Patents by Inventor Steven R. Nichols

Steven R. Nichols 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: 20210390306
    Abstract: An AR system may include a mobile wireless communications device configured to operate an image sensor to generate image data of a book cover from a given book. The AR system may include a server configured to store a database for different books and having book cover images respectively for the different books, and AR data sets respectively for the different books. The server may be configured to receive the image data of the book cover of the given book, and compare the image data with each of the book cover images to determine a matching book cover image and a matching AR data set from the database. The mobile wireless communications device may be configured to receive the matching AR data set from the database, and render, on a display, the image data of the book cover from the given book combined with the matching AR data set and a matching price.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: STEVEN R. NICHOLS, DAVID MORALES, TIMOTHY SANTOR
  • Patent number: 4853839
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for tracking a positioning system for antennas and other devices. Hardware of the invention contains circuitry which when given velocity information, changes its output position information at a specified rate. The hardware may also be triggered to capture a sample of such output position information to provide feedback to the firmware of the invention, which implements a position tracking algorithm. The algorithm utilizes two consecutive input position samples, the time between those samples and the feedback information corresponding to the last position input sample to calculate the velocity to be applied to the position tracking hardware until a new position input sample is available. When the new sample is available, a new velocity is calculated and applied to the hardware and the process is repeated. Between position input samples, the hardware updates the output position to correspond to the motion of the positioning system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 1, 1989
    Assignee: Scientific-Atlanta, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven R. Nichols, Robert C. Hyers, Walter M. Stovall, Charles D. Trawick