Patents by Inventor Thomas STAUFFER

Thomas STAUFFER 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).

  • Method and finger-worn device for controlling an external computer
    Patent number: 11048328
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a computer program for wireless interactions with an external computer with a finger-worn device configured to acquire and transmit position data of at least one finger relative to an object surface to an external computer, wherein the method comprises the steps of: acquiring (300, 301) sensor data (201, 202) from a first sensor system (9) and a second sensor system (10) comprised in the device (1); estimating (302) a position and/or an orientation of at least one finger (2) with respect to an object surface (7) from the sensor data (201, 202), wherein the estimation (302) of the position and/or the orientation of the at least one finger (2) with respect to the object surface (7) is performed by a machine learning method (100) executed on a processor (4) comprised by the device (1); wirelessly transmitting (304) position data (203) comprising the estimated position and/or orientation of the at least one finger (2) with respect to the subject surface (7) to an external
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: PADRONE AG
    Inventors: Marc Speck, Thomas Stauffer
  • METHOD AND FINGER-WORN DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING AN EXTERNAL COMPUTER
    Publication number: 20210018980
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a computer program for wireless interactions with an external computer with a finger-worn device configured to acquire and transmit position data of at least one finger relative to an object surface to an external computer, wherein the method comprises the steps of: —acquiring (300, 301) sensor data (201, 202) from a first sensor system (9) and a second sensor system (10) comprised in the device (1); —estimating (302) a position and/or an orientation of at least one finger (2) with respect to an object surface (7) from the sensor data (201, 202), wherein the estimation (302) of the position and/or the orientation of the at least one finger (2) with respect to the object surface (7) is performed by a machine learning method (100) executed on a processor (4) comprised by the device (1); —wirelessly transmitting (304) position data (203) comprising the estimated position and/or orientation of the at least one finger (2) with respect to the subject surface (7) to an external
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: PADRONE AG
    Inventors: Marc SPECK, Thomas STAUFFER