Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC patent applications on October 17th, 2024
Patent Applications by Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC on October 17th, 2024
Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC: 18 patent applications
Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC has applied for patents in the areas of G02B5/00 (2), G02B27/01 (2), G02B27/00 (2), G06F3/01 (2), G06T19/00 (2) G02B27/0093 (2), G01B11/2513 (1), G06T19/003 (1), H04W72/0446 (1), H04M3/18 (1)
With keywords such as: light, waveguide, image, output, configured, communication, user, input, object, and audio in patent application abstracts.
Patent Applications by Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
Inventor(s): Mantas ZURAUSKAS of Redmond WA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc
IPC Code(s): G01B11/25, H04N23/10
CPC Code(s): G01B11/2513
Abstract: a system for dynamic profilometric imaging using multiscale pattern(s) is described. the system may include a projector that projects a multiscale pattern on an environment including a target of interest. the system may also include an imaging sensor that receives reflections of the projected multiscale pattern from the target of interest. the system may further include a controller of the camera and the projector which performs profilometric imaging of the target of interest by dynamically adjusting an operational parameter of the camera, the projector, and/or the controller. the multiscale pattern(s) may contain useful features at multiple scales and/or may be optimal at predetermined depths and/or resolutions. by dynamically adjusting the operational parameter, such a profilometric imaging system may perform there-dimensional (3d) scene reconstruction while maintaining optimal performance, power efficiency and profilometric resolution.
Inventor(s): Shaomin Xiong of Newark CA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Lidu Huang of Danville CA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Michael Andrew Brookmire of Redwood City CA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Zhaochun Yu of Wilmette IL (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Fei Liu of Los Altos CA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Jianing Yao of San Jose CA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Dongmin Yang of San Jose CA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Yizhi Xiong of Foster City CA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc
IPC Code(s): G02B5/00, G02B26/02, G02B27/01
CPC Code(s): G02B5/005
Abstract: a size of an optical aperture for an imaging system is adjustable. the size of the optical aperture can be adjusted based on refractive index matching, optical absorption, or near field coupling techniques. these techniques may also be used to provide a high speed optical shutter.
Inventor(s): Yang Yang of Redmond WA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Mohamed Tarek Ahmed El-Haddad of Redmond WA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Junjie Hu of Bellevue WA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc
IPC Code(s): G02B27/00, F21V8/00, G06F3/01, G06T7/73, H04N23/56
CPC Code(s): G02B27/0093
Abstract: a waveguide system in a lens assembly of a head mounted device may be used to support eye tracking operations. the waveguide system includes a waveguide, an input coupler, and an output coupler. the input coupler is disposed in the waveguide, and the input coupler is configured to in-couple light into the waveguide. the output coupler is disposed in the waveguide and is configured to out-couple the light from the waveguide. the output coupler includes at least one trapezoidal portion to condition the depth of field for the waveguide system. the output coupler may have two (dual) trapezoidal portions that are similar to the shape of a bowtie or hourglass to configure the depth of field of the waveguide system along a particular direction (e.g., the y-axis). the bowtie shape of the output coupler provides uniform in-coupling of light from the input coupler along a range of angles.
Inventor(s): Jian XU of Redmond WA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Xiang LI of Redmond WA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Miaomiao XU of Redmond WA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Xingzhou TU of Redmond WA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Shaobai LI of Redmond WA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Xiayu FENG of Kirkland WA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Wanli CHI of Sammamish WA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Wai Sze Tiffany LAM of Lynnwood WA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc
IPC Code(s): G02B27/00
CPC Code(s): G02B27/0093
Abstract: a system is provided. the system includes a light source configured to emit a infrared (“ir”) light for illuminating an object. the system also includes a waveguide imaging assembly including a waveguide, an in-coupling element disposed at a first portion of the waveguide, an out-coupling element disposed at a second portion of the waveguide, and an optical sensor disposed facing the out-coupling element. the in-coupling element is configured to couple the ir light reflected by the object into the waveguide, the waveguide is configured to guide the ir light to propagate toward the out-coupling element through total internal reflection, and the out-coupling element is configured to couple the ir light out of the waveguide toward the optical sensor. the optical sensor is configured to generate a tracking signal of the object based on the ir light output from the waveguide.
Inventor(s): Shenglin Ye of Santa Clara CA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Xinyu Zhu of San Jose CA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Xiangtong Li of San Jose CA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Yu-Jen Wang of San Jose CA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Yun-Han Lee of Redmond WA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Linghui Rao of Redmond WA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc
IPC Code(s): G02F1/13357, G02F1/1335, G02F1/1362
CPC Code(s): G02F1/133611
Abstract: a liquid crystal display (lcd) system for a head mounted display includes an lcd panel and a backlight unit. the lcd panel includes a color filter on array (coa) configuration. the backlight unit includes a light adjustment layer to adjust at least one characteristic of illumination light from a light source to tune the illumination light for enlarging an emission cone of display light.
Inventor(s): Xiangtong Li of San Jose CA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Xinyu Zhu of San Jose CA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Yu-Jen Wang of San Jose CA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Linghui Rao of Redmond WA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Yun-Han Lee of Redmond WA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc
IPC Code(s): G02F1/1343, G06F1/16
CPC Code(s): G02F1/134318
Abstract: a liquid crystal pixel includes liquid crystals, a source electrode, and a transparent common electrode layer. the liquid crystals are configured to change an alignment of the liquid crystals in response to a voltage applied across the source electrode and the transparent common electrode layer. the slit in the transparent common electrode layer includes multiple angled sections.
Inventor(s): Khaled Boulos of Seattle WA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Yan Gouts of Bellevue WA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Derrick Readinger of Philadelphia PA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Marcus Peterson of Kirkland WA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Lorenz Henric Jentz of Seattle WA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc
IPC Code(s): G06F3/038, G06F3/01, G06F3/02, G06F3/0338, G06F3/0354
CPC Code(s): G06F3/0383
Abstract: a controller includes a housing, and a handle extends from a portion of the housing. the housing defines an internal cavity. the housing includes a thumb plate, wherein the thumb plate comprises a touchpad, one or more actuators, and/or a joystick. the one or more actuators comprise buttons. the controller includes a logic board including a processor oriented in the internal cavity. the controller comprises a switch assembly oriented in the internal cavity and configured to engage the logic board. the handle comprises at least one trigger oriented for movement into the internal cavity. the trigger can include a magnet and magnetic sensor.
Inventor(s): Matheus Trevisan Moreira of La Jolla CA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Edith Dallard of San Mateo CA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Huseyin Ekin Sumbul of San Francisco CA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Fan Wu of Redwood City CA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, William Koven of San Jose CA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc
IPC Code(s): G06F30/35, G06F5/06, G06F30/347
CPC Code(s): G06F30/35
Abstract: a device for reducing the effects of variation in inter-die communication in 3d-stacked systems may include a die-to-die interconnect that includes a first module configured to convert data from a first synchronous domain to a dual-rail quasi-delay-insensitive format and a second module configured to convert the data from the dual-rail quasi-delay-insensitive format to a second synchronous domain. various other devices, systems, and methods of manufacture are also disclosed.
Inventor(s): Zhe Liu of Sunnyvale CA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Yue Hui of Weehawken NJ (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Fuchun Peng of Palo Alto CA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc
IPC Code(s): G06N20/00
CPC Code(s): G06N20/00
Abstract: a system and method facilitating group personalized federated learning are provided. the system may provide a global machine learning model, generated based on federated learning, to communication devices. the system may also receive model parameters from the communication devices based in part on the communication devices determining local training data generated by the communication devices implementing the global machine learning model. the system may also determine, based on the model parameters from the communication devices, groups of the communication devices and may assign a group specific machine learning model(s), among a plurality of group specific machine learning models, to the groups. the plurality of group specific machine learning models may be associated with the global machine learning model. the system may also provide respective group specific machine learning models, among the plurality of group specific machine learning models, to subsets of communication devices of the groups of the communication devices.
Inventor(s): Plamen Alexandrov Ivanov of Goleta CA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Antti Kelloniemi of Redwood City CA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc
IPC Code(s): G06T13/20, G02B27/01, G06T13/40, G06T17/00, G06V40/16
CPC Code(s): G06T13/205
Abstract: a local area includes multiple users each using a headset to communicate with other users in the local area, as well as with additional users in a remote area. the headset includes one or more acoustic sensors, a transducer array, one or more external capturing sensors (e.g., cameras) capturing information describing the local area. a headset of a user in the local area local detects audio from an additional user in the local area. in response to detecting the audio, an avatar representing the additional user that is displayed by the user's headset is modified to appear to be synchronized with the audio from the additional user that is heard by the user. additionally, each headset provides respective face tracking through one or more internal imaging devices that is provided with and captured audio to a server which provides the information users in the remote area.
Inventor(s): Jason Saragih of Pittsburgh PA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Shih-En Wei of Pittsburgh PA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Tomas Simon Kreuz of Pittsburgh PA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Kris Makoto Kitani of Pittsburgh PA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Ye Yuan of Pittsburgh PA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc
IPC Code(s): G06T19/00, G06T15/10, G06V40/10, G06V40/20
CPC Code(s): G06T19/00
Abstract: a method for simulating a solid body animation of a subject includes retrieving a first frame that includes a body image of a subject. the method also includes selecting, from the first frame, multiple key points within the body image of the subject that define a hull of a body part and multiple joint points that define a joint between two body parts, identifying a geometry, a speed, and a mass of the body part to include in a dynamic model of the subject, based on the key points and the joint points, determining, based on the dynamic model of the subject, a pose of the subject in a second frame after the first frame in a video stream, and providing the video stream to an immersive reality application running on a client device.
Inventor(s): Steve John Clohset of San Francisco CA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Warren Andrew Hunt of Woodinville WA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc
IPC Code(s): G06T19/00, G06T17/20
CPC Code(s): G06T19/003
Abstract: systems and methods for occluding virtual objects in an augmented reality environment are described. a method includes generating a distance map associated with a physical object, determining a location of a virtual object in an artificial-reality environment, determining, based at least in part upon the distance map and the location of the virtual object, a first portion of the physical object that is closer than a first portion of the virtual object from the viewpoint of the user, determining a second portion of the virtual object that is not obscured by the physical object from the viewpoint of the user, and rendering a display image. the display image comprises a first set of pixels corresponding to the first portion of the physical object in a first state, and the display image comprises a second set of pixels corresponding to the second portion of the virtual object in a second state.
Inventor(s): Haomiao Jiang of Cupertino CA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Linghui Rao of Redmond WA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Tianxin Ning of San Mateo CA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Weihua Gao of Santa Clara CA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Yongmin Park of Sammamish WA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc
IPC Code(s): G09G3/34, G09G3/36
CPC Code(s): G09G3/3426
Abstract: in particular embodiments, a computing system may receive receiving a first image frame of a sequence of image frames to be shown on a display having a plurality of backlight zones. the computing system may compute backlight unit statistics of the first image frame. the backlight unit statistics may represent grayscale levels for the plurality of backlight zones. the computing system may compute a global dimming gain for adjusting color values and backlight unit intensity of a second image frame of the sequence of image frames based on the backlight unit statistics of the first image frame. the computing system may adjust, using the global dimming gain, the color values and the backlight unit intensity of the second image frame.
Inventor(s): Rahul AGARWAL of Woodinville WA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Jonathan Robert PETERSON of Woodinville WA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Christopher Yuan Ting LIAO of Seattle WA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Giuseppe CALAFIORE of Woodinville WA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc
IPC Code(s): H02S40/22, G02B5/22, G02B5/30, G02F1/133
CPC Code(s): H02S40/22
Abstract: according to examples, an energy harvesting component for an optical device having an illumination source emitting unused light is described. the apparatus may include a light source to generate and transmit display light comprising at least one beam of light and an illumination source component to receive the at least one beam of light and to diffract the at least one beam of light in a first direction and an opposing direction. the apparatus may further include and an energy harvesting component to receive and absorb the at least one beam of light diffracted in an opposing direction and to convert the at least one beam of light diffracted in an opposing direction into electrical energy.
Inventor(s): Sri Harsha Manjunath of Folsom CA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc
IPC Code(s): H04B1/40, H04L25/49
CPC Code(s): H04B1/40
Abstract: an apparatus may include an input, an output, a current source, a first switch configured to electrically couple the current source to the output, a current sink, a second switch configured to electrically couple the current sink to the output, and a driver configured to modulate states of the output to reflect states of the input by: detecting a first input state of the input, changing the output to a first output state corresponding to the first input state of the input by electrically coupling, via the first switch, the current source to the output, detecting a second input state of the input; and changing the output from the first output state to a second output state corresponding to the second input state of the input by electrically coupling, via the second switch, the current sink to the output. various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
Inventor(s): Plamen Alexandrov Ivanov of Goleta CA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Antti Kelloniemi of Redwood City CA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc
IPC Code(s): H04M3/18, G10L17/06, G10L21/0208, G10L21/0216
CPC Code(s): H04M3/18
Abstract: systems, apparatuses and methods identify first data associated with a first user and determines whether a second user is colocated with the first user based on the first data. the systems, apparatuses and methods receive first audio data associated with the first user, and second audio data associated with the second user, and responsive to a determination that the second user is colocated with the first user, one or more of determine that a first audio feed to the first user will exclude the second audio data, or determine that a second audio feed to the second user will exclude the first audio data, and generate one or more of the first audio feed or the second audio feed.
Inventor(s): Yi Lu of Kirkland WA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Qi Qu of Redmond WA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Ping Wang of Redmond WA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Qing Zhao of Fremont CA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc
IPC Code(s): H04W72/0446, H04W72/25
CPC Code(s): H04W72/0446
Abstract: systems and methods for wireless sidelink communications may include a first wireless communication device which establishes a sidelink (sl) session with a second wireless communication device. the first wireless communication device may reserve a block of sl slots for transmission of traffic between the first wireless communication device and the second wireless communication device. the first wireless communication device may transmit, to the second wireless communication device, the traffic of the sl session in the block of sl slots.
Inventor(s): Amber Sun of Sunnyvale CA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Alan Kleiman Shwarsctein of Saratoga CA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc, Chien-Ming Nieh of Palo Alto CA (US) for meta platforms technologies, llc
IPC Code(s): H05K9/00, G02B5/00, H04N23/52, H04N23/54, H04N23/75
CPC Code(s): H05K9/0058
Abstract: a camera module includes a printed circuit, an image sensor, a lens assembly, and a multi-layer shield. the lens assembly is configured to focus image light to the image sensor. the multi-layer shield is disposed around the lens assembly and around the image sensor. the multi-layer shield includes a shield layer and a light-blocking layer. the shielding layer is configured to block electromagnetic interference (emi). the light-blocking layer is configured to block ambient light from becoming incident on the image sensor and the lens assembly.
Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC patent applications on October 17th, 2024
- Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
- G01B11/25
- H04N23/10
- CPC G01B11/2513
- Meta platforms technologies, llc
- G02B5/00
- G02B26/02
- G02B27/01
- CPC G02B5/005
- G02B27/00
- F21V8/00
- G06F3/01
- G06T7/73
- H04N23/56
- CPC G02B27/0093
- G02F1/13357
- G02F1/1335
- G02F1/1362
- CPC G02F1/133611
- G02F1/1343
- G06F1/16
- CPC G02F1/134318
- G06F3/038
- G06F3/02
- G06F3/0338
- G06F3/0354
- CPC G06F3/0383
- G06F30/35
- G06F5/06
- G06F30/347
- CPC G06F30/35
- G06N20/00
- CPC G06N20/00
- G06T13/20
- G06T13/40
- G06T17/00
- G06V40/16
- CPC G06T13/205
- G06T19/00
- G06T15/10
- G06V40/10
- G06V40/20
- CPC G06T19/00
- G06T17/20
- CPC G06T19/003
- G09G3/34
- G09G3/36
- CPC G09G3/3426
- H02S40/22
- G02B5/22
- G02B5/30
- G02F1/133
- CPC H02S40/22
- H04B1/40
- H04L25/49
- CPC H04B1/40
- H04M3/18
- G10L17/06
- G10L21/0208
- G10L21/0216
- CPC H04M3/18
- H04W72/0446
- H04W72/25
- CPC H04W72/0446
- H05K9/00
- H04N23/52
- H04N23/54
- H04N23/75
- CPC H05K9/0058
