Daniel B Dobson

US Patent:

7937243, May 3, 2011

Filed:

Jul 7, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/498499

Inventors:

Wei Yen - Seattle WA, US
Ian Wright - Sunnyvale CA, US
Dana Wilkinson - Mountain View CA, US
Xiaoyuan Tu - Sunnyvale CA, US
Stuart Reynolds - Mountain View CA, US
Charles Musick, Jr. - Belmont CA, US
John Funge - Sunnyvale CA, US
Daniel Dobson - Atherton CA, US

Assignee:

AiLive, Inc. - Mountain View CA

International Classification:

G06F 15/18

US Classification:

702179, 706 58, 706906, 700 47, 707E17005, 707E17006, 707E17032, 707E17058, 7079991, 707999102, 707804

Abstract:

Techniques for non-disruptive embedding of specialized elements are disclosed. In one aspect of the techniques, ontology is defined to specify an application domain. A program interface (API) is also provided for creating raw features by a developer. Thus a module is provided for at least one form of statistical analysis within the ontology. The module is configured automatically in a computing device with the API in response to a system consistent with the ontology, wherein the system has no substantial requirement for specialized knowledge of that form of statistical analysis, and the module has no substantial requirement for specialized knowledge of particular functions provided by the system.

US Patent:

8251821, Aug 28, 2012

Filed:

Nov 4, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/612656

Inventors:

Wei Yen - Seattle WA, US
Ian Wright - Sunnyvale CA, US
Xiaoyuan Tu - Sunnyvale CA, US
Stuart Reynolds - Mountain View CA, US
Charles Musick, Jr. - Belmont CA, US
John Funge - Sunnyvale CA, US
Daniel Dobson - Atherton CA, US

Assignee:

AiLive, Inc. - Mountain View CA

International Classification:

A63F 9/24

US Classification:

463 37, 463 31, 463 38

Abstract:

A movable game controller for controlling aspects of a computer controlled game display with apparatus for determining the linear and angular motion of that movable controller. The apparatus includes a plurality of self-contained inertial sensors for sensing the tri-axial linear and tri-axial angular motion of the moving controller. Each sensor is mounted at a fixed linear position and orientation with respect to the others. The linear and angular motion of the controller is computed from the correlated motion sensor readings of each of the plurality of self-contained inertial sensors.