Patents by Inventor Victor Ng
Victor Ng 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).
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Publication number: 20240096038Abstract: Systems and methods for matching content elements to surfaces in a spatially organized 3D environment. The method includes receiving content, identifying one or more elements in the content, determining one or more surfaces, matching the one or more elements to the one or more surfaces, and displaying the one or more elements as virtual content onto the one or more surfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: MAGIC LEAP, INC.Inventors: Denys Bastov, Victor Ng-Thow-Hing, Benjamin Zaaron Reinhardt, Leonid Zolotarev, Yannick Pellet, Aleksei Marchenko, Brian Everett Meaney, Marc Coleman Shelton, Megan Ann Geiman, John A. Gotcher, Matthew Schon Bogue, Shivakumar Balasubramanyam, Jeffrey Edward Ruediger, David Charles Lundmark
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Publication number: 20240094233Abstract: The present invention relates to methods, devices and systems for associating consumable data with an assay consumable used in a biological assay. Provided are assay systems and associated consumables, wherein the assay system adjusts one or more steps of an assay protocol based on consumable data specific for that consumable. Various types of consumable data are described, as well as methods of using such data in the conduct of an assay by an assay system. The present invention also relates to consumables (e.g., kits and reagent containers), software, data deployable bundles, computer-readable media, loading carts, instruments, systems, and methods, for performing automated biological assays.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Jacob N. WOHLSTADTER, Manish KOCHAR, Peter J. BOSCO, Ian D. CHAMBERLIN, Bandele JEFFREY-COKER, Eric M. JONES, Gary I. KRIVOY, Don E. KRUEGER, Aaron H. LEIMKUEHLER, Pei-Ming WU, Kim-Xuan NGUYEN, Pankaj OBEROI, Louis W. PANG, Jennifer PARKER, Victor PELLICIER, Nicholas SAMMONS, George SIGAL, Michael L. VOCK, Stanley T. SMITH, Carl C. STEVENS, Rodger D. OSBORNE, Kenneth E. PAGE, Michael T. WADE, Jon WILLOUGHBY, Lei WANG, Xinri CONG, Kin NG
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Patent number: 11875466Abstract: Systems and methods for matching content elements to surfaces in a spatially organized 3D environment. The method includes receiving content, identifying one or more elements in the content, determining one or more surfaces, matching the one or more elements to the one or more surfaces, and displaying the one or more elements as virtual content onto the one or more surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Inventors: Denys Bastov, Victor Ng-Thow-Hing, Benjamin Zaaron Reinhardt, Leonid Zolotarev, Yannick Pellet, Aleksei Marchenko, Brian Everett Meaney, Marc Coleman Shelton, Megan Ann Geiman, John A. Gotcher, Matthew Schon Bogue, Shivakumar Balasubramanyam, Jeffrey Edward Ruediger, David Charles Lundmark
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Patent number: 11854152Abstract: Wearable systems for privacy preserving expression generation for augmented or virtual reality client applications. An example method includes receiving, by an expression manager configured to communicate expression information to client applications, a request from a client application for access to the expression information. The expression information reflects information derived from one or more sensors of the wearable system, with the client application being configured to present virtual content including an avatar rendered based on the expression information. A user interface is output for presentation which requests user authorization for the client application to access the expression information. In response to receiving user input indicating user authorization, enabling access to the expression information is enabled. The client application obtains periodic updates to the expression information, and the avatar is rendered based on the periodic updates.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2023Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventors: Tomislav Pejsa, Dushan Vasilevski, Victor Ng-Thow-Hing, Koichi Mori
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Patent number: 11797105Abstract: Examples of systems and methods for improved hand tracking of a user in a mixed reality environment are disclosed. The systems and methods may be configured to estimate the hand pose and shape of a user's hands for applications such as animating a hand on a user's avatar. Data from multiple sources, such as a totem internal measurement unit (“IMU”), external totem location tracking, vision cameras, and depth sensors, may be manipulated using a set of rules that are based on historical data, ergonomics data, and motion data.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2022Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventors: Federico Schliemann, Francisco Lopez-Fresquet, Victor Ng-Thow-Hing, Tomislav Pejsa
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Publication number: 20230290031Abstract: Examples of systems and methods for rendering an avatar in a mixed reality environment are disclosed. The systems and methods may be configured to automatically scale an avatar or to render an avatar based on a determined intention of a user, an interesting impulse, environmental stimuli, or user saccade points. The disclosed systems and methods may apply discomfort curves when rendering an avatar. The disclosed systems and methods may provide a more realistic interaction between a human user and an avatar.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2023Publication date: September 14, 2023Inventors: Thomas Marshall Miller, IV, Josh Anon, Frank Alexander Hamilton, IV, Cole Parker Heiner, Victor Ng-Thow-Hing, Rodrigo Cano, Karen Stolzenberg, Lorena Pazmino, Gregory Minh Tran, Stephane Antoine Joseph Imbert, Anthony Marinello
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Publication number: 20230290096Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that progressively capture data representing an actual appearance of a user for creating a 3D avatar of the user. Image sensors at a user's electronic device may capture images (or other sensor data) of different portions of a user's body over time. Images and other sensor data that is captured initially or at a given time may not represent all of the user's body. Thus, in some implementations, the progressively captured data provides representations of additional portions of the user's 3D avatar over time.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2023Publication date: September 14, 2023Inventors: Victor Ng-Thow Hing, Timothy B. Henning
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Patent number: 11699255Abstract: Examples of systems and methods for rendering an avatar in a mixed reality environment are disclosed. The systems and methods may be configured to automatically scale an avatar or to render an avatar based on a determined intention of a user, an interesting impulse, environmental stimuli, or user saccade points. The disclosed systems and methods may apply discomfort curves when rendering an avatar. The disclosed systems and methods may provide a more realistic interaction between a human user and an avatar.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2022Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Marshall Miller, IV, Josh Anon, Frank Alexander Hamilton, IV, Cole Parker Heiner, Victor Ng-Thow-Hing, Rodrigo Cano, Karen Stolzenberg, Lorena Pazmino, Gregory Minh Tran, Stephane Antoine Joseph Imbert, Anthony Marinello
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Publication number: 20230177785Abstract: Wearable systems for privacy preserving expression generation for augmented or virtual reality client applications. An example method includes receiving, by an expression manager configured to communicate expression information to client applications, a request from a client application for access to the expression information. The expression information reflects information derived from one or more sensors of the wearable system, with the client application being configured to present virtual content including an avatar rendered based on the expression information. A user interface is output for presentation which requests user authorization for the client application to access the expression information. In response to receiving user input indicating user authorization, enabling access to the expression information is enabled. The client application obtains periodic updates to the expression information, and the avatar is rendered based on the periodic updates.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2023Publication date: June 8, 2023Inventors: Tomislav Pejsa, Dushan Vasilevski, Victor Ng-Thow-Hing, Koichi Mori
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Patent number: 11568610Abstract: Wearable systems for privacy preserving expression generation for augmented or virtual reality client applications. An example method includes receiving, by an expression manager configured to communicate expression information to client applications, a request from a client application for access to the expression information. The expression information reflects information derived from one or more sensors of the wearable system, with the client application being configured to present virtual content including an avatar rendered based on the expression information. A user interface is output for presentation which requests user authorization for the client application to access the expression information. In response to receiving user input indicating user authorization, enabling access to the expression information is enabled. The client application obtains periodic updates to the expression information, and the avatar is rendered based on the periodic updates.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventors: Tomislav Pejsa, Dushan Vasilevski, Victor Ng-Thow-Hing, Koichi Mori
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Publication number: 20230016341Abstract: Examples of systems and methods for improved hand tracking of a user in a mixed reality environment are disclosed. The systems and methods may be configured to estimate the hand pose and shape of a user's hands for applications such as animating a hand on a user's avatar. Data from multiple sources, such as a totem internal measurement unit (“IMU”), external totem location tracking, vision cameras, and depth sensors, may be manipulated using a set of rules that are based on historical data, ergonomics data, and motion data.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2022Publication date: January 19, 2023Inventors: Federico Schliemann, Francisco Lopez-Fresquet, Victor Ng-Thow-Hing, Tomislav Pejsa
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Publication number: 20220366626Abstract: Examples of systems and methods for rendering an avatar in a mixed reality environment are disclosed. The systems and methods may be configured to automatically scale an avatar or to render an avatar based on a determined intention of a user, an interesting impulse, environmental stimuli, or user saccade points. The disclosed systems and methods may apply discomfort curves when rendering an avatar. The disclosed systems and methods may provide a more realistic interaction between a human user and an avatar.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2022Publication date: November 17, 2022Inventors: Thomas Marshall Miller, IV, Josh Anon, Frank Alexander Hamilton, IV, Cole Parker Heiner, Victor Ng-Thow-Hing, Rodrigo Cano, Karen Stolzenberg, Lorena Pazmino, Gregory Minh Tran, Stephane Antoine Joseph Imbert, Anthony Marinello
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Patent number: 11487366Abstract: Examples of systems and methods for improved hand tracking of a user in a mixed reality environment are disclosed. The systems and methods may be configured to estimate the hand pose and shape of a user's hands for applications such as animating a hand on a user's avatar. Data from multiple sources, such as a totem internal measurement unit (“IMU”), external totem location tracking, vision cameras, and depth sensors, may be manipulated using a set of rules that are based on historical data, ergonomics data, and motion data.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2021Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventors: Federico Schliemann, Francisco Lopez-Fresquet, Victor Ng-Thow-Hing, Tomislav Pejsa
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Publication number: 20220335695Abstract: Systems and methods for matching content elements to surfaces in a spatially organized 3D environment. The method includes receiving content, identifying one or more elements in the content, determining one or more surfaces, matching the one or more elements to the one or more surfaces, and displaying the one or more elements as virtual content onto the one or more surfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2022Publication date: October 20, 2022Applicant: MAGIC LEAP, INC.Inventors: Denys Bastov, Victor Ng-Thow-Hing, Benjamin Zaaron Reinhardt, Leonid Zolotarev, Yannick Pellet, Aleksei Marchenko, Brian Everett Meaney, Marc Coleman Shelton, Megan Ann Geiman, John A. Gotcher, Matthew Schon Bogue, Shivakumar Balasubramanyam, Jeffrey Edward Ruediger, David Charles Lundmark
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Patent number: 11380039Abstract: Examples of systems and methods for rendering an avatar in a mixed reality environment are disclosed. The systems and methods may be configured to automatically scale an avatar or to render an avatar based on a determined intention of a user, an interesting impulse, environmental stimuli, or user saccade points. The disclosed systems and methods may apply discomfort curves when rendering an avatar. The disclosed systems and methods may provide a more realistic interaction between a human user and an avatar.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2018Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Marshall Miller, IV, Victor Ng-Thow-Hing, Josh Anon, Frank Alexander Hamilton, IV, Cole Parker Heiner, Rodrigo Cano, Karen Stolzenberg, Lorena Pazmino, Gregory Minh Tran, Stephane Antoine Joseph Imbert, Anthony Marinello
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Patent number: 11378798Abstract: A method of generating a simulation of a physical object in an image of a physical environment. The method also includes generating a planar polygon mesh from at least the image. The method further includes extracting a boundary polygon of the planar polygon mesh. Moreover, the method includes generating a convex hull for the boundary polygon of the surface mesh. In addition, the method includes generating a minimal area oriented boundary polygon from the convex hull. The method may also include generating a maximal area oriented internal polygon (MAOBP) inside of the boundary polygon of the planar polygon mesh. The MAOBP is utilized to generate a 3-D surface model of the physical object, and the 3-D surface model is used to generate a simulation involving an interaction with the 3-D surface model of the physical object.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventor: Victor Ng-Thow-Hing
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Patent number: 11373376Abstract: Systems and methods for matching content elements to surfaces in a spatially organized 3D environment. The method includes receiving content, identifying one or more elements in the content, determining one or more surfaces, matching the one or more elements to the one or more surfaces, and displaying the one or more elements as virtual content onto the one or more surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2021Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventors: Denys Bastov, Victor Ng-Thow-Hing, Benjamin Zaaron Reinhardt, Leonid Zolotarev, Yannick Pellet, Aleksei Marchenko, Brian Everett Meaney, Marc Coleman Shelton, Megan Ann Geiman, John A. Gotcher, Matthew Schon Bogue, Shivakumar Balasubramanyam, Jeffrey Edward Ruediger, David Charles Lundmark
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Publication number: 20220137724Abstract: Examples of systems and methods for improved hand tracking of a user in a mixed reality environment are disclosed. The systems and methods may be configured to estimate the hand pose and shape of a user's hands for applications such as animating a hand on a user's avatar. Data from multiple sources, such as a totem internal measurement unit (“IMU”), external totem location tracking, vision cameras, and depth sensors, may be manipulated using a set of rules that are based on historical data, ergonomics data, and motion data.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2021Publication date: May 5, 2022Inventors: Federico Schliemann, Francisco Lopez-Fresquet, Victor Ng-Thow-Hing, Tomislav Pejsa
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Patent number: 11199912Abstract: Examples of systems and methods for improved hand tracking of a user in a mixed reality environment are disclosed. The systems and methods may be configured to estimate the hand pose and shape of a user's hands for applications such as animating a hand on a user's avatar. Data from multiple sources, such as a totem internal measurement unit (“IMU”), external totem location tracking, vision cameras, and depth sensors, may be manipulated using a set of rules that are based on historical data, ergonomics data, and motion data.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2019Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventors: Federico Schliemann, Francisco Lopez-Fresquet, Victor Ng-Thow-Hing, Tomislav Pejsa
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Publication number: 20210358222Abstract: Wearable systems for privacy preserving expression generation for augmented or virtual reality client applications. An example method includes receiving, by an expression manager configured to communicate expression information to client applications, a request from a client application for access to the expression information. The expression information reflects information derived from one or more sensors of the wearable system, with the client application being configured to present virtual content including an avatar rendered based on the expression information. A user interface is output for presentation which requests user authorization for the client application to access the expression information. In response to receiving user input indicating user authorization, enabling access to the expression information is enabled. The client application obtains periodic updates to the expression information, and the avatar is rendered based on the periodic updates.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2021Publication date: November 18, 2021Inventors: Tomislav Pejsa, Dushan Vasilevski, Victor Ng-Thow-Hing, Koichi Mori