Patents by Inventor Gary Schmid

Gary Schmid 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).

  • Magnetic recording disk having pre-patterned surface features and planarized surface
    Patent number: 8168311
    Abstract: A magnetic recording disk with pre-patterned surface features of elevated lands and recessed grooves or trenches, like a discrete-track media (DTM) or bit-patterned media (BPM) disk, has a planarized surface. A multilayered disk overcoat is used to protect the recording layer, and at least one of the overcoat layers functions as a stop layer for terminating a chemical-mechanical polishing (CMP) process that substantially planarizes the disk. All of the layers of the multilayered overcoat are located above the lands, but none of the overcoat layers, or a number of layers less than the number of layers over the lands, is located above the recesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Netherlands B.V.
    Inventors: Charles Mathew Mate, Franck Dreyfus Rose, Kurt Allan Rubin, Steven Gary Schmid, Tushar Keshubhai Suther
  • MAGNETIC RECORDING DISK HAVING PRE-PATTERNED SURFACE FEATURES AND PLANARIZED SURFACE
    Publication number: 20110244273
    Abstract: A magnetic recording disk with pre-patterned surface features of elevated lands and recessed grooves or trenches, like a discrete-track media (DTM) or bit-patterned media (BPM) disk, has a planarized surface. A multilayered disk overcoat is used to protect the recording layer, and at least one of the overcoat layers functions as a stop layer for terminating a chemical-mechanical polishing (CMP) process that substantially planarizes the disk. All of the layers of the multilayered overcoat are located above the lands, but none of the overcoat layers, or a number of layers less than the number of layers over the lands, is located above the recesses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2010
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Inventors: Charles Mathew Mate, Franck Dreyfus Rose, Kurt Allan Rubin, Steven Gary Schmid, Tushar Keshubhai Suther
  • Protection of an electronically stored image in a first color space by the alteration of digital component in a second color space
    Patent number: 5893101
    Abstract: Digitized images are associated with English language captions and other data, collectively known as the metadata associated with the images. A natural language processing database removes ambiguities from the metadata, and the images and the metadata are stored in databases. A user formulates a search query, and natural language processing is used to determine matches between the query and the stored metadata. Images corresponding to the matches are then viewed, and desired images are selected for licensing. The license terms for selected images are displayed, and a subset of the selected images are ordered as desired by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1999
    Assignee: Systems Research & Applications Corporation
    Inventors: Aristotle Balogh, Hatte Blejer, Robert Briggs, Eugene Chen, Sharon Flank, Carmen Iannacone, John Maloney, Patrick Martin, James Rothey, Gary Schmid, David Evans, Linda T. Dozier, Michael Lorton
  • Generation, archiving, and retrieval of digital images with evoked suggestion-set captions and natural language interface
    Patent number: 5493677
    Abstract: Digitized images are associated with English language captions and other data, collectively known as the metadata associated with the images. A natural language processing database removes ambiguities from the metadata, and the images and the metadata are stored in databases. A user formulates a search query, and natural language processing is used to determine matches between the query and the stored metadata. Images corresponding to the matches are then viewed, and desired images are selected for licensing. The license terms for selected images are displayed, and a subset of the selected images are ordered as desired by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 20, 1996
    Assignee: Systems Research & Applications Corporation
    Inventors: Aristotle Balogh, Hatte Blejer, Eugene Chen, Sharon Flank, Carmen Iannacone, John Maloney, Patrick Martin, James Rothey, Gary Schmid, Linda T. Dozier, Michael Lorton