Patents by Inventor Eric Damery
Eric Damery 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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Patent number: 10481775Abstract: A method of locking magnified screen views including the steps of magnifying a portion of a graphic user interface on a first monitor to establish a first magnified view having upper, lower, left and right boundaries, magnifying a portion of the graphic user interface on a second monitor to establish a second magnified view having upper, lower, left and right boundaries, whereby the graphic user interface of the first monitor is extended in the direction of the second monitor, responsive to an end-user selectable setting, restricting pointer indicia movement to an area defined by the boundaries of each view that are not between first and second monitor, and responsive to pointer indicia moving from first monitor towards second monitor displaying pointer indicia within second magnified view responsive to pointer indicia crossing the boundary of first magnified view in the direction of second monitor.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2017Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Freedom Scientific, Inc.Inventors: Garald Lee Voorhees, Glen Gordon, Eric Damery, Daniel Simkovitz
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Patent number: 9818313Abstract: A screen reader software product feature referred to as a custom summary view, or custom summary, has been developed. The custom summary feature solves the major problem faced by blind users when working with large sets of data. That problem occurs as a result of an inefficiency of gleaning important data from within these larger sets. The custom summary provides the ability to gather such data into a summary that can be navigated easily. This ease of navigation greatly levels the playing field in the competitive workplace for blind workers and students alike. Also taught is a feature, referred to as a multiple region support, which allows users to define blocks of contiguous cells containing data as “regions” when a document such as a spreadsheet is displayed by a screen reader. Regions can either be named by the user or be defined simply by the top left and bottom right cell addresses that represent the boundaries of the block of contiguous cells containing data.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2007Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: Freedom Scientific, Inc.Inventors: Eric Damery, Joseph Stephen, Olga Espinola
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Publication number: 20170131880Abstract: A method of locking magnified screen views including the steps of magnifying a portion of a graphic user interface on a first monitor to establish a first magnified view having upper, lower, left and right boundaries, magnifying a portion of the graphic user interface on a second monitor to establish a second magnified view having upper, lower, left and right boundaries, whereby the graphic user interface of the first monitor is extended in the direction of the second monitor, responsive to an end-user selectable setting, restricting pointer indicia movement to an area defined by the boundaries of each view that are not between first and second monitor, and responsive to pointer indicia moving from first monitor towards second monitor displaying pointer indicia within second magnified view responsive to pointer indicia crossing the boundary of first magnified view in the direction of second monitor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2017Publication date: May 11, 2017Applicant: Freedom Scientific, Inc.Inventors: Garald Lee Voorhees, Glen Gordon, Eric Damery, Daniel Simkovitz
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Patent number: 9626069Abstract: A method of locking magnified screen views including the steps of magnifying a portion of a graphic user interface on a first monitor to establish a first magnified view having upper, lower, left and right boundaries, magnifying a portion of the graphic user interface on a second monitor to establish a second magnified view having upper, lower, left and right boundaries, whereby the graphic user interface of the first monitor is extended in the direction of the second monitor, responsive to an end-user selectable setting, restricting pointer indicia movement to an area defined by the boundaries of each view that are not between first and second monitor, and responsive to pointer indicia moving from first monitor towards second monitor displaying pointer indicia within second magnified view responsive to pointer indicia crossing the boundary of first magnified view in the direction of second monitor.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2012Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Freedom Scientific, Inc.Inventors: Garald Lee Voorhees, Glen Gordon, Eric Damery, Daniel Simkovitz
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Patent number: 9575624Abstract: The amount of speech output to a blind or low-vision user using a screen reader application is automatically adjusted based on how the user navigates to a control in a graphic user interface. Navigation by mouse presumes the user has greater knowledge of the identity of the control than navigation by tab keystroke which is more indicative of a user searching for a control. In addition, accelerator keystrokes indicate a higher level of specificity to set focus on a control and thus less verbosity is required to sufficiently inform the screen reader user.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2014Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: Freedom ScientificInventors: Garald Lee Voorhees, Glen Gordon, Eric Damery
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Patent number: 9263026Abstract: A screen reader software product for low-vision users, the software having a reader module collecting textual and non-textual display information generated by a web browser or word processor. Font styling, interface layout information and the like are communicated to the end user by sounds broadcast simultaneously rather than serially with the synthesized speech to improve the speed and efficiency in which information may be digested by the end user.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2014Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: Freedom Scientific, Inc.Inventors: Christian D. Hofstader, Glen Gordon, Eric Damery, Ralph Ocampo, David Baker, Joseph K. Stephen
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Publication number: 20150033183Abstract: A method of locking magnified screen views including the steps of magnifying a portion of a graphic user interface on a first monitor to establish a first magnified view having upper, lower, left and right boundaries, magnifying a portion of the graphic user interface on a second monitor to establish a second magnified view having upper, lower, left and right boundaries, whereby the graphic user interface of the first monitor is extended in the direction of the second monitor, responsive to an end-user selectable setting, restricting pointer indicia movement to an area defined by the boundaries of each view that are not between first and second monitor, and responsive to pointer indicia moving from first monitor towards second monitor displaying pointer indicia within second magnified view responsive to pointer indicia crossing the boundary of first magnified view in the direction of second monitor.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2013Publication date: January 29, 2015Applicant: Freedom Scientific, Inc.Inventors: Garald Lee Voorhees, Glen Gordon, Eric Damery, Daniel Simkovitz
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Publication number: 20140380157Abstract: The amount of speech output to a blind or low-vision user using a screen reader application is automatically adjusted based on how the user navigates to a control in a graphic user interface. Navigation by mouse presumes the user has greater knowledge of the identity of the control than navigation by tab keystroke which is more indicative of a user searching for a control. In addition, accelerator keystrokes indicate a higher level of specificity to set focus on a control and thus less verbosity is required to sufficiently inform the screen reader user.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2014Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventors: Garald Lee Voorhees, Glen Gordon, Eric Damery
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Publication number: 20140324438Abstract: A screen reader software product for low-vision users, the software having a reader module collecting textual and non-textual display information generated by a web browser or word processor. Font styling, interface layout information and the like are communicated to the end user by sounds broadcast simultaneously rather than serially with the synthesized speech to improve the speed and efficiency in which information may be digested by the end user.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2014Publication date: October 30, 2014Inventors: Christian D. Hofstader, Glen Gordon, Eric Damery, Ralph Ocampo, David Baker, Joseph K. Stephen
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Patent number: 8868426Abstract: The amount of speech output to a blind or low-vision user using a screen reader application is automatically adjusted based on how the user navigates to a control in a graphic user interface. Navigation by mouse presumes the user has greater knowledge of the identity of the control than navigation by tab keystroke which is more indicative of a user searching for a control. In addition, accelerator keystrokes indicate a higher level of specificity to set focus on a control and thus less verbosity is required to sufficiently inform the screen reader user.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2012Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Freedom Scientific, Inc.Inventors: Garald Lee Voorhees, Glen Gordon, Eric Damery
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Patent number: 8826137Abstract: A screen reader software product for low-vision users, the software having a reader module collecting textual and non-textual display information generated by a web browser or word processor. Font styling, interface layout information and the like are communicated to the end user by sounds broadcast simultaneously rather than serially with the synthesized speech to improve the speed and efficiency in which information may be digested by the end user.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2004Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Freedom Scientific, Inc.Inventors: Christian D. Hofstader, Glen Gordon, Eric Damery, Ralph Ocampo, David Baker, Joseph K. Stephen
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Publication number: 20140058733Abstract: The amount of speech output to a blind or low-vision user using a screen reader application is automatically adjusted based on how the user navigates to a control in a graphic user interface. Navigation by mouse presumes the user has greater knowledge of the identity of the control than navigation by tab keystroke which is more indicative of a user searching for a control. In addition, accelerator keystrokes indicate a higher level of specificity to set focus on a control and thus less verbosity is required to sufficiently inform the screen reader user.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2012Publication date: February 27, 2014Applicant: FREEDOM SCIENTIFIC, INC.Inventors: Garald Lee Voorhees, Glen Gordon, Eric Damery
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Patent number: 8366447Abstract: A screen reader software product including a pattern store containing at least one user-definable array of keywords relating to a subject of interest and skim reading module adapted to apply the at least one array of keywords to a target document whereby only portions of the target document matching the at least one array of keywords are output by the screen reader software to an end user.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2005Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignee: Freedom Scientific, Inc.Inventors: Glen Gordon, Joseph K Stephen, Eric Damery, Ralph E Ocampo
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Patent number: 8092221Abstract: A speech-generating product for controlling the output of tabular or other composite data in a computer having a screen reader function. The product provides a customized control presentation tool that configures a screen reader to present tabular or other composite data to a user in the order most useful to the user. The tool includes the ability to configure the screen reader independently for both speech and Braille output on a control by control basis. This customized control presentation is saved in permanent storage. Consequently, each time the screen reader is presented with this instance of the control, the screen reader immediately knows how to present it to the user. The software product allows a user to modify the output by the screen reader of the data according to preferences configurable by the user.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2005Date of Patent: January 10, 2012Assignee: Freedom Scientific, Inc.Inventors: Joseph Stephen, Eric Damery
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Patent number: 8028240Abstract: A screen reader feature is described that enables end users to assign their own descriptions to forms and navigational elements in electronic documents such as web pages, word processing documents and portable document formats. The form or navigational element is identified by the end user. A dialog box provides a text entry box for accepting a user-defined description. The description is saved in association with the document and its particular form or navigational element.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2005Date of Patent: September 27, 2011Assignee: Freedom Scientific, Inc.Inventors: Joseph Stephen, Eric Damery
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Patent number: 7818664Abstract: The present invention is a computer software product and method including an XML parsing module, a translation module communicatively coupled to the XML parsing module and an output module communicatively coupled to the translation module, the output module configurable by the end user to execute a predefined event responsive to the processing of an associated XML tag. The predefined event may be selected from a group consisting of audio output modification, visual output modification, and tactile output modification. These output modifications may include, but are not limited to, voice inflection, voice gender, voice volume, voice pitch, voice speed, visual display modification, visual display cues, tactile device output modification and the like.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2005Date of Patent: October 19, 2010Assignee: Freedom Scientific, Inc.Inventors: Glen Gordon, Christian Hofstader, Joseph Stephen, Eric Damery
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Patent number: 7407335Abstract: A Braille display for use by blind and low vision users. The Braille display can be detachably mounted on a notetaker which includes either a Braille keyboard or a conventional QWERTY keyboard and a memory for storing in digital form information which is entered through the keyboard. Preferably, the Braille display includes a conventional port for connecting through a cable to a personal computer or other computer operated device for displaying information.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2003Date of Patent: August 5, 2008Assignee: Freedom Scientific Inc.Inventors: Eric Damery, Lee Hamilton, Glen Gordon, Bradley S. Davis, Casimir M. Wojcik, Sharon Spencer, Chris Hofstader
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Publication number: 20070168891Abstract: A screen reader software product feature referred to as a custom summary view, or custom summary, has been developed. The custom summary feature solves the major problem faced by blind users when working with large sets of data. That problem occurs as a result of an inefficiency of gleaning important data from within these larger sets. The custom summary provides the ability to gather such data into a summary that can be navigated easily. This ease of navigation greatly levels the playing field in the competitive workplace for blind workers and students alike. Also taught is a feature, referred to as a multiple region support, which allows users to define blocks of contiguous cells containing data as “regions” when a document such as a spreadsheet is displayed by a screen reader. Regions can either be named by the user or be defined simply by the top left and bottom right cell addresses that represent the boundaries of the block of contiguous cells containing data.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2007Publication date: July 19, 2007Applicant: FREEDOM SCIENTIFIC, INC.Inventors: Eric Damery, Joseph Stephen, Olga Espinola
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Publication number: 20060200757Abstract: A screen reader feature is described that enables end users to assign their own descriptions to forms and navigational elements in electronic documents such as web pages, word processing documents and portable document formats. The form or navigational element is identified by the end user. A dialog box provides a text entry box for accepting a user-defined description. The description is saved in association with the document and its particular form or navigational element.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2005Publication date: September 7, 2006Applicant: FREEDOM SCIENTIFIC, INC.Inventors: Joseph Stephen, Eric Damery
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Publication number: 20060115799Abstract: A speech-generating product for controlling the output of tabular or other composite data in a computer having a screen reader function. The product provides a customized control presentation tool that configures a screen reader to present tabular or other composite data to a user in the order most useful to the user. The tool includes the ability to configure the screen reader independently for both speech and Braille output on a control by control basis. This customized control presentation is saved in permanent storage. Consequently, each time the screen reader is presented with this instance of the control, the screen reader immediately knows how to present it to the user. The software product allows a user to modify the output by the screen reader of the data according to preferences configurable by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2005Publication date: June 1, 2006Applicant: FREEDOM SCIENTIFICInventors: Joseph Stephen, Eric Damery