Patents by Inventor Stuart A. Ross
Stuart A. Ross 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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Patent number: 11967001Abstract: Systems and methods for generating a video of a user-defined virtual reality scene are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: obtain a scene definition; obtain camera information for multiple virtual cameras to be used in generating a two-dimensional presentation of the virtual reality scene; execute a simulation of the virtual reality scene from the scene definition for at least a portion of the scene duration; obtain camera timing instructions specifying which of the virtual cameras should be used to generate the two-dimensional presentation of the virtual reality scene as a function of progress through the scene duration; generate the two-dimensional presentation of the virtual reality scene in accordance with the camera timing instructions and the camera information.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Mindshow Inc.Inventors: Gil Baron, Daniel Andrew Bellezza, Jeffrey Scott Dixon, William Stuart Farquhar, Jason Zesheng Hwang, John Henry Kanikula Peters, Nhan Van Khong, Christopher Robert Laubach, Gregory Scott Pease, Jonathan Michael Ross
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Publication number: 20240046334Abstract: A user registers for an account with an account management system, configures account settings to permit the account management system to receive user computing device data from a user computing device associated with the user, and logs into the account via the user computing device. The account management system receives a user voice purchase command and determines a purchase command context based on the received user computing device data. The account management system identifies a product that the user desires to purchase based on the purchase command context and directs the user computing device web browser to a merchant website to set up a transaction for the identified product.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Filip Verley, IV, Stuart Ross Hobbie
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Patent number: 11891158Abstract: A search and rescue drone system includes a buoyant body member, a frame attached to the buoyant body member for carrying a motor and propeller, and an electronic array including a camera, GPS, an EPIRB radio distress beacon, and a transmitter/receiver for remote control flying the drone and communicating with an operator. A laser guidance system may provide coordinates for landing near a swimmer in distress. The search and rescue drone may also be programmed to simply fly to the location of an electronic wearable device, like a bracelet, that is worn by a man overboard. In another embodiment, the search and rescue drone includes pivoting motor mounts, so that it can take off and land vertically with propellers rotating in a horizontal plane, and then the propellers may pivot to rotate in a vertical plane for propulsion across water similar to a fan boat with rescued people aboard.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Inventors: Thomas Lawrence Moses, Merrill Stuart Ross
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Patent number: 11776043Abstract: A user registers for an account with an account management system, configures account settings to permit the account management system to receive user computing device data from a user computing device associated with the user, and logs into the account via the user computing device. The account management system receives a user voice purchase command and determines a purchase command context based on the received user computing device data. The account management system identifies a product that the user desires to purchase based on the purchase command context and directs the user computing device web browser to a merchant website to set up a transaction for the identified product.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Filip Verley, IV, Stuart Ross Hobbie
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Publication number: 20230150625Abstract: A search and rescue drone system includes a buoyant body member, a frame attached to the buoyant body member for carrying a motor and propeller, and an electronic array including a camera, GPS, an EPIRB radio distress beacon, and a transmitter/receiver for remote control flying the drone and communicating with an operator. A laser guidance system may provide coordinates for landing near a swimmer in distress. The search and rescue drone may also be programmed to simply fly to the location of an electronic wearable device, like a bracelet, that is worn by a man overboard. In another embodiment, the search and rescue drone includes pivoting motor mounts, so that it can take off and land vertically with propellers rotating in a horizontal plane, and then the propellers may pivot to rotate in a vertical plane for propulsion across water similar to a fan boat with rescued people aboard.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2023Publication date: May 18, 2023Inventors: Thomas Lawrence Moses, Merrill Stuart Ross
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Patent number: 11548600Abstract: A search and rescue drone system includes a buoyant body member, a frame attached to the buoyant body member for carrying a motor and propeller, and an electronic array including a camera, GPS, an EPIRB radio distress beacon, and a transmitter/receiver for remote control flying the drone and communicating with an operator. A laser guidance system may provide coordinates for landing near a swimmer in distress. The search and rescue drone may also be programmed to simply fly to the location of an electronic wearable device, like a bracelet, that is worn by a man overboard. In another embodiment, the search and rescue drone includes pivoting motor mounts, so that it can take off and land vertically with propellers rotating in a horizontal plane, and then the propellers may pivot to rotate in a vertical plane for propulsion across water similar to a fan boat with rescued people aboard.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Inventors: Thomas Lawrence Moses, Merrill Stuart Ross
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Publication number: 20220327720Abstract: A method for determining a passing time of an object passing a timing line across a sports track comprises receiving a sequence of time-stamped video frames captured by at least one camera representing pictures of a scene of one or more objects moving along a track; determining depth maps for the sequence of frames comprising information regarding the distance between the one or more objects in the picture of a frame and the camera system; detecting one or more objects using an object detection algorithm; determining a detected object in the frames passing a timing line across a track, the timing line being defined by a virtual plane at a predetermined distance from the camera, the determination of the passing being based on the coordinates of the virtual plane and the depth maps; determining a passing time based on a time stamp of a frame comprising a detected object passing the timing line.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2020Publication date: October 13, 2022Inventors: Adriaan Klaas Verwoerd, Taylor Dalton Host, James Alexander Wilde, King-Hei Fung, Kai Wayne Fong, John Zin Hang Ho, Benjamin Stuart Ross
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Publication number: 20210354795Abstract: A search and rescue drone system includes a buoyant body member, a frame attached to the buoyant body member for carrying a motor and propeller, and an electronic array including a camera, GPS, an EPIRB radio distress beacon, and a transmitter/receiver for remote control flying the drone and communicating with an operator. A laser guidance system may provide coordinates for landing near a swimmer in distress. The search and rescue drone may also be programmed to simply fly to the location of an electronic wearable device, like a bracelet, that is worn by a man overboard. In another embodiment, the search and rescue drone includes pivoting motor mounts, so that it can take off and land vertically with propellers rotating in a horizontal plane, and then the propellers may pivot to rotate in a vertical plane for propulsion across water similar to a fan boat with rescued people aboard.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2021Publication date: November 18, 2021Inventors: Thomas Lawrence Moses, Merrill Stuart Ross
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Publication number: 20210358014Abstract: A user registers for an account with an account management system, configures account settings to permit the account management system to receive user computing device data from a user computing device associated with the user, and logs into the account via the user computing device. The account management system receives a user voice purchase command and determines a purchase command context based on the received user computing device data. The account management system identifies a product that the user desires to purchase based on the purchase command context and directs the user computing device web browser to a merchant website to set up a transaction for the identified product.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2021Publication date: November 18, 2021Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Filip VERLEY, IV, Stuart Ross HOBBIE
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Patent number: 11136096Abstract: A search and rescue drone system includes a buoyant body member, a frame attached to the buoyant body member for carrying a motor and propeller, and an electronic array including a camera, GPS, an EPIRB radio distress beacon, and a transmitter/receiver for remote control flying the drone and communicating with an operator. A laser guidance system may provide coordinates for landing near a swimmer in distress. The search and rescue drone may also be programmed to simply fly to the location of an electronic wearable device, like a bracelet, that is worn by a man overboard. In another embodiment, the search and rescue drone includes pivoting motor mounts, so that it can take off and land vertically with propellers rotating in a horizontal plane, and then the propellers may pivot to rotate in a vertical plane for propulsion across water similar to a fan boat with rescued people aboard.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2019Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Inventors: Thomas Lawrence Moses, Merrill Stuart Ross
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Patent number: 11087379Abstract: A user registers for an account with an account management system, configures account settings to permit the account management system to receive user computing device data from a user computing device associated with the user, and logs into the account via the user computing device. The account management system receives a user voice purchase command and determines a purchase command context based on the received user computing device data. The account management system identifies a product that the user desires to purchase based on the purchase command context and directs the user computing device web browser to a merchant website to set up a transaction for the identified product.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2015Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Filip Verley, IV, Stuart Ross Hobbie
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Patent number: 11031520Abstract: The present disclosure provides methodologies for manufacturing photovoltaic devices. In particular, the disclosure relates to the use of hydrogen during manufacturing of photovoltaic devices for passivating defects in the silicon and addressing light-induced degradation. The methodologies in the present disclosures take advantage of generation and manipulation of hydrogen in the neutral or charged state to optimise defect passivation. Some of the methodologies disclose use thermal treatments, illumination with sub-bandgap photons, electric fields or defects in the silicon to control the state of charge or hydrogen, move hydrogen to different locations in the device or retain hydrogen at specific locations.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2017Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: NEWSOUTH INNOVATIONS PTY LIMITEDInventors: Stuart Ross Wenham, Alison Ciesla, Darren Bagnall, Ran Chen, Malcolm David Abbott, Brett Jason Hallam, Catherine Emily Chan, Chee Mun Chong, Daniel Chen, David Neil Payne, Ly Mai, Moonyong Kim, Tsun Hang Fung, Zhengrong Shi
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Patent number: 10923618Abstract: The present disclosure provides methodologies for manufacturing high efficiency silicon photovoltaic devices using hydrogen passivation to improve performance. The processing techniques disclosed use tailored thermal processes, sometimes coupled with exposure to radiation to enable the use of cheaper silicon material to manufacture high efficiency photovoltaic devices.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2017Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: NEWSOUTH INNOVATIONS PTY LIMITEDInventors: Brett Jason Hallam, Stuart Ross Wenham, Roland Einhaus
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Patent number: 10910509Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method for processing a silicon wafer that allows improving performance by exploiting the properties of crystallographic imperfections. The method comprises the steps of: forming a silicon layer with crystallographic imperfections in the proximity of a surface of the silicon; exposing at least a portion of the device to hydrogen atoms in a manner such that hydrogen atoms migrate towards the region with crystallographic imperfections and into the silicon along the crystallographic imperfections; and controlling the charge state of hydrogen atoms located at the crystallographic imperfections to be positive when the imperfections are in a p-type region of the wafer; and negative when the imperfections are at an n-type region of the wafer by thermally treating the silicon while exposing the silicon to an illumination intensity of less than 10 mW/cm2.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2017Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: NEWSOUTH INNOVATIONS PTY LIMITEDInventors: Alison Ciesla, Brett Jason Hallam, Catherine Emily Chan, Chee Mun Chong, Daniel Chen, Darren Bagnall, David Neil Payne, Ly Mai, Malcolm David Abbott, Moonyong Kim, Ran Chen, Stuart Ross Wenham, Tsun Hang Fung, Zhengrong Shi
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Publication number: 20200317302Abstract: A remotely controlled, self-propelled floating cooler includes a main body member that generally has an ovoid shape, as shown, for streamlined movement through the water. The main body member is generally hollow, which allows for ice, drinks, food, and the like to be placed inside of the main body member through an opening or hatch on top. A lid may be removably secured to the opening on top, and preferably includes securing means for maintaining the lid in a closed position, even in rough water. Remotely controlled propulsion means are attached to an underside of the cooler on one end thereof. Other features include an audio receiver with speakers, port and starboard running lights, GPS navigation, submerged spotlights, and video cameras mounted above and below the waterline, all of which may be operated via a remote control device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2019Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventors: Thomas Lawrence Moses, Merrill Stuart Ross
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Patent number: 10668997Abstract: A search and rescue drone system includes a buoyant body member, a frame attached to the buoyant body member for carrying a motor and propeller, and an electronic array including a camera, GPS, an EPIRB radio distress beacon, and a transmitter/receiver for remote control flying the drone and communicating with an operator. The search and rescue drone may be flown manually, or may have some autonomous flight and locator capabilities. For example, in one embodiment, the search and rescue drone may be programmed to simply fly to the location of an electronic wearable device, like a bracelet, that is worn by a man overboard. In another embodiment, the search and rescue drone includes a basket, harness, or other means for actually recovering a swimmer in distress, and flying that person back to safety on a ship or on shore.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2018Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Inventors: Thomas Lawrence Moses, Merrill Stuart Ross
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Publication number: 20200031438Abstract: A search and rescue drone system includes a buoyant body member, a frame attached to the buoyant body member for carrying a motor and propeller, and an electronic array including a camera, GPS, an EPIRB radio distress beacon, and a transmitter/receiver for remote control flying the drone and communicating with an operator. A laser guidance system may provide coordinates for landing near a swimmer in distress. The search and rescue drone may also be programmed to simply fly to the location of an electronic wearable device, like a bracelet, that is worn by a man overboard. In another embodiment, the search and rescue drone includes pivoting motor mounts, so that it can take off and land vertically with propellers rotating in a horizontal plane, and then the propellers may pivot to rotate in a vertical plane for propulsion across water similar to a fan boat with rescued people aboard.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2019Publication date: January 30, 2020Inventors: Thomas Lawrence Moses, Merrill Stuart Ross
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Publication number: 20200031437Abstract: A search and rescue drone system includes a buoyant body member, a frame attached to the buoyant body member for carrying a motor and propeller, and an electronic array including a camera, GPS, an EPIRB radio distress beacon, and a transmitter/receiver for remote control flying the drone and communicating with an operator. The search and rescue drone may be flown manually, or may have some autonomous flight and locator capabilities. For example, in one embodiment, the search and rescue drone may be programmed to simply fly to the location of an electronic wearable device, like a bracelet, that is worn by a man overboard. In another embodiment, the search and rescue drone includes a basket, harness, or other means for actually recovering a swimmer in distress, and flying that person back to safety on a ship or on shore.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2018Publication date: January 30, 2020Inventors: Thomas Lawrence Moses, Merrill Stuart Ross
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Patent number: 10505069Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method for accelerating the formation of defects in doped silicon. A doped silicon area is exposed with high intensity electromagnetic radiation to provide a substantial excess of majority carriers and promote a high rate of defect formation to allow efficient silicon passivation.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2016Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: NewSouth Innovations Pty LimitedInventors: Brett Jason Hallam, Stuart Ross Wenham, Malcolm David Abbott, Phillip George Hamer
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Publication number: 20190371959Abstract: The present disclosure provides methodologies for manufacturing photovoltaic devices. In particular, the disclosure relates to the use of hydrogen during manufacturing of photovoltaic devices for passivating defects in the silicon and addressing light-induced degradation. The methodologies in the present disclosures take advantage of generation and manipulation of hydrogen in the neutral or charged state to optimise defect passivation. Some of the methodologies disclose use thermal treatments, illumination with sub-bandgap photons, electric fields or defects in the silicon to control the state of charge or hydrogen, move hydrogen to different locations in the device or retain hydrogen at specific locations.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2017Publication date: December 5, 2019Inventors: STUART ROSS WENHAM, ALISON CIESLA, DARREN BAGNALL, RAN CHEN, MALCOLM DAVID ABBOTT, BRETT JASON HALLAM, CATHERINE EMILY CHAN, CHEE MUN CHONG, DANIEL CHEN, DAVID NEIL PAYNE, LY MAI, MOONYONG KIM, TSUN FUNG, ZHENGRONG SHI