Patents by Inventor Ben Hayden

Ben Hayden has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9420258
    Abstract: Injection of 3D metadata into a requested video is disclosed. An input video and associated metadata are received by a video hosting site. If the metadata indicates that the input video is a 3D video, the 3D video system extracts the accompanying 3D metadata and stores it in an intermediate format, which is independent of the 3D metadata format and video format of the input video. The 3D video system stores the received video in a standard 2D video format in a video database. Responsive to a video streaming request of the input video, the 3D video system determines the actual 3D metadata format based on the video format of the requested video, and injects a modified 3D metadata associated with the input video into the requested video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Huang, Andrew D. Berkheimer, Peter Bradshaw, Ben Hayden
  • Publication number: 20130346255
    Abstract: A garment box is described, the box having a plurality of side wall panels, a ceiling panel and a floor panel, and at least one retainer or a plurality of retainers for securing a garment. The retainer(s) may be (each) arranged to cooperate with (a respective) one of the panels of the box, for example with respective adjacent panels. A drop and collect cleaning system is also described. A garment to be cleaned is placed in a garment box and the garment box dropped off at a drop off location. The cleaned garment is collected in a garment box from a pre-arranged collection location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Inventors: Ben Hayden, Stephen Brady, Charles Steven Crocker
  • Patent number: 6540302
    Abstract: An article, particularly of furniture, such as a chair, at least a portion of which is shaped and decorated whereby to simulate an equivalent article having a fabric article such as a shirt arranged over it. The simulation may be achieved by the shape of the portion and/or the texture of its surface and/or surface decoration. A lower part of the chair back is formed as a suspended flap to provide flexible support of the lumbar region of a person sitting on the chair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: Stadium Products International Ltd.
    Inventors: Charles S Crocker, Ben Hayden