Patents by Inventor Thomas Gordon Brown

Thomas Gordon Brown 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: 9582117
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus related to touch and gesture recognition with an electronic interactive display. The interactive display has a front surface that includes a viewing area, a planar light guide disposed proximate to and behind the front surface, a light source, and at least one photo sensing element coupled with the first planar light guide. The planar light guide is configured to receive scattered light, the received scattered light resulting from interaction between light emitted by the light source and an object in optical contact with the front surface. The photo sensing element is configured to detect at least some of the received scattered light and to output, to a processor, image data. The processor is configured to recognize, from the image data, one or both of a contact pressure and a rotational orientation of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: John Michael Wyrwas, Evgeni Petrovich Gousev, Russell Wayne Gruhlke, Khurshid Syed Alam, Jacek Maitan, Linda Stacey Irish, Evgeni Yurij Poliakov, Thomas Gordon Brown, Samir Kumar Gupta
  • Publication number: 20150309662
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus related to touch and gesture recognition with an electronic interactive display. The interactive display has a front surface that includes a viewing area, a planar light guide disposed proximate to and behind the front surface, a light source, and at least one photo sensing element coupled with the first planar light guide. The planar light guide is configured to receive scattered light, the received scattered light resulting from interaction between light emitted by the light source and an object in optical contact with the front surface. The photo sensing element is configured to detect at least some of the received scattered light and to output, to a processor, image data. The processor is configured to recognize, from the image data, one or both of a contact pressure and a rotational orientation of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Inventors: John Michael Wyrwas, Evgeni Petrovich Gousev, Russell Wayne Gruhlke, Khurshid Syed Alam, Jacek Maitan, Linda Stacey Irish, Evgeni Yurij Poliakov, Thomas Gordon Brown, Samir Kumar Gupta
  • Publication number: 20140146088
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for providing a compact, low-sensor count scanning display that is capable of both displaying graphical content and of capturing images of objects placed on or above the scanning display. Various implementations are discussed, including raster scan, line scan, and compressive sampling version.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: QUALCOMM MEMS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: John Michael Wyrwas, James Chester Meador, Thomas Gordon Brown, Xiquan Cui, Ron Lee Feldman, Russell Wayne Gruhlke, Ying Zhou, Khurshid Syed Alam, Kollengode Subramanian Narayanan