be paired by configuring each of a first drone and a second drone in a drone pairing mode, establishing physical contact between the first drone and the second drone while in the drone pairing mode, determining an acceleration parameter for each of the first drone and the second drone related to the physical contact between the first drone and the second drone, comparing the determined acceleration parameter of the first drone and the determined acceleration parameter of the second drone to identify a match, and pairing the first drone and the second drone in response to the identified match between the compared acceleration parameters of the first and second drones.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2022Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventors: Simon Saito Haagen Nielsen, Zachary Collins Conatser
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Publication number: 20220270277Abstract: A method and system for creating a point cloud are disclosed. A first image is captured by a first camera sensor and a second image is captured by a second camera sensor. The first and the second image have an area of overlap. Location of the first camera relative to the second camera is predetermined and each of the first and the second camera is having a field of view of more than 180 degrees. Based on the area of overlap, the first and the second image are stitched to create a composite stitched image. In one aspect, depth information from the area of overlap is extracted based on the predetermined location and a point cloud is created from otherwise to be discarded image data in the area of overlap.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2022Publication date: August 25, 2022Inventors: Simon Saito Haagen Nielsen, John Christopher Collins, Allan Josheph Evans, Graham Shaw, Vikas Gupta
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Patent number: 11373538Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for drone pairing are disclosed. Drones may be paired by configuring each of a first drone and a second drone in a drone pairing mode, establishing physical contact between the first drone and the second drone while in the drone pairing mode, determining an acceleration parameter for each of the first drone and the second drone related to the physical contact between the first drone and the second drone, comparing the determined acceleration parameter of the first drone and the determined acceleration parameter of the second drone to identify a match, and pairing the first drone and the second drone in response to the identified match between the compared acceleration parameters of the first and second drones.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2019Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Simon Saito Haagen Nielsen, Zachary Collins Conatser
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Patent number: 11348265Abstract: A method and system for creating a point cloud are disclosed. A first image is captured by a first camera sensor and a second image is captured by a second camera sensor. The first and the second image have an area of overlap. Location of the first camera relative to the second camera is predetermined and each of the first and the second camera is having a field of view of more than 180 degrees. Based on the area of overlap, the first and the second image are stitched to create a composite stitched image. In one aspect, depth information from the area of overlap is extracted based on the predetermined location and a point cloud is created from otherwise to be discarded image data in the area of overlap.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2018Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Snap Inc.Inventors: Simon Saito Haagen Nielsen, John Christopher Collins, Allan Joseph Evans, Graham Shaw, Vikas Gupta