Patents by Inventor Laura Barnes

Laura Barnes 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: 10713476
    Abstract: The present invention provides for high throughput passenger identification in portal security. A method for high throughput passenger identification includes receiving in memory of a host computing system from an image acquisition device a contemporaneously acquired image of a group of individuals approaching a portal passageway and identifying a set of faces of the group. The method yet further includes querying a database of faces with each identified face in the set and for each face assigning a confidence value of having matched the face to a record of a known person in the database. Finally, the method includes visually decorating each face in the contemporaneously acquired image with an initial visual characteristic on condition that a correspondingly assigned confidence value falls short of a threshold, but otherwise with a different visual characteristic, and displaying the contemporaneously acquired image in a display of the host computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.
    Inventors: Richard Fain, Jay Schneider, Joey Hasty, David Smith, Joshua T. Nakaya, Laura Barnes
  • Patent number: 10645536
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system and computer program product for object location and tracking. A method for object location and tracking within a bounded space includes establishing a wireless communications link between a wireless network adapter disposed within a smartphone and a wireless access point positioned remotely from the smartphone, and receiving thereafter, an identity of the wireless access point. Thereafter, a short-range wireless signal is received in the smartphone by a short-range wireless receiver disposed within the smartphone separately from the wireless network adapter, and an identifier of an object is extracted therefrom. Finally, a message is generated that combines the identity of the wireless access point and the identifier of the object and the message is transmitted through the wireless communications link to a host server coupled both to the wireless access point and also several other wireless access points over a computer communications network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES LTD.
    Inventors: Laura Barnes, Joey Hasty
  • Publication number: 20190377937
    Abstract: The present invention provides for high throughput passenger identification in portal security. A method for high throughput passenger identification includes receiving in memory of a host computing system from an image acquisition device a contemporaneously acquired image of a group of individuals approaching a portal passageway and identifying a set of faces of the group. The method yet further includes querying a database of faces with each identified face in the set and for each face assigning a confidence value of having matched the face to a record of a known person in the database. Finally, the method includes visually decorating each face in the contemporaneously acquired image with an initial visual characteristic on condition that a correspondingly assigned confidence value falls short of a threshold, but otherwise with a different visual characteristic, and displaying the contemporaneously acquired image in a display of the host computing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: Richard Fain, Jay Schneider, Joey Hasty, David Smith, Joshua T. Nakaya, Laura Barnes
  • Patent number: 5026115
    Abstract: A child car seat cover for covering a generally triangular front retaining plate of a child car seat having a generally rectangular locking member extending from a lower apex portion and a pair of shoulder straps extending from a top edge portion between spaced radiused corners includes a generally triangular cover formed from a washable padded fabric material. The cover has spaced front and back surfaces connected by side walls which converge from upper arcuate corners of the front surface to a rectangular lower flared apex portion. The cover has a plurality of flaps including cooperating hook and loop type fastening strips for securement to the retaining plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1991
    Inventor: Laura A. Barnes