123 patents
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Utility
Adaptive Scroll Wheel
14 Oct 21
A peripheral device with an adaptive scroll wheel can be used to provide additional control of a host computing device.
Jean-Claude Dunant, Jan Stoeckli, Maxim Vlasov, Nicolas Ramond
Filed: 9 Apr 20
Utility
Advanced Video Conferencing Systems and Methods
30 Sep 21
The present disclosure generally provides for advanced single camera video conferencing systems and methods related thereto.
Oleg OSTAP, Henry LEVAK, John Scott SKEEHAN
Filed: 29 Dec 20
Utility
Adaptive Scroll Wheel
16 Sep 21
A peripheral device with an adaptive scroll wheel can be used to provide additional control of a host computing device.
Jean-Claude Dunant, Jan Stoeckli, Maxim Vlasov, Nicolas Ramond, Patrick Cerisier
Filed: 28 May 21
Utility
Method and System for Detecting Peripheral Device Displacement
16 Sep 21
Methods and systems for determining a displacement of a peripheral device are provided.
Nicolas Chauvin, Francois Morier, Helmut Grabner
Filed: 27 May 21
Utility
Display Adaptation on a Peripheral Device
26 Aug 21
A method includes detecting an object in in proximity with the a peripheral device such that the object is located in a position indicative of light generated by one or more visual output elements of the peripheral device being obfuscated from a user; determining an obfuscation area defining a boundary of an area being obfuscated; determining a current output schema displayed on a set of visual output elements; determining a current visual output area defining a boundary of the current output schema; determining a location of the obfuscation area; determining a location of the current visual output area; determining an amount of overlap between the obfuscation area and the current visual output area based on their corresponding determined locations; and in response to the amount of overlap being greater than an overlap threshold value: reconfiguring the current output schema to be displayed on a different set of visual output elements.
Mark Starrett, Jacob Kottage, Andrew Durrer, Andrew Coonrad
Filed: 21 Feb 20
Utility
Multi-peripheral Position-based Synchronous Lighting
26 Aug 21
A method can include: determining a physical location of each of a plurality of peripheral devices communicatively coupled to a host computing device; generating a lighting sequence configured to activate visual output elements on the each of the plurality of peripheral devices, wherein the lighting sequence is a time based sequence that traverses the plurality of peripheral devices; and modifying a timing parameter of the lighting sequence based on the respective physical location of each of the plurality of peripheral devices.
Mark Starrett, Jacob Kottage, Andrew Durrer, Andrew Coonrad, Curtis Brown
Filed: 21 Feb 20
Utility
Apparatus and Method for Optimizing Sound Quality of a Generated Audible Signal
26 Aug 21
The present disclosure generally provides an apparatus and method of controlling an audible signal generated by an audio device to improve the sound quality of the generated audible signal and/or sound quality perceived by a user.
Calhoun Ernst ZABEL, Daniel Ryan MARQUEZ, Matthew James GREEN, Douglas George MORTON
Filed: 30 Jul 20
Utility
System and Method for Function-based Lighting Output Schemas for Peripheral Devices
26 Aug 21
A method can include intercepting a command generated by a computer peripheral device; determining a function corresponding to the command; generating a lighting output schema configured to be output on one or more visual output elements on the computer peripheral device based on the determined function; identifying, based on the determined function, whether a second software component can accept the command; and in response to determining that the second software component can accept the command, sending the intercepted command to the second software component.
Mark Starrett, Jacob Kottage, Andrew Durrer, Andrew Coonrad, Thomas Rouvinez
Filed: 21 Feb 20
Utility
Input Device for Ar/vr Applications
15 Jul 21
An AR/VR input device include a processor(s), an internal measurement unit (IMU), and a plurality of sensors configured to detect emissions received from a plurality of remote emitters.
Andreas Connellan, Arash Salarian, Fergal Corcoran, Jacques Chassot, Jerry Ahern, Laleh Makarem, Mario Gutierrez, Maxim Vlasov, Olivier Guédat, Padraig Murphy, Richard Peter Perring
Filed: 29 Mar 21
Utility
Gaming Pedal Assembly
1 Jul 21
In certain embodiments, a gaming pedal assembly comprises a base platform and a pedal arm rotatably coupled to the base platform at a first mounting location that provides a first axis of rotation for the pedal arm relative to the base platform.
Simon Baumgartner, Jan Stoeckli, Cian Connolly, Davin O'Mahony, Cheng Hao Chiu, Ping Hao Chang
Filed: 31 Dec 19
Utility
System and Methods for Integrated Multistreaming of Media with Graphical Overlays
1 Jul 21
This present disclosure describes a system and methods for integrated multistreaming of media with graphical overlays.
Murtaza Hussain, Salman Budhwani, Ali Moiz
Filed: 17 Mar 21
Utility
User Recognition and Gaze Tracking In a Video System
1 Jul 21
Some embodiments include a method comprising receiving gaze data from an image sensor that indicates where a user is looking, determining a location that the user is directing their gaze on a display based on the gaze data, receiving a confirmation input from an input device, and generating and effectuating an input command based on the location on the display that the user is directing their gaze when the confirmation input is received.
Ludovico Novelli
Filed: 31 Dec 20
Utility
User Recognition and Gaze Tracking In a Video System
1 Jul 21
Some embodiments include a computer-implemented method for tracking a gaze of a user that can include receiving image data that includes a plurality of eye landmarks that identify a perimeter of a user's eye, applying dynamic thresholding to the image data, determining a convex hull based on the dynamically thresholded and image data, computing and fitting an ellipse along a boundary of the convex hull, the ellipse corresponding to an iris of the user's eye, updating the image data with the computed ellipse, computing a refined ellipse by reapplying the dynamic thresholding and determining the convex hull using the updated image data, and determining a gaze direction of the user based in part on a position of the refined ellipse relative to the perimeter of the user's eye.
Ludovico Novelli, Arnaud Hennig, Mathieu Salzmann
Filed: 31 Dec 19
Utility
High Resolution, Wide Fov Static Lens Assembly
24 Jun 21
A static lens system is disclosed and includes the following in one embodiment: a lens assembly housing defining a front opening; an imaging sensor; a lens assembly disposed within the lens assembly housing and comprising: first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth lens elements, the sixth lens element being adjacent to the imaging sensor and the first lens element being adjacent to the front opening; wherein the first through third and sixth lens elements are concave lenses have a negative focal length and the fourth and fifth lens elements are concave lens and have a positive focal length.
Hsu Ting Chia, Ian Chen
Filed: 18 Dec 19
Utility
Doorbell System with Energy Storage Device
17 Jun 21
In some embodiments, a video doorbell system includes a video doorbell device on an exterior surface of a structure and a chime kit within an interior of the structure.
Aron Rosenberg, John M. Long, Nick Stoughton
Filed: 18 Feb 21
Utility
Peripheral Electronic Devices Having Synchronized Operating Modes
10 Jun 21
A method is disclosed for synchronizing operating modes across a plurality of peripheral devices.
David Tarongi Vanrell
Filed: 18 Feb 21
Utility
Ergonomic Keyboard System
13 May 21
An ergonomic keyboard apparatus comprising a keyboard frame including an ergonomic contour defined in part by a gabled portion of the keyboard frame that is pitched into a contoured peak that forms a first slope and a second slope on either side of the keyboard frame.
Sylvain Sauvage, Maxence Perret-Gentil, Lars Lauridsen
Filed: 12 Nov 19
Utility
Video Content Activity Context and Regions
6 May 21
A method of operating a video camera system comprises recording video frames of a scene that includes a zone defined as an area within a field-of-view of the video capture element; performing a first analysis of recorded video frames showing the zone, determining, based on the first analysis, a first difference of composition thereof; performing a second analysis of an area outside of the zone; determining, based on the second analysis, a second difference of composition thereof; characterizing one or more properties corresponding to the second difference in composition; determining whether the one or more properties are associated with the first difference in composition within the zone and if so, characterizing the first difference in composition within the zone based on the one more properties and performing an action based on the characterization of the first difference in composition within the zone based on the one or more properties.
Fabian Nater, Gaurav Bradoo
Filed: 5 Nov 20
Utility
Systems and Methods for Operating an Input Device In an Augmented/virtual Reality Environment
8 Apr 21
In some embodiments, a system comprising one or more processors configured to track a location of an input device within a physical environment via a three-dimensional (3D) tracking system, and modify a tracking parameter of the 3D tracking system while tracking the location of the input device based on the determined location of the input device within the physical environment.
Stephen Harvey, Denis O'Keeffe, Aidan Kehoe, Mario Gutierrez, Damien O'Sullivan, Thomas Rouvinez, Mathieu Meisser, Noirin Curran, Remy Zimmermann, Marcel Twohig, Dennin Onorio, Pierce O'Bradaigh, Olivier Riviere, Ciaran Trotman, Andreas Connellan, Padraig Murphy, Jerry Ahern
Filed: 1 Jul 20
Utility
Microphone Array Assembly
1 Apr 21
A microphone capsule assembly includes a first microphone capsule oriented to face a first direction that is parallel to a first plane, a second microphone capsule oriented to face in a direction opposite to the first direction, where a front face of the second microphone capsule is spaced a distance from a front face of the first microphone capsule in the first direction, a third microphone capsule oriented to face in a second direction that is at a first acute angle to the first direction when measured parallel to the first plane, and a fourth microphone capsule oriented to face in a third direction that is at a second acute angle to the first direction when measured parallel to the first plane, where the third and fourth microphone capsules are spaced a distance from the front face of the first microphone capsule in the first direction.
Clayton Christopher WILLIAMSON, Adam Kirk BENNETT, Matthew Fumio YAMAMOTO, Sal Gregory GARCIA, Tyler Copeland BARKLEY, Aaron Lee BUTTERS
Filed: 1 Sep 20