Patents by Inventor William Dugald Carr
William Dugald Carr 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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Patent number: 11363329Abstract: A real-time video exploration (RVE) system that allows users to pause, step into, move through, and explore 2D or 3D modeled worlds of scenes in a video. The RVE system may allow users to discover, select, explore, and manipulate objects within the modeled worlds used to generate video content. The RVE system may implement methods that allow users to view and explore in more detail the features, components, and/or accessories of selected objects that are being manipulated and explored. The RVE system may also implement methods that allow users to interact with interfaces of selected objects or interfaces of components of selected objects.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2018Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Gerard Joseph Heinz, II, Michael Schleif Pesce, Collin Charles Davis, Michael Anthony Frazzini, Ashraf Alkarmi, Michael Martin George, David A. Limp, William Dugald Carr, Jr.
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Patent number: 11288867Abstract: A real-time video exploration (RVE) system that allows users to pause, step into, and explore 2D or 3D modeled worlds of scenes in a video. The system may leverage network-based computation resources to render and stream new video content from the models to clients with low latency. A user may pause a video, step into a scene, and interactively change viewing positions and angles in the model to move through or explore the scene. The user may resume playback of the recorded video when done exploring the scene. Thus, rather than just viewing a pre-rendered scene in a movie from a pre-determined perspective, a user may step into and explore the scene from different angles, and may wander around the scene at will within the scope of the model to discover parts of the scene that are not visible in the original video.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2018Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Gerard Joseph Heinz, II, Michael Schleif Pesce, Collin Charles Davis, Michael Anthony Frazzini, Ashraf Alkarmi, Michael Martin George, David A. Limp, William Dugald Carr, Jr.
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Patent number: 11222479Abstract: A real-time video exploration (RVE) system that allows users to pause, step into, move through, and explore 2D or 3D modeled worlds of scenes in a video. The RVE system may allow users to select and manipulate objects within a scene, and to modify an object by adding or removing accessories from the object or otherwise customizing the object according to the user's preferences or desires. The RVE system may also provide an interface or interfaces via which the user can obtain additional information for the object, customize the object, be given a price or price(s) for the object as customized, and purchase the object as specified if desired.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2017Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Gerard Joseph Heinz, II, Michael Schleif Pesce, Collin Charles Davis, Michael Anthony Frazzini, Ashraf Alkarmi, Michael Martin George, David A. Limp, William Dugald Carr, Jr.
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Patent number: 10939175Abstract: A real-time video exploration (RVE) system that allows users to pause a pre-recorded video (e.g., a movie) and change viewing positions and angles of one or more scenes. The RVE system may also allow users to select, manipulate, and modify objects within one or more scenes. The RVE system may render new video of the scenes and stream the new video to the user's client device. Using the RVE system, a user may create modified versions of one or more scenes to replace original scenes in a video to thus create a modified version of the video. The RVE system may allow the user to record the modified version of the video, and may allow the user to share the modified version of the video with other viewers.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2014Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Gerard Joseph Heinz, II, Michael Schleif Pesce, Collin Charles Davis, Michael Anthony Frazzini, Ashraf Alkarmi, Michael Martin George, David A. Limp, William Dugald Carr, Jr.
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Patent number: 10375434Abstract: A real-time video targeting (RVT) system may leverage network-based computation resources and services, available 2D or 3D model data, and available viewer information to dynamically personalize content of, or add personalized content to, video for particular viewers or viewer groups. When playing back pre-recorded video to viewers, at least some objects or other content in at least some of the scenes of the video may be replaced with objects or content targeted at particular viewers or groups according to profiles or preferences of the viewers or groups. Since the video is being rendered and streamed to different viewers or groups in real-time by the network-based computation resources and services, any given scene of a video may be modified and viewed in many different ways by different viewers or groups based on the particular viewers' or groups' profiles.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2014Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Gerard Joseph Heinz, II, Michael Schleif Pesce, Collin Charles Davis, Michael Anthony Frazzini, Ashraf Alkarmi, Michael Martin George, David A. Limp, William Dugald Carr, Jr.
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Publication number: 20180165876Abstract: A real-time video exploration (RVE) system that allows users to pause, step into, and explore 2D or 3D modeled worlds of scenes in a video. The system may leverage network-based computation resources to render and stream new video content from the models to clients with low latency. A user may pause a video, step into a scene, and interactively change viewing positions and angles in the model to move through or explore the scene. The user may resume playback of the recorded video when done exploring the scene. Thus, rather than just viewing a pre-rendered scene in a movie from a pre-determined perspective, a user may step into and explore the scene from different angles, and may wander around the scene at will within the scope of the model to discover parts of the scene that are not visible in the original video.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2018Publication date: June 14, 2018Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Gerard Joseph Heinz, II, Michael Schleif Pesce, Collin Charles Davis, Michael Anthony Frazzini, Ashraf Alkarmi, Michael Martin George, David A. Limp, William Dugald Carr, JR.
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Patent number: 9894405Abstract: A real-time video exploration (RVE) system that allows users to pause, step into, move through, and explore 2D or 3D modeled worlds of scenes in a video. The RVE system may allow users to discover, select, explore, and manipulate objects within the modeled worlds used to generate video content. The RVE system may implement methods that allow users to view and explore in more detail the features, components, and/or accessories of selected objects that are being manipulated and explored. The RVE system may also implement methods that allow users to interact with interfaces of selected objects or interfaces of components of selected objects.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2014Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Gerard Joseph Heinz, II, Michael Schleif Pesce, Collin Charles Davis, Michael Anthony Frazzini, Ashraf Alkarmi, Michael Martin George, David A. Limp, William Dugald Carr, Jr.
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Patent number: 9892556Abstract: A real-time video exploration (RVE) system that allows users to pause, step into, and explore 2D or 3D modeled worlds of scenes in a video. The system may leverage network-based computation resources to render and stream new video content from the models to clients with low latency. A user may pause a video, step into a scene, and interactively change viewing positions and angles in the model to move through or explore the scene. The user may resume playback of the recorded video when done exploring the scene. Thus, rather than just viewing a pre-rendered scene in a movie from a pre-determined perspective, a user may step into and explore the scene from different angles, and may wander around the scene at will within the scope of the model to discover parts of the scene that are not visible in the original video.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2014Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Gerard Joseph Heinz, II, Michael Schleif Pesce, Collin Charles Davis, Michael Anthony Frazzini, Ashraf Alkarmi, Michael Martin George, David A. Limp, William Dugald Carr, Jr.
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Publication number: 20170358145Abstract: A real-time video exploration (RVE) system that allows users to pause, step into, move through, and explore 2D or 3D modeled worlds of scenes in a video. The RVE system may allow users to select and manipulate objects within a scene, and to modify an object by adding or removing accessories from the object or otherwise customizing the object according to the user's preferences or desires. The RVE system may also provide an interface or interfaces via which the user can obtain additional information for the object, customize the object, be given a price or price(s) for the object as customized, and purchase the object as specified if desired.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2017Publication date: December 14, 2017Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Gerard Joseph Heinz, II, Michael Schleif Pesce, Collin Charles Davis, Michael Anthony Frazzini, Ashraf Alkarmi, Michael Martin George, David A. Limp, William Dugald Carr, JR.
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Patent number: 9747727Abstract: A real-time video exploration (RVE) system that allows users to pause, step into, move through, and explore 2D or 3D modeled worlds of scenes in a video. The RVE system may allow users to select and manipulate objects within a scene, and to modify an object by adding or removing accessories from the object or otherwise customizing the object according to the user's preferences or desires. The RVE system may also provide an interface or interfaces via which the user can obtain additional information for the object, customize the object, be given a price or price(s) for the object as customized, and purchase the object as specified if desired.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2014Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Gerard Joseph Heinz, II, Michael Schleif Pesce, Collin Charles Davis, Michael Anthony Frazzini, Ashraf Alkarmi, Michael Martin George, David A. Limp, William Dugald Carr
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Patent number: 9344499Abstract: Techniques are described regarding providing consumers with devices on which digital content appropriate for those consumers has been loaded, such as digital media player devices or other consumer devices that are able to play or otherwise present digital media loaded on those devices. In some situations, when a consumer orders such a digital media player or other consumer device from a merchant (or other distributor of the device), the merchant preloads a copy of the device with digital media content before delivering that device to the consumer or other specified recipient, such as digital media items that are automatically selected in a personalized manner for the recipient to whom the device will be sent. This abstract is provided to comply with rules requiring an abstract, and is submitted with the intention that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2013Date of Patent: May 17, 2016Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Steven Kessel, William Dugald Carr, Samuel Stevens Heyworth
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Publication number: 20150262402Abstract: A real-time video exploration (RVE) system that allows users to pause, step into, move through, and explore 2D or 3D modeled worlds of scenes in a video. The RVE system may allow users to select and manipulate objects within a scene, and to modify an object by adding or removing accessories from the object or otherwise customizing the object according to the user's preferences or desires. The RVE system may also provide an interface or interfaces via which the user can obtain additional information for the object, customize the object, be given a price or price(s) for the object as customized, and purchase the object as specified if desired.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2014Publication date: September 17, 2015Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: GERALD JOSEPH HEINZ, II, MICHAEL SCHLEIF PESCE, COLLIN CHARLES DAVIS, MICHAEL ANTHONY FRAZZINI, ASHRAF ALKARMI, MICHAEL MARTIN GEORGE, DAVID A. LIMP, WILLIAM DUGALD CARR, JR.
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Publication number: 20150264416Abstract: A real-time video targeting (RVT) system may leverage network-based computation resources and services, available 2D or 3D model data, and available viewer information to dynamically personalize content of, or add personalized content to, video for particular viewers or viewer groups. When playing back pre-recorded video to viewers, at least some objects or other content in at least some of the scenes of the video may be replaced with objects or content targeted at particular viewers or groups according to profiles or preferences of the viewers or groups. Since the video is being rendered and streamed to different viewers or groups in real-time by the network-based computation resources and services, any given scene of a video may be modified and viewed in many different ways by different viewers or groups based on the particular viewers' or groups' profiles.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2014Publication date: September 17, 2015Applicant: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: GERALD JOSEPH HEINZ, II, MICHAEL SCHLEIF PESCE, COLLIN CHARLES DAVIS, MICHAEL ANTHONY FRAZZINI, ASHRAF ALKARMI, MICHAEL MARTIN GEORGE, DAVID A. LIMP, WILLIAM DUGALD CARR, JR.
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Publication number: 20150264425Abstract: A real-time video exploration (RVE) system that allows users to pause, step into, move through, and explore 2D or 3D modeled worlds of scenes in a video. The RVE system may allow users to discover, select, explore, and manipulate objects within the modeled worlds used to generate video content. The RVE system may implement methods that allow users to view and explore in more detail the features, components, and/or accessories of selected objects that are being manipulated and explored. The RVE system may also implement methods that allow users to interact with interfaces of selected objects or interfaces of components of selected objects.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2014Publication date: September 17, 2015Applicant: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: GERALD JOSEPH HEINZ, II, MICHAEL SCHLEIF PESCE, COLLIN CHARLES DAVIS, MICHAEL ANTHONY FRAZZINI, ASHRAF ALKARMI, MICHAEL MARTIN GEORGE, DAVID A. LIMP, WILLIAM DUGALD CARR, JR.
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Publication number: 20150264441Abstract: A real-time video exploration (RVE) system that allows users to pause a pre-recorded video (e.g., a movie) and change viewing positions and angles of one or more scenes. The RVE system may also allow users to select, manipulate, and modify objects within one or more scenes. The RVE system may render new video of the scenes and stream the new video to the user's client device. Using the RVE system, a user may create modified versions of one or more scenes to replace original scenes in a video to thus create a modified version of the video. The RVE system may allow the user to record the modified version of the video, and may allow the user to share the modified version of the video with other viewers.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2014Publication date: September 17, 2015Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: GERALD JOSEPH HEINZ, II, MICHAEL SCHLEIF PESCE, COLLIN CHARLES DAVIS, MICHAEL ANTHONY FRAZZINI, ASHRAF ALKARMI, MICHAEL MARTIN GEORGE, DAVID A. LIMP, WILLIAM DUGALD CARR, JR.
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Publication number: 20150262423Abstract: A real-time video exploration (RVE) system that allows users to pause, step into, and explore 2D or 3D modeled worlds of scenes in a video. The system may leverage network-based computation resources to render and stream new video content from the models to clients with low latency. A user may pause a video, step into a scene, and interactively change viewing positions and angles in the model to move through or explore the scene. The user may resume playback of the recorded video when done exploring the scene. Thus, rather than just viewing a pre-rendered scene in a movie from a pre-determined perspective, a user may step into and explore the scene from different angles, and may wander around the scene at will within the scope of the model to discover parts of the scene that are not visible in the original video.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2014Publication date: September 17, 2015Applicant: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: GERALD JOSEPH HEINZ, II, MICHAEL SCHLEIF PESCE, COLLIN CHARLES DAVIS, MICHAEL ANTHONY FRAZZINI, ASHRAF ALKARMI, MICHAEL MARTIN GEORGE, DAVID A. LIMP, WILLIAM DUGALD CARR, JR.