Patents by Inventor Gregory F. Carlson
Gregory F. Carlson 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: 8605699Abstract: An apparatus and method are disclosed to communicate, from a first device to a wireless device, information by which the wireless device may identify an access point as a potential network device. The information is encoded in a packet stream by the first device, and wirelessly communicated from the access point to the wireless device. The information may be encoded by varying a packet characteristic, such as packet length, that is preserved even if the packets are encoded by the access point. The information may include a beacon, a SSID and/or a key.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2012Date of Patent: December 10, 2013Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.Inventors: Gary D. Zimmerman, Lyman Leonard Hall, Gregory F. Carlson, Jeff James
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Patent number: 8596536Abstract: An image forming apparatus, which may be a printer, includes an image acquisition subsystem and a processing subsystem. The image acquisition subsystem includes an imager and a source. The imager is configured to scan an image while the image acquisition subsystem moves with respect to the image forming apparatus and configured to provide electrical signals including information related to the scanned image. The source is configured to emanate electromagnetic radiation based on the electrical signals. The processing subsystem includes a receiving component configured to receive the electromagnetic radiation emanated from the source of the image acquisition subsystem. The image forming apparatus also includes a structure supporting both the image acquisition subsystem and the processing subsystem.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2012Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Marvell International Technology Ltd.Inventors: Steven M Goss, Gregory F Carlson, Ronald G Paul, Todd A McClelland, Randall L Stockberger, Jr., Jerry A Marshall, Jr.
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Patent number: 8547393Abstract: Embodiments provide methods, apparatus, and systems for environmental lighting compensation in imaging devices. Environmental characteristics, including ambient light, may be accounted for in order to optimize an output.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2013Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.Inventors: Daniel Blum, Gregory F. Carlson, Keith Austin Prickett, William F. Dabelstein
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Patent number: 8542412Abstract: A flatbed scanner includes a housing, a transparent platen atop the housing for receiving an object to be scanned, and a carriage operable to travel along a horizontal direction and a vertical direction. The carriage includes a light source for illuminating the object and a rectangular photodetector array for simultaneously detecting light intensity of multiple scan lines.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2009Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignee: Marvell International Technology Ltd.Inventors: J. Daren Bledsoe, Gregory F. Carlson, Todd A. McClelland, Patrick A. McKinley
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Patent number: 8511778Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for a handheld image translation device are described herein. The handheld image translation device may include an image capture module to capture surface images of a medium and a positioning module to determine positioning information based at least in part on navigational measurements and/or the captured surface images. A print module of the handheld image translation device may cause print forming substances to be deposited based at least in part on the positioning information. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2012Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.Inventors: James Mealy, James D. Bledsoe, Todd A. McClelland, Gregory F Carlson, Gopi Paramesh, Asher Simmons
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Patent number: 8462379Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for determining an end of printing operation in a handheld image translation device are described herein. The determining of the end of the printing operation may include generation and maintenance of a processed image by an image processing module and a print module, respectively. The print module may rewrite print data of the processed image as the printing operation progresses.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2011Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.Inventors: Asher Simmons, James D. Bledsoe, Todd A. McClelland, Gregory F. Carlson
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Patent number: 8400645Abstract: A system comprising a processor and a memory comprising firmware is provided. The firmware is executable by the processor to cause the processor to operate a print mechanism in accordance with a first state associated with a capability of the print mechanism, change the first state associated with the capability to a second state in response to receiving first information from an external interface, and operate the print mechanism in accordance with the second state associated with the capability.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2004Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: Marvell International Technology Ltd.Inventors: James D. Bledsoe, Gregory F. Carlson, Todd A. McClelland, Patrick A. McKinley
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Patent number: 8395640Abstract: Embodiments provide methods, apparatus, and systems for environmental lighting compensation in imaging devices. Environmental characteristics, including ambient light, may be accounted for in order to optimize an output.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2009Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.Inventors: Daniel Blum, Gregory F. Carlson, Keith Austin Prickett, William F. Dabelstein, Jr.
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Patent number: 8351062Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for selecting bits from a defined print image in memory of a handheld imaging translation device are described herein. The bits may be selected by determining a location of a print nozzle, mapping the location to a memory location, and selecting a bit from the memory location. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2008Date of Patent: January 8, 2013Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.Inventors: James D. Bledsoe, Todd A. McClelland, Gregory F. Carlson, Asher Simmons
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Publication number: 20120327857Abstract: An apparatus and method are disclosed to communicate, from a first device to a wireless device, information by which the wireless device may identify an access point as a potential network device. The information is encoded in a packet stream by the first device, and wirelessly communicated from the access point to the wireless device. The information may be encoded by varying a packet characteristic, such as packet length, that is preserved even if the packets are encoded by the access point. The information may include a beacon, a SSID and/or a key.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2012Publication date: December 27, 2012Inventors: Gary D. Zimmerman, Lyman Leonard Hall, Gregory F. Carlson, Jeff James
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Patent number: 8333324Abstract: An image forming apparatus, which may be a printer, includes an image acquisition subsystem and a processing subsystem. The image acquisition subsystem includes an imager and a source. The imager is configured to scan an image while the image acquisition subsystem moves with respect to the image forming apparatus and configured to provide electrical signals including information related to the scanned image. The source is configured to emanate electromagnetic radiation based on the electrical signals. The processing subsystem includes a receiving component configured to receive the electromagnetic radiation emanated from the source of the image acquisition subsystem. The image forming apparatus also includes a structure supporting both the image acquisition subsystem and the processing subsystem.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2010Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Marvell International Technology Ltd.Inventors: Steven M. Goss, Gregory F. Carlson, Ronald G. Paul, Todd A. McClelland, Randall L. Stockberger, Jerry A. Marshall, Jr.
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Patent number: 8322817Abstract: A printer system includes a print head assembly that ejects a printing solution from a fixed position during a print period and a conveying mechanism operable to convey an operations assembly. The operations assembly executes servicing functions on the print head assembly during a non-print period. Furthermore, the print head assembly remains in the fixed position during the non-print period and the operations assembly provides support for a print medium during the print period.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2008Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.Inventors: Gregory F. Carlson, Steven Goss
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Patent number: 8259691Abstract: An apparatus and method are disclosed to communicate, from a first device to a wireless device, information by which the wireless device may identify an access point as a potential network device. The information is encoded in a packet stream by the first device, and wirelessly communicated from the access point to the wireless device. The information may be encoded by varying a packet characteristic, such as packet length, that is preserved even if the packets are encoded by the access point. The information may include a beacon, a SSID and/or a key.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2007Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.Inventors: Gary D. Zimmerman, Lyman Leonard Hall, Gregory F. Carlson, Jeff James
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Patent number: 8226194Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for a handheld printing device that allow the handheld printing device to print images onto a planar or non-planar print surface are described herein. The handheld printing device may include, among other things, a print head, a position module, and a print module. The print head may be designed to deposit one or more printing substances onto a print surface of a print medium. The position module may be designed to generate mapping information of the print surface including three dimensional location of a print spot of the print surface, and to generate positioning information indicating three dimensional location of the handheld printing device relative to the print medium. And finally, the print module may be designed to control the print head, to cause the print head to deposit or not to deposit one or more of the printing substances onto the print spot based, at least in part, by comparing the positioning information to the mapping information.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2007Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.Inventors: James D. Bledsoe, Asher Simmons, James Mealy, Gregory F. Carlson, Todd A. McClelland
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Patent number: 8229503Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for a scanning device for use with a mobile device are described herein. The scanning device may include an image capture module to capture surface images of a medium to be scanned and a positioning module to determine positioning information based at least in part on navigational images and the captured surface images. A mobile device may include one or more features of the scanning device including the image capture module and the positioning module. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2011Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.Inventors: James D. Bledsoe, Asher Simmons, Patrick A. McKinley, Gregory F. Carlson, Todd A. McClelland, James Mealy
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Patent number: 8223384Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for defining an image in a handheld imaging translation device are described herein. The image may be defined as a plurality of color planes having a plurality of bits, the bits of each color plane stored in consecutive memory addresses, and the color planes separated by a consistent offset, such that each bit and its associated bits are equally separated by the consistent offset.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2008Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.Inventors: James D. Bledsoe, Todd A. McClelland, Gregory F. Carlson, Asher Simmons
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Patent number: 8125678Abstract: A handheld printer that provides an appropriate application of ink to a print medium without a bulky and complex mechanical system for positioning a print head with respect to the print medium. A handheld printer according to the present teachings includes a navigation subsystem that tracks a motion of the handheld printer with respect to a printing surface and a print head controller that causes a print head to fire ink drops onto the printing surface in response to the motion and in response to an image contained in an image buffer.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2011Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: Marvell International Technology Ltd.Inventors: Gregory F. Carlson, Patrick A. McKinley, Todd A. McClelland, J. Daren Bledsoe, Asher Simmons
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Patent number: 8123322Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide apparatuses and methods related to a manually operated image translation device. The device may include a carriage, which houses image translation components, that is manually manipulated along a transverse member. An advancement arrangement may advance a medium when the image translation components clear an image translation zone of an adjacent medium. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2008Date of Patent: February 28, 2012Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.Inventors: Ronald G. Paul, Gregory F. Carlson
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Patent number: 8100497Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for a handheld image translation device are described herein. The handheld image translation device may include an image capture module to capture surface images of a medium and a positioning module to determine positioning information based at least in part on navigational measurements and/or the captured surface images. A print module of the handheld image translation device may cause print forming substances to be deposited based at least in part on the positioning information. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2010Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.Inventors: James Mealy, James D. Bledsoe, Todd A. McClelland, Gregory F. Carlson, Gopi Paramesh, Asher Simmons
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Patent number: 8085440Abstract: Methods and systems are provided to facilitate a printer to execute one or more operations in connection with one or more images are described herein. The methods may include methods that may, at least in part, be implemented at a printer including tracking one or more locations of a scan device with respect to a sheet having a first one or more pictures associated with one or more corresponding images, wherein the tracking is based, at least in part, on electronic data provided by the scan device. The printer may then based at least in part on the tracking, execute at least one operation in connection with all or a selected subset of the one or more corresponding images.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2008Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Assignee: Marvell International Ltd.Inventors: Patrick A. McKinley, Jeffrey S. James, Gregory F. Carlson, Steven Goss, James D. Bledsoe