Patents by Inventor Timothy Macmillan

Timothy Macmillan 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: 20150254871
    Abstract: A spherical content capture system captures spherical video content. A spherical video sharing platform enables users to share the captured spherical content and enables users to access spherical content shared by other users. In one embodiment, captured metadata or video/audio processing is used to identify content relevant to a particular user based on time and location information. The platform can then generate an output video from one or more shared spherical content files relevant to the user. The output video may include a non-spherical reduced field of view such as those commonly associated with conventional camera systems. Particularly, relevant sub-frames having a reduced field of view may be extracted from each frame of spherical video to generate an output video that tracks a particular individual or object of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventors: Timothy MacMillan, David A. Newman
  • Publication number: 20150256746
    Abstract: A spherical content capture system captures spherical video content. A spherical video sharing platform enables users to share the captured spherical content and enables users to access spherical content shared by other users. In one embodiment, captured metadata or video/audio processing is used to identify content relevant to a particular user based on time and location information. The platform can then generate an output video from one or more shared spherical content files relevant to the user. The output video may include anon-spherical reduced field of view such as those commonly associated with conventional camera systems. Particularly, relevant sub-frames having a reduced field of view may be extracted from each frame of spherical video o generate an output video that tracks a particular individual or object of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventors: Timothy MacMillan, David A. Newman, Balineedu Chowdary Adsumilli, Scott Patrick Campbell
  • Publication number: 20150256808
    Abstract: A spherical content capture system captures spherical video content. A spherical video sharing platform enables users to share the captured spherical content and enables users to access spherical content shared by other users. In one embodiment, captured metadata or video/audio processing is used to identify content relevant to a particular user based on time and location information. The platform can then generate an output video from one or more shared spherical content files relevant to the user. The output video may include a non-spherical reduced field of view such as those commonly associated with conventional camera systems. Particularly, relevant sub-frames having a reduced field of view may be extracted from each frame of spherical video to generate an output video that tracks a particular individual or object of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventors: Timothy MacMillan, David A. Newman, Balineedu Chowdary Adsumilli, Scott Patrick Campbell
  • Patent number: 8988509
    Abstract: A pair of cameras having an overlapping field of view is aligned based on images captured by image sensors of the pair of cameras. A pixel shift is identified between the images. Based on the identified pixel shift, a calibration is applied to one or both of the pair of cameras. To determine the pixel shift, the camera applies correlation methods including edge matching. Calibrating the pair of cameras may include adjusting a read window on an image sensor. The pixel shift can also be used to determine a time lag, which can be used to synchronize subsequent image captures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy Macmillan, Scott Patrick Campbell, David A. Newman, Yajie Sun