Frederick Umminger — 20 Patents at Sony

Frederick Umminger has been granted 20 US patents while listed as an inventor at Sony. The first was granted in 2003 and the most recent in September 2025. Frederick Umminger ranks #214,803 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 5.2%). Patent records list Frederick Umminger in Oakland, CA, US.

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Patent #	Title	Co-Inventors	Date	Approx Value ⓘ
12407998	Audio streams in mixed voice chat in a virtual environment	—	2025-09-02
12302085	Spatialized audio chat in a virtual metaverse	Hitesh Chhabra, Philippe Clavel, Plamen Dragozov, Jason Lawrence Golubock, Palmer Noel Hogen +4 more	2025-05-13
12167225	Distributed processing of sounds in virtual environments	Philippe Clavel, Paul Kerr, David O'Neal, Alex ZHUKOV	2024-12-10	$410,161,000
11899835	Control of personal space content presented via head mounted display	Jeffrey Roger Stafford, Richard Marks	2024-02-13	$515,000
11442532	Control of personal space content presented via head mounted display	Jeffrey Roger Stafford, Richard Marks	2022-09-13	$512,000
10775878	Control of personal space content presented via head mounted display	Jeffrey Roger Stafford, Richard Marks	2020-09-15	$907,000
10623735	Method and system for layer based view optimization encoding of 360-degree video	Jiandong Shen, Crusoe Xiaodong Mao, Brian Michael Christopher Watson	2020-04-14
10616551	Method and system for constructing view from multiple video streams	Brian Michael Christopher Watson, Crusoe Xiaodong Mao, Jiandong Shen	2020-04-07
10425643	Method and system for view optimization of a 360 degrees video	Jiandong Shen, Crusoe Xiaodong Mao, Brian Michael Christopher Watson	2019-09-24
10332242	Method and system for reconstructing 360-degree video	Jiandong Shen, Crusoe Xiaodong Mao, Brian Michael Christopher Watson	2019-06-25
10210666	Filtering and parental control methods for restricting visual activity on a head mounted display	Jeffrey Roger Stafford, Steven Osman	2019-02-19	$663,000
10073516	Methods and systems for user interaction within virtual reality scene using head mounted display	Eric Larsen, Xiaoyong Ye, Noam Rimon, Jeffrey Roger Stafford, Xia Lou	2018-09-11	$649,000
10055018	Glove interface object with thumb-index controller	Todd Tokubo	2018-08-21	$1,378,000
10022625	Peripheral devices having dynamic weight distribution to convey sense of weight in HMD environments	Glenn Black	2018-07-17	$601,000
9928728	Scheme for embedding a control signal in an audio signal using pseudo white noise	—	2018-03-27	$690,000
9779554	Filtering and parental control methods for restricting visual activity on a head mounted display	Jeffrey Roger Stafford, Steven Osman	2017-10-03	$391,000
9769589	Method of improving externalization of virtual surround sound	Scott Wardle	2017-09-19	$325,000
9744449	Peripheral devices having dynamic weight distribution to convey sense of weight in HMD environments	Glenn Black	2017-08-29	$423,000
6704671	System and method of identifying the onset of a sonic event	—	2004-03-09	$6,987,000
6594601	System and method of aligning signals	David Martin Lebolt, Andrew H. Cook	2003-07-15	$17,029,000

Frederick Umminger — 20 Patents

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