Patents by Inventor Tino Soelberg, III

Tino Soelberg, III 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 apparatus for processing gestures
    Patent number: 9409087
    Abstract: A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a processor to perform operations including sensing a gesture performed by an object in a vicinity of a sensor, associating the gesture with the at least one gaming action responsive to determining that the gesture is a new gesture not previously associated with at least one gaming action of a plurality of gaming actions that control presentations produced by a gaming application, sensing by way of the sensor a subsequent instance of the gesture by the object or a different object, obtaining the at least one gaming action associated with the gesture responsive to detecting the subsequent instance of the gesture, and providing the at least one gaming action to the gaming application. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: STEELSERIES ApS
    Inventors: Tino Soelberg, III, Bruce Hawver, Jacob Wolff-Petersen, Jeffrey Nicholas Mahlmeister, Francis Arnold Grever, Kim Rom
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING GESTURES
    Publication number: 20140357370
    Abstract: A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a processor to perform operations including sensing a gesture performed by an object in a vicinity of a sensor, associating the gesture with the at least one gaming action responsive to determining that the gesture is a new gesture not previously associated with at least one gaming action of a plurality of gaming actions that control presentations produced by a gaming application, sensing by way of the sensor a subsequent instance of the gesture by the object or a different object, obtaining the at least one gaming action associated with the gesture responsive to detecting the subsequent instance of the gesture, and providing the at least one gaming action to the gaming application. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Tino Soelberg, III, Bruce Hawver, Jacob Wolff-Petersen, Jeffrey Nicholas Mahlmeister, Francis Arnold Grever, Kim Rom