Patents by Inventor Stephen Pomes

Stephen Pomes 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: 12241755
    Abstract: Eyewear having a light array and vibration sensors for indicating to a user when to turn left and right, such as when the eyewear is operating a navigation map application, that improves the user experience of eyewear devices for users having partial blindness or complete blindness. To compensate for partial blindness, the front portion of the eyewear frame, such as the bridge, may include the light array, where the left portion of the light array is illuminated to indicate to the user to turn left. The right portion of the light array is illuminated to indicate to the user to turn right. To compensate for complete users having complete blindness, the eyewear has a vibration device on each side of the eyewear, such as in the temples, which selectively vibrate to indicate when the user should turn left and right.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Pomes, Yu Jiang Tham
  • Publication number: 20240110807
    Abstract: Eyewear having a light array and vibration sensors for indicating to a user when to turn left and right, such as when the eyewear is operating a navigation map application, that improves the user experience of eyewear devices for users having partial blindness or complete blindness. To compensate for partial blindness, the front portion of the eyewear frame, such as the bridge, may include the light array, where the left portion of the light array is illuminated to indicate to the user to turn left. The right portion of the light array is illuminated to indicate to the user to turn right. To compensate for complete users having complete blindness, the eyewear has a vibration device on each side of the eyewear, such as in the temples, which selectively vibrate to indicate when the user should turn left and right.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Stephen Pomes, Yu Jiang Tham
  • Publication number: 20240014668
    Abstract: A closed loop control system actively regulates the battery current paths of physically separated circuits so that the current is approximately the same for each of the circuits regardless of the various system loads. The closed loop control system modulates the current paths by either modulating a high side transistor used to independently limit each battery's current path or by modulating a DC/DC converter's output voltage to independently boost each battery's current path. The closed loop control system is also designed to handle undervoltage lockout (UVLO) situations when one of the batteries is nearing empty to tilt the power balance in the chance that there is an existing battery charge mismatch to support system load bursts and to turn off the circuit when the system current draw is exceptionally low. A tilting circuit also identifies and discharges the battery with the higher charge until the charge states are substantially equal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Shaheen Moubedi, Gerald Nilles, Stephen Pomes
  • Patent number: 11852500
    Abstract: Eyewear having a light array and vibration sensors for indicating to a user when to turn left and right, such as when the eyewear is operating a navigation map application, that improves the user experience of eyewear devices for user's having partial blindness or complete blindness. To compensate for partial blindness, the front portion of the eyewear frame, such as the bridge, may include the light array, where the left portion of the light array is illuminated to indicate to the user to turn left. The right portion of the light array is illuminated to indicate to the user to turn right. To compensate for complete user's having complete blindness, the eyewear has a vibration device on each side of the eyewear, such as in the temples, which selectively vibrate to indicate when the user should turn left and right.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Pomes, Yu Jiang Tham
  • Patent number: 11830494
    Abstract: An eyewear device with camera-based compensation that improves the user experience for user's having partial blindness or complete blindness. The camera-based compensation determines features, such as objects, and then converts the determined objects to audio that is indicative of the objects and that is perceptible to the eyewear user. The camera-based compensation may use a region-based convolutional neural network (RCNN) to generate a feature map including text that is indicative of objects in images captured by a camera. The feature map is then processed through a speech to audio algorithm featuring a natural language processor to generate audio indicative of the objects in the processed images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Pomes
  • Publication number: 20230350506
    Abstract: Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for selectively activating and suspending control of a graphical user interface by two or more electronic devices. A portable eyewear device includes a display projected onto at least one lens assembly and a primary touchpad through which the user may access a graphical user interface (GUI) on the display. A handheld accessory device, such as a ring, includes an auxiliary touchpad that is configured to emulate the primary touchpad. The eyewear processor temporarily suspends inputs from one touchpad when it detects an activation signal from the other touchpad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Yu Jiang Tham, Stephen Pomes, Jonathan M. Rodriguez, II, Nir Daube
  • Patent number: 11783582
    Abstract: An eyewear device with camera-based compensation that improves the user experience for user's having partial blindness or complete blindness. The camera-based compensation determines objects, converts determined objects to text, and then converts the text to audio that is indicative of the objects and that is perceptible to the eyewear user. The camera-based compensation may use a region-based convolutional neural network (RCNN) to generate a feature map including text that is indicative of objects in images captured by a camera. Relevant text of the feature map is then processed through a text to speech algorithm featuring a natural language processor to generate audio indicative of the objects in the processed images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Pomes
  • Patent number: 11774764
    Abstract: An eyewear device that adjusts aspects of a displayed object as a function of a user's eyeglass prescription. A detector identifies object edges for displayed far objects. A correction chart stores brightness corrections as a function of eyeglass prescriptions. The object edges are brightened as a function of the brightness corrections to sharpen objects displayed for a user with nearsightedness and/or farsightedness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Pomes
  • Patent number: 11733789
    Abstract: Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for selectively activating and suspending control of a graphical user interface by two or more electronic devices. A portable eyewear device includes a display projected onto at least one lens assembly and a primary touchpad through which the user may access a graphical user interface (GUI) on the display. A handheld accessory device, such as a ring, includes an auxiliary touchpad that is configured to emulate the primary touchpad. The eyewear processor temporarily suspends inputs from one touchpad when it detects an activation signal from the other touchpad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Yu Jiang Tham, Stephen Pomes, Jonathan M. Rodriguez, II, Nir Daube
  • Patent number: 11675217
    Abstract: Eyewear having a light array and vibration sensors for indicating to a user the direction and distance of an object relative to the eyewear to help a user understand and avoid objects. To compensate for partial blindness, the front portion of the eyewear frame may include the light array, where one or more lights of the light array is illuminated to indicate a corresponding direction of a proximate object. The relative brightness of the one or more lights indicates how close the object is, where brighter light(s) indicates a close object. To compensate for more severe partial blindness or complete blindness, the eyewear has haptics, such as a plurality of vibration devices on the front portion of the eyewear, such as in the bridge, which selectively vibrate to indicate a direction of the object. The stronger the vibration, the closer the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Pomes, Yu Jiang Tham
  • Publication number: 20230118063
    Abstract: An eyewear device with camera-based compensation that improves the user experience for user’s having partial blindness or complete blindness. The camera-based compensation determines features, such as objects, and then converts the determined objects to audio that is indicative of the objects and that is perceptible to the eyewear user. The camera-based compensation may use a region-based convolutional neural network (RCNN) to generate a feature map including text that is indicative of objects in images captured by a camera. The feature map is then processed through a speech to audio algorithm featuring a natural language processor to generate audio indicative of the objects in the processed images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventor: Stephen Pomes
  • Publication number: 20230020122
    Abstract: An eyewear device that adjusts aspects of a displayed object as a function of a user's eyeglass prescription. A detector identifies object edges for displayed far objects. A correction chart stores brightness corrections as a function of eyeglass prescriptions. The object edges are brightened as a function of the brightness corrections to sharpen objects displayed for a user with nearsightedness and/or farsightedness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventor: Stephen Pomes
  • Patent number: 11551688
    Abstract: An eyewear device with camera-based compensation that improves the user experience for user's having partial blindness or complete blindness. The camera-based compensation determines features, such as objects, and then converts the determined objects to audio that is indicative of the objects and that is perceptible to the eyewear user. The camera-based compensation may use a region-based convolutional neural network (RCNN) to generate a feature map including text that is indicative of objects in images captured by a camera. The feature map is then processed through a speech to audio algorithm featuring a natural language processor to generate audio indicative of the objects in the processed images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Pomes
  • Patent number: 11506902
    Abstract: An eyewear device that adjusts aspects of a displayed object as a function of a user's eyeglass prescription. A detector identifies object edges for displayed far objects. A correction chart stores brightness corrections as a function of eyeglass prescriptions. The object edges are brightened as a function of the brightness corrections to sharpen objects displayed for a user with nearsightedness and/or farsightedness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Pomes
  • Publication number: 20220366690
    Abstract: An eyewear device with camera-based compensation that improves the user experience for user's having partial blindness or complete blindness. The camera-based compensation determines objects, converts determined objects to text, and then converts the text to audio that is indicative of the objects and that is perceptible to the eyewear user. The camera-based compensation may use a region-based convolutional neural network (RCNN) to generate a feature map including text that is indicative of objects in images captured by a camera. Relevant text of the feature map is then processed through a text to speech algorithm featuring a natural language processor to generate audio indicative of the objects in the processed images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventor: Stephen Pomes
  • Patent number: 11455796
    Abstract: An eyewear device with camera-based compensation that improves the user experience for user's having partial blindness or complete blindness. The camera-based compensation determines objects, converts determined objects to text, and then converts the text to audio that is indicative of the objects and that is perceptible to the eyewear user. The camera-based compensation may use a region-based convolutional neural network (RCNN) to generate a feature map including text that is indicative of objects in images captured by a camera. Relevant text of the feature map is then processed through a text to speech algorithm featuring a natural language processor to generate audio indicative of the objects in the processed images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Pomes
  • Publication number: 20220082867
    Abstract: Eyewear having a light array and vibration sensors for indicating to a user the direction and distance of an object relative to the eyewear to help a user understand and avoid objects. To compensate for partial blindness, the front portion of the eyewear frame may include the light array, where one or more lights of the light array is illuminated to indicate a corresponding direction of a proximate object. The relative brightness of the one or more lights indicates how close the object is, where brighter light(s) indicates a close object. To compensate for more severe partial blindness or complete blindness, the eyewear has haptics, such as a plurality of vibration devices on the front portion of the eyewear, such as in the bridge, which selectively vibrate to indicate a direction of the object. The stronger the vibration, the closer the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Stephen Pomes, Yu Jiang THAM
  • Patent number: 11215846
    Abstract: Eyewear having a light array and vibration sensors for indicating to a user the direction and distance of an object relative to the eyewear to help a user understand and avoid objects. To compensate for partial blindness, the front portion of the eyewear frame may include the light array, where one or more lights of the light array is illuminated to indicate a corresponding direction of a proximate object. The relative brightness of the one or more lights indicates how close the object is, where brighter light(s) indicates a close object. To compensate for more severe partial blindness or complete blindness, the eyewear has haptics, such as a plurality of vibration devices on the front portion of the eyewear, such as in the bridge, which selectively vibrate to indicate a direction of the object. The stronger the vibration, the closer the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Pomes, Yu Jiang Tham
  • Publication number: 20210397007
    Abstract: An eyewear device that adjusts aspects of a displayed object as a function of a user's eyeglass prescription. A detector identifies object edges for displayed far objects. A correction chart stores brightness corrections as a function of eyeglass prescriptions. The object edges are brightened as a function of the brightness corrections to sharpen objects displayed for a user with nearsightedness and/or farsightedness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventor: Stephen Pomes
  • Patent number: 11112609
    Abstract: An eyewear device that adjusts aspects of a displayed object as a function of a user's eyeglass prescription. A detector identifies object edges for displayed far objects. A correction chart stores brightness corrections as a function of eyeglass prescriptions. The object edges are brightened as a function of the brightness corrections to sharpen objects displayed for a user with nearsightedness and/or farsightedness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Pomes