Patents by Inventor Edward Macdonald
Edward Macdonald 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).
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Publication number: 20240144414Abstract: Methods and apparatus for image processing of spherical content via hardware acceleration components. In one embodiment, an EAC image is subdivided into facets via existing software addressing and written into the memory buffers (normally used for rectilinear cubemaps) in a graphics processing unit (GPU). The EAC facets may be translated, rotated, and/or mirrored so as to align with the expected three-dimensional (3D) coordinate space. The GPU may use existing hardware accelerator logic, parallelization, and/or addressing logic to greatly improve 3D image processing effects (such as a multi-band blend using Gaussian blurs.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2024Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: GoPro, Inc.Inventors: William Edward MacDonald, Kyler William Schwartz, David A. Newman
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Patent number: 11939161Abstract: An autonomous rover including a frame having a first end and a second end longitudinally spaced from the first end and forming a payload bay, the payload bay being sized to support a pickface, a common active registration surface configured to engage the pickface, and a drive section connected to the common active registration surface, the drive section being configured to variably position the common active registration surface relative to at least one storage shelf of an automated storage and retrieval system to effect placement of the pickface on the storage shelf so that pickfaces are substantially continuously arranged along the at least one storage shelf with a predetermined storage spacing between the pickfaces.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Symbotic LLCInventors: Forrest Buzan, Michael Cyrulik, Aria Reynolds, Jason S. Sirois, Larry Sweet, Edward A. MacDonald, Taylor A. Apgar, Timothy Perrault, Stephen C. Toebes
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Publication number: 20240095729Abstract: A computer-implemented method for authenticating a user device via a device credential scoped to a common domain shared among a plurality of payment networks may be provided. The method may include receiving, by a server of a payment network, a first request redirected from a sub-domain assigned to the payment network to a domain name associated with the payment network, responsive to the first request, transmitting, to the user device, an authentication request comprising a challenge, a user identifier that identifies the user, and the common domain to which the device credential is scoped, receiving, from the user device, a response, accessing the device credential, the device credential having been stored by the payment network, validating the response based on the device credential, and causing, by the server, the user identifier and the device credential to be federated to the other ones of the plurality of payment networks based on the validating.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATEDInventors: Edward Neil LIVINGSTON, Rory MACDONALD, Robert OUELLETTE, Grace LIM, Fred M. PACHER
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Publication number: 20240051754Abstract: In accordance with one or more aspects of the disclosed embodiment, a lift includes at least one load handling device configured so as to reciprocate along a lift axis, the load handling device including a frame forming a payload section with a payload support surface having a common elevation configured to hold one or more pickfaces at the common elevation of the payload support surface, at least one transfer arm movably mounted to the frame, and a drive section connected to the load handling device and being configured to move the load handling device along the lift axis, wherein the one or more pickfaces carried in unison by the payload support surface of the at least one load handling device, define an order sequence of pickfaces on the at least one load handling device according to a predetermined case out order sequence of mixed cases.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2023Publication date: February 15, 2024Inventors: Kirill K. PANKRATOV, Juergen D. CONRAD, Robert HSIUNG, William JOHNSON, JR., Edward A. MACDONALD, Larry M. SWEET
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Patent number: 11887210Abstract: Methods and apparatus for image processing of spherical content via hardware acceleration components. In one embodiment, an EAC image is subdivided into facets via existing software addressing and written into the memory buffers (normally used for rectilinear cubemaps) in a graphics processing unit (GPU). The EAC facets may be translated, rotated, and/or mirrored so as to align with the expected three-dimensional (3D) coordinate space. The GPU may use existing hardware accelerator logic, parallelization, and/or addressing logic to greatly improve 3D image processing effects (such as a multi-band blend using Gaussian blurs.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: GoPro, Inc.Inventors: William Edward MacDonald, Kyler William Schwartz, David A. Newman
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Publication number: 20240025640Abstract: A storage array system including an open undeterministic transport surface, a navigation array disposed in connection with the transport surface, the navigation array includes a distributed feature, a first waypoint at a first position of the distributed feature, a second waypoint displaced from the first waypoint along the distributed feature and offset with respect to the first waypoint in a direction angled to the distributed feature, and a guided bot, arranged to traverse the transport surface, with a non-holonomic steering system, the guided bot having a bot pose determination system employing sensor data detecting the distributed feature, wherein the guided bot includes a controller configured to generate a substantially smooth curved bot traverse path on the transport surface connecting the first and second waypoints with a predetermined optimal trajectory of the guided bot along the traverse path determined based on a bot dynamic model.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Edward A MACDONALD, Forrest BUZAN, John F KEATING, Juergen D CONRAD, Armin ATAEI-ESFAHANI
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Publication number: 20230410251Abstract: Apparatus and methods for optimized stitching of overcapture content. In one embodiment, the optimized stitching of the overcapture content includes capturing the overcapture content; producing overlap bands associated with the captured overcapture content; downsampling the produced overlap bands; generating derivative images from the downsampled overlap bands; generating a cost map associated with the generated derivative images; determining shortest path information for the generated cost map; generating a warp file based on the determined shortest path information, the generated warp file being utilized for the optimized stitching of the overcapture content. Camera apparatus and a non-transitory computer-readable apparatus are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: GoPro, Inc.Inventors: Daryl Stimm, David Newman, Kyler William Schwartz, William Edward MacDonald
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Publication number: 20230412788Abstract: A viewing direction may define an angle/visual portion of a spherical video at which a viewing window is directed. A trajectory of viewing direction may include changes in viewing directions for playback of spherical video. Abrupt changes in the viewing directions may result in jerky or shaky views of the spherical video. Changes in the viewing directions may be stabilized to provide stabilized views of the spherical video. Amount of stabilization may be limited by a margin constraint.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Inventors: Daryl Stimm, William Edward MacDonald, Kyler William Schwartz
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Publication number: 20230394570Abstract: Provided is a financial transaction arrangement 1 which generally comprises a distributed processing arrangement and includes an identification service computing system 2, a financial institution computing system 3, a property registry computing system 4, a lender computing system 5, an appraiser 6, and a mortgage brokering computing system 8. All of these computing systems 2, 3, 4, 5 and 8 are interconnected by means of communications network 200 which incorporates a blockchain. Via a number of transactions, the mortgage brokering computing system 8 generates aggregate blockchains on the network 200 able to provide a demonstrable and auditable history for captured identification details and subsequent transactions required for automatically brokering a mortgage.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2023Publication date: December 7, 2023Inventors: Ruth Hatherley, Jonathan Edward Macdonald
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Publication number: 20230391551Abstract: An automated storage and retrieval system including at least one autonomous rover for transferring payload within the system and including a communicator, a multilevel storage structure, each level allowing traversal of the at least one autonomous rover, at least one registration station disposed at predetermined locations on each level and being configured to communicate with the communicator to at least receive rover identification information, and a controller in communication with the at least one registration station and configured to receive the at least rover identification information and at least one of register the at least one autonomous rover as being on a level corresponding to a respective one of the at least one registration station or deregister the at least one autonomous rover from the system, where the controller effects induction of the at least one autonomous rover into a predetermined rover space on the level.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2023Publication date: December 7, 2023Inventors: Forrest BUZAN, Edward A. MACDONALD, Taylor A. APGAR, Thomas A. SCHAEFER, Melanie ZIEGLER, Russell G. BARBOUR
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Patent number: 11787634Abstract: In accordance with one or more aspects of the disclosed embodiment, a lift includes at least one load handling device configured so as to reciprocate along a lift axis, the load handling device including a frame forming a payload section with a payload support surface having a common elevation configured to hold one or more pickfaces at the common elevation of the payload support surface, at least one transfer arm movably mounted to the frame, and a drive section connected to the load handling device and being configured to move the load handling device along the lift axis, wherein the one or more pickfaces carried in unison by the payload support surface of the at least one load handling device, define an order sequence of pickfaces on the at least one load handling device according to a predetermined case out order sequence of mixed cases.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: SYMBOTIC LLCInventors: Kirill K. Pankratov, Juergen D. Conrad, Robert Hsiung, William Johnson, Jr., Edward A. Macdonald, Larry M. Sweet
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Patent number: 11783447Abstract: Apparatus and methods for optimized stitching of overcapture content. In one embodiment, the optimized stitching of the overcapture content includes capturing the overcapture content; producing overlap bands associated with the captured overcapture content; downsampling the produced overlap bands; generating derivative images from the downsampled overlap bands; generating a cost map associated with the generated derivative images; determining shortest path information for the generated cost map; generating a warp file based on the determined shortest path information, the generated warp file being utilized for the optimized stitching of the overcapture content. Camera apparatus and a non-transitory computer-readable apparatus are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: GoPro, Inc.Inventors: Daryl Stimm, David Newman, Kyler William Schwartz, William Edward MacDonald
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Publication number: 20230308601Abstract: Multiple framings of a video may define different positionings of a viewing window at different moments within the video. The positionings of the viewing window defined by the multiple framings may be used as fixed positionings of the viewing window in a viewing path. The viewing path may define changes in the positioning of the viewing window between the fixed positionings. A presentation of the video may be generated to include the extents of the video within the viewing window.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2023Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Daryl Stimm, Kyler William Schwartz, William Edward MacDonald
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Patent number: 11760570Abstract: A storage array system including an open undeterministic transport surface, a navigation array disposed in connection with the transport surface, the navigation array includes a distributed feature, a first waypoint at a first position of the distributed feature, a second waypoint displaced from the first waypoint along the distributed feature and offset with respect to the first waypoint in a direction angled to the distributed feature, and a guided bot, arranged to traverse the transport surface, with a non-holonomic steering system, the guided bot having a bot pose determination system employing sensor data detecting the distributed feature, wherein the guided bot includes a controller configured to generate a substantially smooth curved bot traverse path on the transport surface connecting the first and second waypoints with a predetermined optimal trajectory of the guided bot along the traverse path determined based on a bot dynamic model.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Symbotic LLCInventors: Edward A MacDonald, Forrest Buzan, John F Keating, Juergen D Conrad, Armin Ataei-Esfahani
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Patent number: 11750790Abstract: A viewing direction may define an angle/visual portion of a spherical video at which a viewing window is directed. A trajectory of viewing direction may include changes in viewing directions for playback of spherical video. Abrupt changes in the viewing directions may result in jerky or shaky views of the spherical video. Changes in the viewing directions may be stabilized to provide stabilized views of the spherical video. Amount of stabilization may be limited by a margin constraint.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: GoPro, Inc.Inventors: Daryl Stimm, William Edward MacDonald, Kyler William Schwartz
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Patent number: 11718475Abstract: An automated storage and retrieval system including at least one autonomous rover for transferring payload within the system and including a communicator, a multilevel storage structure, each level allowing traversal of the at least one autonomous rover, at least one registration station disposed at predetermined locations on each level and being configured to communicate with the communicator to at least receive rover identification information, and a controller in communication with the at least one registration station and configured to receive the at least rover identification information and at least one of register the at least one autonomous rover as being on a level corresponding to a respective one of the at least one registration station or deregister the at least one autonomous rover from the system, where the controller effects induction of the at least one autonomous rover into a predetermined rover space on the level.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Symbotic LLCInventors: Forrest Buzan, Edward A. Macdonald, Taylor A. Apgar, Thomas A. Schaefer, Melanie Ziegler, Russell G. Barbour
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Patent number: 11683440Abstract: Multiple framings of a video may define different positionings of a viewing window at different moments within the video. The positionings of the viewing window defined by the multiple framings may be used as fixed positionings of the viewing window in a viewing path. The viewing path may define changes in the positioning of the viewing window between the fixed positionings. A presentation of the video may be generated to include the extents of the video within the viewing window.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2022Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: GoPro, Inc.Inventors: Daryl Stimm, Kyler William Schwartz, William Edward MacDonald
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Patent number: 11634279Abstract: An automated storage and retrieval system including at least one autonomous transport vehicle, a transfer deck that defines an undeterministic transport surface for the at least one autonomous transport vehicle, the transfer deck having multiple travel lanes, at least one vertically reciprocating lift, and at least one pickface handoff station connected to the transfer deck and interfacing between the at least one autonomous transport vehicle on the transfer deck and the at least one vertically reciprocating lift so that a pickface is transferred between the at least one vertically reciprocating and the at least one autonomous transport vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: SYMBOTIC LLCInventors: Kirill K. Pankratov, Juergen D. Conrad, Robert Hsiung, Edward A. MacDonald, Larry M. Sweet
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Publication number: 20230120472Abstract: Provided is a financial transaction arrangement 1 which generally comprises a distributed processing arrangement and includes an identification service computing system 2, a financial institution computing system 3, a property registry computing system 4, a lender computing system 5, an appraiser 6, and a mortgage brokering computing system 8. All of these computing systems 2, 3, 4, 5 and 8 are interconnected by means of communications network 200 which incorporates a blockchain. Via a number of transactions, the mortgage brokering computing system 8 generates aggregate blockchains on the network 200 able to provide a demonstrable and auditable history for captured identification details and subsequent transactions required for automatically brokering a mortgage.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Inventors: Ruth Hatherley, Jonathan Edward Macdonald
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Publication number: 20230034490Abstract: Multiple framings of a video may define different positionings of a viewing window at different moments within the video. The positionings of the viewing window defined by the multiple framings may be used as fixed positionings of the viewing window in a viewing path. The viewing path may define changes in the positioning of the viewing window between the fixed positionings. A presentation of the video may be generated to include the extents of the video within the viewing window.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: Daryl Stimm, Kyler William Schwartz, William Edward MacDonald