Jason Richard Fox

US Patent:

6847888, Jan 25, 2005

Filed:

Mar 6, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/383377

Inventors:

Jason Fox - Thousand Oaks CA, US
Michael J. Daily - Thousand Oaks CA, US

Assignee:

HRL Laboratories, LLC - Malibu CA

International Classification:

G01C 2132
G06F 1730
G06F 1700

US Classification:

701208, 701212, 707100

Abstract:

A method for transforming a map based on associated geospatial data. A map is segmented into logical segments representing map-based entities. The geospatial data is then associated with the logical segments. The logical segments are scaled based upon the associated data. The logical segments are then repositioned to avoid overlapping other logical segments and a new map display based on the scaled and repositioned logical segments is provided.

US Patent:

7599902, Oct 6, 2009

Filed:

Apr 27, 2006

Appl. No.:

11/413904

Inventors:

Jason Fox - Thousand Oaks CA, US
Chris Furmanski - Piedmont CA, US
Collin Green - Mountain View CA, US

Assignee:

HRL Laboratories, LLC - Malibu CA

International Classification:

G06N 7/04

US Classification:

706 54, 700 44, 700 79

Abstract:

The present invention relates to a general-purpose analogical reasoning system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a high-performance, semantic-based hybrid architecture for analogical reasoning, capable of finding correspondences between a novel situation and a known situation using relational symmetries, object similarities, or a combination of the two. The system is a high-performance symbolic connectionist model which multiplexes activation across a non-temporal dimension and uses controlled activation flow based on an analogical network structure. The system uses incremental inference to stop inference early for object correspondence, uses initial mappings to constrain future mappings, uses inferred mappings to synchronize activation, and independent mapping based on roles, superficial similarity, or composites.

US Patent:

7646394, Jan 12, 2010

Filed:

Mar 7, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/075354

Inventors:

Howard Neely, III - Manhattan Beach CA, US
Jason Fox - Thousand Oaks CA, US
Mathias Kolsch - Pacific Grove CA, US
Matt Shomphe - Los Angeles CA, US
Jason Jarald - Chapel Hill NC, US
Mike Daily - Thousand Oaks CA, US

Assignee:

HRL Laboratories, LLC - Malibu CA
Raytheon Systems - Waltham MA

International Classification:

G09G 5/00
G06T 15/00
G06F 3/033

US Classification:

345633, 345419, 715863

Abstract:

The present invention relates to a system, method and computer program product for enabling user interaction with objects in a virtual environment independently of apparent virtual viewpoint altitude, by non-linearly scaling the virtual actuator. In doing so, the system receives a virtual-viewpoint position and a virtual actuator position from a virtual environment processing subsystem, and a real-viewpoint position and a real-actuator position from a real-world environment tracking subsystem. An xy-scale factor is then calculated based on the virtual-viewpoint position. A non-linear mapping is thereafter calculated between a real dataset and a virtual dataset based on the xy-scale-factor. The real dataset comprises the real-actuator position and the real-viewpoint position in the real-world environment, and the virtual dataset comprises the virtual-actuator position and the virtual-viewpoint position in the virtual environment.

US Patent:

7667700, Feb 23, 2010

Filed:

Mar 7, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/074496

Inventors:

Howard Neely, III - Manhattan Beach CA, US
Jason Fox - Thousand Oaks CA, US
Mike Daily - Thousand Oaks CA, US

Assignee:

HRL Laboratories, LLC - Malibu CA

International Classification:

G06T 15/10

US Classification:

345427, 345419, 345421, 345473, 434 11

Abstract:

The present invention relates to a system, method and computer program product for navigating within a virtual environment (VE). More specifically, the present invention relates to navigating large distances in a VE, without becoming disoriented and without becoming cybersick due to exposure to excessive amounts of optical flow. In one embodiment, the present invention combines jumping and flying to allow for quick navigation of large distances, while preserving a sense of orientation and limiting optical flow.

US Patent:

7893935, Feb 22, 2011

Filed:

Nov 30, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/592686

Inventors:

Howard Neely, III - Santa Monica CA, US
Jason Fox - Fairfield CA, US
Mathias Kolsch - Pacific Grove CA, US
Matthew Shomphe - Los Angeles CA, US
Jason Jerald - Chapel Hill NC, US

Assignee:

HRL Laboratories, LLC - Malibu CA

International Classification:

G06T 15/00
G09G 5/00

US Classification:

345419, 345633

Abstract:

The present invention relates to a system, method, and computer program product for immersive navigation in a virtual environment (VE) suitable for allowing a user to change a view orientation in the VE independently of physical orientation of a user input, such as orientation of the user's head. Specifically, the present invention combines three distinct virtual reality navigation metaphors (trackball navigation, grab navigation, and immersive navigation) into a hybrid navigation approach generating a final virtual-viewpoint that correlates to the characteristics of an intermediate virtual-viewpoint defined by radius, pitch, and heading of a virtual reference sphere (as in trackball navigation), while the final virtual-viewpoint also adjusts the location and gaze direction of the intermediate virtual-viewpoint based on pitch, heading, and roll of the user's head (as in immersive navigation), thus allowing the user to view a point of interest in the VE while simultaneously facing comfortably forward in the physical world.

US Patent:

7269623, Sep 11, 2007

Filed:

Jan 9, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/339265

Inventors:

Jason R. Fox - Thousand Oaks CA, US
Peter A. Tinker - West Hills CA, US
Jason J. Jerald - Chapel Hill NC, US

Assignee:

Raytheon Company - Waltham MA

International Classification:

G06F 15/16

US Classification:

709205, 709204

Abstract:

A distributed multimodal collaboration system includes at least one server coupled to a network, a plurality of data sources coupled to the network and a plurality of clients executing on a corresponding plurality of client workstations coupled to the network. The system further includes a tuple-space having a plurality of descriptors. The tuple-space is accessible by the plurality of data sources, and the plurality of clients, and a descriptor distribution and invalidation protocol is operative to distribute and invalidate descriptors accessible by the plurality of clients and the plurality of data sources, and the system includes a transaction processor for committing a plurality of transactions associated with the descriptor distribution and invalidation protocol.

US Patent:

20040123320, Jun 24, 2004

Filed:

Dec 23, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/329330

Inventors:

Mike Daily - Thousand Oaks CA, US
David Payton - Calabasas CA, US
Jason Fox - Thousand Oaks CA, US

International Classification:

G06F013/00
H04N005/445
G06F003/00

US Classification:

725/061000, 725/043000, 725/039000, 725/040000

Abstract:

An interactive multimedia selection guide is provided. The guide includes a computer system having a processor, a memory, an input for receiving user input, an input for receiving programs from a program database, and an output for sending display information to a visual display. The interactive guide navigates through a graph structure of multimedia program/channel sources in the program database. The graph structure includes a plurality of nodes representing multimedia and contextual information. Programs and channels as well as groups of programs and channels are represented as nodes in the graph, and as icons or native format representations on a display device. Navigation through the graph structure is performed by allowing the user to affect panning of the visual display, zooming-in of a desired portion of the visual display, zooming-out of a desired portion of the visual display, selection of a node represented by an icon, and retracing.

US Patent:

20050035101, Feb 17, 2005

Filed:

Sep 21, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/946223

Inventors:

Stephen Jones - Saugus CA, US
Klaus Kleine - Los Gatos CA, US
Brad Whitney - Oakland CA, US
Yu-Chun Ku - Mountain View CA, US
Jason Fox - Sunnyvale CA, US

International Classification:

B23K026/38

US Classification:

219121720

Abstract:

An improved expandable stent for implantation in a body lumen, such as an artery, and an improved method for making it from a single length of tubing. The stent consists of a plurality of radially expandable cut cylindrical elements generally aligned on a common axis and interconnected by one or more interconnective elements, the elements having a rectangular cross-section from cut-to-cut. The individual radially expandable cylindrical elements are disposed in an undulating pattern. The stent is manufactured by direct laser cutting from a single metal tube using a finely focused laser beam originating from a diode pumped fiber laser with an external pulse generator and passing through a coaxial gas jet structure to impinge on the working surface of the tube as the linear and rotary velocity of the tube is precisely controlled. To optimize the cut, the laser parameters may be adjusted and/or the laser pulse may be shaped.