Patents by Inventor Todd Omotani

Todd Omotani 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: 20240100950
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, a system for presenting content can comprise at least one sensor; a display configured to present a graphical user interface (GUI); at least one processor in communication with the at least one sensor, the display, and memory containing instructions that, when executed, cause the at least one processor to: determining whether an accessory is detected by the at least one sensor; and in response to determining that the accessory is not detected, presenting first content on the display; or in response to determining that the accessory is detected, presenting second content on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Chip Alexander, Todd Omotani, Wyatt Coe
  • Patent number: 11884157
    Abstract: An apparatus and methods for rotating a console display device of a vehicle are disclosed. The apparatus includes a display device; a rotation mechanism connected to the display device and configured to rotate the display device between a portrait orientation and a landscape orientation; a touch bar having at least one button; and a memory storing instructions. The instructions include receiving a request from a user via the touch bar to rotate the display device from the portrait orientation to the landscape orientation; sending a message to the user via the display device providing a time for the user to cancel the request; executing, via the rotation mechanism, a rotation of the display device from the portrait orientation to the landscape orientation after the provided time to cancel the request elapses; and sending a signal to disable vehicle movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Fisker Inc.
    Inventors: Henrik Fisker, Todd Omotani, Nadya Arnaout
  • Publication number: 20230001792
    Abstract: An apparatus and methods for rotating a console display device of a vehicle are disclosed. The apparatus includes a display device; a rotation mechanism connected to the display device and configured to rotate the display device between a portrait orientation and a landscape orientation; a touch bar having at least one button; and a memory storing instructions. The instructions include receiving a request from a user via the touch bar to rotate the display device from the portrait orientation to the landscape orientation; sending a message to the user via the display device providing a time for the user to cancel the request; executing, via the rotation mechanism, a rotation of the display device from the portrait orientation to the landscape orientation after the provided time to cancel the request elapses: and sending a signal to disable vehicle movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: FISKER INC.
    Inventors: Henrik FISKER, Todd OMOTANI, Nadya ARNAOUT
  • Publication number: 20220348079
    Abstract: An apparatus and methods for rotating a console display device of a vehicle are disclosed. The apparatus includes a display device; a rotation mechanism connected to the display device and configured to rotate the display device between a portrait orientation and a landscape orientation; a touch bar having at least one button; and a memory storing instructions. The instructions include receiving a request from a user via the touch bar to rotate the display device from the portrait orientation to the landscape orientation; sending a message to the user via the display device providing a time for the user to cancel the request; executing, via the rotation mechanism, a rotation of the display device from the portrait orientation to the landscape orientation after the provided time to cancel the request elapses; and sending a signal to disable vehicle movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: FISKER INC.
    Inventors: Henrik FISKER, Todd OMOTANI, Nadya ARNAOUT
  • Patent number: 11467939
    Abstract: A computer implemented method includes recording data representative of a user experience sensed by a mixed reality device during a mixed reality experience of a user in a space, processing the recorded data to infer one or more actions performed by the user in the space during the mixed reality experience, and creating an augmented replay of the mixed reality experience based on the recorded data and inferred actions performed by the user during the mixed reality experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Erik A. Hill, Jonathan Gustav Paulovich, Michael William Schultz, Dylan Edmund Pierpont, Gabriel Robert Maricich, Charles L. Harrison, Todd A Omotani, Kathleen Carol Heasley
  • Patent number: 11465502
    Abstract: An apparatus and methods for rotating a console display device of a vehicle are disclosed. The apparatus includes a display device; a rotation mechanism connected to the display device and configured to rotate the display device between a portrait orientation and a landscape orientation; a touch bar having at least one button; and a memory storing instructions. The instructions include receiving a request from a user via the touch bar to rotate the display device from the portrait orientation to the landscape orientation; sending a message to the user via the display device providing a time for the user to cancel the request; executing, via the rotation mechanism, a rotation of the display device from the portrait orientation to the landscape orientation after the provided time to cancel the request elapses: and sending a signal to disable vehicle movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Fisker Inc.
    Inventors: Henrik Fisker, Todd Omotani, Nadya Arnaout
  • Patent number: 11220182
    Abstract: An apparatus and methods for rotating a console display device of a vehicle are disclosed. The apparatus includes a display device; a rotation mechanism connected to the display device and configured to rotate the display device between a portrait orientation and a landscape orientation; a touch bar having at least one button; and a memory storing instructions. The instructions include receiving a request from a user via the touch bar to rotate the display device from the portrait orientation to the landscape orientation; sending a message to the user via the display device providing a time for the user to cancel the request; executing, via the rotation mechanism, a rotation of the display device from the portrait orientation to the landscape orientation after the provided time to cancel the request elapses; and sending a signal to disable vehicle movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Fisker Inc.
    Inventors: Henrik Fisker, Todd Omotani, Nadya Arnaout
  • Publication number: 20210397533
    Abstract: A computer implemented method includes recording data representative of a user experience sensed by a mixed reality device during a mixed reality experience of a user in a space, processing the recorded data to infer one or more actions performed by the user in the space during the mixed reality experience, and creating an augmented replay of the mixed reality experience based on the recorded data and inferred actions performed by the user during the mixed reality experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Erik A. Hill, Jonathan Gustav Paulovich, Michael William Schultz, Dylan Edmund Pierpont, Gabriel Robert Maricich, Charles L. Harrison, Todd A. Omotani, Kathleen Carol Heasley
  • Patent number: 9710130
    Abstract: A user input for a near-eye, see-through display device is disclosed. Hands-free user input in an augmented reality environment is provided for. A user can provide input by moving the orientation of their head. For example, the user could rotate their head. In one aspect, a user can provide input by moving their eye gaze along a direction. In one aspect, when the user directs their attention at a user interface symbol, a handle extends away from the user interface symbol. The handle may serve as a type of selection device such that if the user directs their attention along the handle, away from the user interface symbol, a selection can be made. “As one example, the selection causes a spoke menu to appear which the user can select by rotating their head such that the system determines the user is looking along the spoke away from a central hub.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Kathleen Mulcahy, Aaron Burns, Todd Omotani, Felicia Williams, Jeff Cole, Tim Psiaki
  • Patent number: 9508195
    Abstract: Methods for managing content within an interactive augmented reality environment are described. An augmented reality environment may be provided to an end user of a head-mounted display device (HMD) in which content (e.g., webpages) may be displayed to the end user using one or more curved slates that are positioned on a virtual cylinder that appears body-locked to the end user. The virtual cylinder may be located around the end user with the end user positioned in the middle of the virtual cylinder such that the one or more curved slates appear to be displayed at the same distance from the end user. The position and size of each of the one or more curved slates may be controlled by the end user using head gestures and a virtual pointer projected onto the virtual cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Van Den Heuvel, Ken Ouellette, Ben Sugden, Todd Omotani, Marcus Tanner, Greg Alt, Michael Hale, Jeff Sutherland
  • Publication number: 20160063762
    Abstract: Methods for managing content within an interactive augmented reality environment are described. An augmented reality environment may be provided to an end user of a head-mounted display device (HMD) in which content (e.g., webpages) may be displayed to the end user using one or more curved slates that are positioned on a virtual cylinder that appears body-locked to the end user. The virtual cylinder may be located around the end user with the end user positioned in the middle of the virtual cylinder such that the one or more curved slates appear to be displayed at the same distance from the end user. The position and size of each of the one or more curved slates may be controlled by the end user using head gestures and a virtual pointer projected onto the virtual cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Joseph Van Den Heuvel, Ken Ouellette, Ben Sugden, Todd Omotani, Marcus Tanner, Greg Alt, Michael Hale, Jeff Sutherland
  • Publication number: 20140372944
    Abstract: A user input for a near-eye, see-through display device is disclosed. Hands-free user input in an augmented reality environment is provided for. A user can provide input by moving the orientation of their head. For example, the user could rotate their head. In one aspect, a user can provide input by moving their eye gaze along a direction. In one aspect, when the user directs their attention at a user interface symbol, a handle extends away from the user interface symbol. The handle may serve as a type of selection device such that if the user directs their attention along the handle, away from the user interface symbol, a selection can be made. “As one example, the selection causes a spoke menu to appear which the user can select by rotating their head such that the system determines the user is looking along the spoke away from a central hub.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Kathleen Mulcahy, Aaron Burns, Todd Omotani, Felicia Williams, Jeff Cole, Tim Psiaki