Patents by Inventor James Amendolagine
James Amendolagine 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: 10142562Abstract: The present invention includes a method and device that allows efficient mixing of multiple video images with a graphics screen while utilizing only one video buffer. The present invention partitions the sole video buffer, pre-scales the plurality of video images and inserts them into the partitioned video buffer in a predetermined range of buffer addresses. The present invention mixes the partitioned video including the pre-scaled video images with the graphics screen to produce a video display including both a video screen and a graphics screen.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2014Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Ted Dunn, James Amendolagine
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Patent number: 9489116Abstract: The present invention is directed toward a method and apparatus in which one or more user specific windows may be launched within a single computing session executed and displayed on the display of an interactive table. More specifically, the present invention is directed toward detecting the position of one or more users around an interactive table and generating one or more user-specific windows proximate to one or more user/s on the display of the interactive table within a single session.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2015Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: James Amendolagine, Nobukazu Sugiyama, Djung Nguyen
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Patent number: 9396001Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for providing a window management system for an embedded system. In one embodiment a method includes configuring an operating system of an embedded system based on a protocol provided between one or more application windows and a window manager, each application window associated with an application executed by the operating system, storing display content of the one or more application windows in a buffer, and compositing the one or more application windows in the buffer. The method may further include outputting data of the buffer for display of the one or more application windows based on the compositing, wherein an application programming interface is specified for the application to directly access graphics hardware of the embedded system.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2011Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: James Amendolagine
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Publication number: 20150355831Abstract: The present invention is directed toward a method and apparatus in which one or more user specific windows may be launched within a single computing session executed and displayed on the display of an interactive table. More specifically, the present invention is directed toward detecting the position of one or more users around an interactive table and generating one or more user-specific windows proximate to one or more user/s on the display of the interactive table within a single session.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2015Publication date: December 10, 2015Inventors: James Amendolagine, Nobukazu Sugiyama, Djung Nguyen
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Patent number: 9164648Abstract: The present invention is directed toward a method and apparatus in which one or more user specific windows may be launched within a single computing session executed and displayed on the display of an interactive table. More specifically, the present invention is directed toward detecting the position of one or more users around an interactive table and generating one or more user-specific windows proximate to one or more user/s on the display of the interactive table within a single session.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2011Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: James Amendolagine, Nobukazu Sugiyama, Djung Nguyen
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Patent number: 9066059Abstract: A method and apparatus for maintaining smooth video transition between distinct applications includes a processor, a secondary memory and a system memory. In providing a smooth transition between applications, the apparatus and method provides synchronization of the video and graphics components while transitioning from a first application to a second application. If there is no video component in either application, no action is needed to provide a smooth transition between applications, and when only the first application includes a video component, the video component need only be turned off for smooth transition between the applications to occur. When both the first application and the second application include video components, smooth transition between the applications is dependent upon the display window size of the first application in comparison to the second application. A process is triggered according to the size of the display windows of the first and second applications.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2014Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: James Amendolagine, Ted Dunn
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Patent number: 8866974Abstract: The present invention includes a method and device that allows efficient mixing of multiple video images with a graphics screen while utilizing only one video buffer. The present invention partitions the sole video buffer, pre-scales the plurality of video images and inserts them into the partitioned video buffer in a predetermined range of buffer addresses. The present invention mixes the partitioned video including the pre-scaled video images with the graphics screen to produce a video display including both a video screen and a graphics screen.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2013Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.Inventors: Ted Dunn, James Amendolagine
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Publication number: 20140192265Abstract: A method and apparatus for maintaining smooth video transition between distinct applications includes a processor, a secondary memory and a system memory. In providing a smooth transition between applications, the apparatus and method provides synchronization of the video and graphics components while transitioning from a first application to a second application. If there is no video component in either application, no action is needed to provide a smooth transition between applications, and when only the first application includes a video component, the video component need only be turned off for smooth transition between the applications to occur. When both the first application and the second application include video components, smooth transition between the applications is dependent upon the display window size of the first application in comparison to the second application. A process is triggered according to the size of the display windows of the first and second applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2014Publication date: July 10, 2014Applicant: SONY ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: James Amendolagine, Ted Dunn
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Patent number: 8769110Abstract: A method of and system for transferring a remote user interface from one device to another device is described herein. A server stores state information and uses the information to transfer the RUI and/or other data from one device to the other device. This enables a user to transition from one device to another device seamlessly and without interruption of their user interface and/or programming.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2011Date of Patent: July 1, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: James Amendolagine, Jason Clement
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Publication number: 20140152896Abstract: The present invention includes a method and device that allows efficient mixing of multiple video images with a graphics screen while utilizing only one video buffer. The present invention partitions the sole video buffer, pre-scales the plurality of video images and inserts them into the partitioned video buffer in a predetermined range of buffer addresses. The present invention mixes the partitioned video including the pre-scaled video images with the graphics screen to produce a video display including both a video screen and a graphics screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2014Publication date: June 5, 2014Applicants: SONY ELECTRONICS INC., SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Ted Dunn, James Amendolagine
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Patent number: 8704950Abstract: A method and apparatus for maintaining smooth video transition between distinct applications includes a processor, a secondary memory and a system memory. In providing a smooth transition between applications, the apparatus and method provides synchronization of the video and graphics components while transitioning from a first application to a second application. If there is no video component in either application, no action is needed to provide a smooth transition between applications, and when only the first application includes a video component, the video component need only be turned off for smooth transition between the applications to occur. When both the first application and the second application include video components, smooth transition between the applications is dependent upon the display window size of the first application in comparison to the second application. A process is triggered according to the size of the display windows of the first and second applications.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2012Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.Inventors: James Amendolagine, Ted Dunn
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Publication number: 20140043537Abstract: The present invention includes a method and device that allows efficient mixing of multiple video images with a graphics screen while utilizing only one video buffer. The present invention partitions the sole video buffer, pre-scales the plurality of video images and inserts them into the partitioned video buffer in a predetermined range of buffer addresses. The present invention mixes the partitioned video including the pre-scaled video images with the graphics screen to produce a video display including both a video screen and a graphics screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2013Publication date: February 13, 2014Inventors: Ted Dunn, James Amendolagine
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Patent number: 8631327Abstract: A method consistent with the present invention involves displaying a window on a computer monitor; at one or more programmed processors, determining a position of the window on the computer monitor; at the one or more programmed processors, deducing a user position for a user of the window with the window based on the position of the window on the computer monitor; and steering audio signals from an application running in the window to a loudspeaker in an array of loudspeakers, where the loudspeaker is a loudspeaker in the array of loudspeakers closer to the deduced user position than another loudspeaker in the array. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2012Date of Patent: January 14, 2014Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Nobukazu Sugiyama, James Amendolagine, Djung Nguyen
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Publication number: 20140009679Abstract: A live video is directed to a display buffer of the device. The device is preferably a set top box and a live video frame stored in the display buffer is preferably displayed by a display device coupled to the set top box. The display device is preferably a television. A capture command preferably signals the set top box to store one or more frames of the currently displayed live video. Upon receiving the capture command, the live video is paused, thereby preventing the display buffer from loading subsequent live video frames. The live video is then re-directed to a capture buffer, the live video is un-paused, and a current live video frame is captured from the capture buffer. The captured frame is then stored using a conventional storage medium. After the frame is captured, the live video is re-directed from the capture buffer to the display buffer to resume display of the live video.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2013Publication date: January 9, 2014Applicants: SONY ELECTRONICS INC., SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Ted Dunn, James Amendolagine
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Patent number: 8587727Abstract: The present invention includes a method and device that allows efficient mixing of multiple video images with a graphics screen while utilizing only one video buffer. The present invention partitions the sole video buffer, pre-scales the plurality of video images and inserts them into the partitioned video buffer in a predetermined range of buffer addresses. The present invention mixes the partitioned video including the pre-scaled video images with the graphics screen to produce a video display including both a video screen and a graphics screen.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2011Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.Inventors: Ted Dunn, James Amendolagine
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Patent number: 8561123Abstract: A live video is directed to a display buffer of the device. The device is preferably a set top box and a live video frame stored in the display buffer is preferably displayed by a display device coupled to the set top box. The display device is preferably a television. A capture command preferably signals the set top box to store one or more frames of the currently displayed live video. Upon receiving the capture command, the live video is paused, thereby preventing the display buffer from loading subsequent live video frames. The live video is then re-directed to a capture buffer, the live video is un-paused, and a current live video frame is captured from the capture buffer. The captured frame is then stored using a conventional storage medium. After the frame is captured, the live video is re-directed from the capture buffer to the display buffer to resume display of the live video.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2011Date of Patent: October 15, 2013Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.Inventors: Ted Dunn, James Amendolagine
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Patent number: 8542193Abstract: An input system for a TV remote control or other system has a single touch surface with a deformable haptic assembly below the touch surface such that a user placing a finger on the touch surface can feel deformation of the haptic, assembly. A pressure sensing assembly is below the haptic assembly and sensing motion of a finger on the touch surface, with a processor receiving input from the pressure sensing assembly and providing output to the haptic assembly in response. Also, a display receives input sent by the processor in response to input from the pressure sensing assembly to cause the display to present a changing image of a keypad as a user moves a finger on the touch surface.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2011Date of Patent: September 24, 2013Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.Inventors: Robert Hardacker, James Amendolagine
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Publication number: 20130191753Abstract: A method consistent with the present invention involves displaying a window on a computer monitor; at one or more programmed processors, determining a position of the window on the computer monitor; at the one or more programmed processors, deducing a user position for a user of the window with the window based on the position of the window on the computer monitor; and steering audio signals from an application running in the window to a loudspeaker in an array of loudspeakers, where the loudspeaker is a loudspeaker in the array of loudspeakers closer to the deduced user position than another loudspeaker in the array. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2012Publication date: July 25, 2013Inventors: Nobukazu Sugiyama, James Amendolagine, Djung Nguyen
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Publication number: 20130073980Abstract: The present invention is directed toward a method and apparatus in which one or more user specific windows may be launched within a single computing session executed and displayed on the display of an interactive table. More specifically, the present invention is directed toward detecting the position of one or more users around an interactive table and generating one or more user-specific windows proximate to one or more user/s on the display of the interactive table within a single session.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2011Publication date: March 21, 2013Inventors: James Amendolagine, Nobukazu Sugiyama, Djung Nguyen
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Publication number: 20120299811Abstract: A method of and system for transferring a remote user interface from one device to another device is described herein. A server stores state information and uses the information to transfer the RUI and/or other data from one device to the other device. This enables a user to transition from one device to another device seamlessly and without interruption of their user interface and/or programming.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2011Publication date: November 29, 2012Applicant: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: James Amendolagine, Jason Clement