Patents by Inventor Kenneth Peyton Fouts

Kenneth Peyton Fouts 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).

  • Patent number: 9542778
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and apparatus related to the creation and maintenance of an interactive and explorable representative reality. The interactive representative reality may be compiled from a plurality of geotagged media from a plurality of individual sources. Similarly geotagged images of the geotagged media may be stitched together to form portions of the representative reality. Portions of the representative reality may be layerable spatially and/or temporally. The apparatus and methods disclosed herein provide for recognition of objects within the geotagged images and link the images to one or more related items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Inventor: Kenneth Peyton Fouts
  • Patent number: 8803912
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and apparatus related to the creation and maintenance of an interactive and explorable representative reality. The interactive representative reality may be compiled from a plurality of geotagged media from a plurality of individual sources. Similarly geotagged images of the geotagged media may be stitched together to form portions of the representative reality. Portions of the representative reality may be layerable spatially and/or temporally. The apparatus and methods disclosed herein provide for recognition of objects within the geotagged images and link the images to one or more related items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Inventor: Kenneth Peyton Fouts
  • Patent number: 8479094
    Abstract: A machine and computer-implemented process that assists a user in authoring any written work in that it automatically searches multiple sources simultaneously on the world wide web or other designated database in order to provide automatic citation and/or information suggestions to an author's written work. The invention parses and sorts both user entered information and returned search results to create databases which assist in suggesting the most relevant information and citation suggestions to the user. The machine and computer-implemented process also provide automatic formatting, in a user pre-selected style, of both the written work and the citations which are automatically generated and suggested to the author based upon user defined presets and relevancy criteria. The invention described assists a user in finding information and the next step in a variety of processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Inventor: Kenneth Peyton Fouts
  • Publication number: 20110060761
    Abstract: A machine and computer-implemented process that assists a user in authoring any written work in that it automatically searches multiple sources simultaneously on the world wide web or other designated database in order to provide automatic citation and/or information suggestions to an author's written work. The invention parses and sorts both user entered information and returned search results to create databases which assist in suggesting the most relevant information and citation suggestions to the user. The machine and computer-implemented process also provide automatic formatting, in a user pre-selected style, of both the written work and the citations which are automatically generated and suggested to the author based upon user defined presets and relevancy criteria. The invention described assists a user in finding information and the next step in a variety of processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Inventor: Kenneth Peyton Fouts