Patents by Inventor Michael C. Reynolds
Michael C. Reynolds 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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Publication number: 20150147936Abstract: A mechanized, movable toy with the ability to interact with and explore its environment, while performing actions and creating noises at specific intervals. The toy has at least two receivers and a control unit capable of detecting wireless signals from a source and capable of reacting to move towards the source of the wireless signals. Once the toy enters within an area of the source, the toy performs a new action. The source may be a stationary device, handheld device, movable device, or another mobile toy. The toy may contain switches thereupon to switch the toy on or off. The receivers may be arranged in and around the toy to detect the wireless signals from one side of the toy or another.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2014Publication date: May 28, 2015Applicant: CEPIA LLCInventors: James Russell Hornsby, Joseph L. McGowan, Michael C. Reynolds
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Patent number: 9013630Abstract: A method for encoding a carrier signal in a video signal, the video signal having one or more frames, the frames each having a first field and a second field, the first field and the second field of each frame having a plurality of scan lines, each having a plurality of pixels with an intensity value indicating brightness, the method comprising selectively designating the plurality of scan lines of the first field of the one or more frames as up lines or down lines, calculating an optimum amount of adjustment to the pixels of the up lines and the down lines, and selectively increasing the intensity value of pixels of the up lines and decreasing the intensity value of pixels of the down lines by the optimum amount of adjustment thereby modulating the video signal with a carrier signal and creating a modulated video signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2014Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Koplar Interactive Systems International, LLCInventors: Christopher E. Chupp, Michael S. Gramelspacher, Jesse J. Chounard, II, James G. Wither, Yousri H. Barsoum, Michael C. Reynolds
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Publication number: 20140328408Abstract: A method for encoding a carrier signal in a video signal, the video signal having one or more frames, the frames each having a first field and a second field, the first field and the second field of each frame having a plurality of scan lines, each having a plurality of pixels with an intensity value indicating brightness, the method comprising selectively designating the plurality of scan lines of the first field of the one or more frames as up lines or down lines, calculating an optimum amount of adjustment to the pixels of the up lines and the down lines, and selectively increasing the intensity value of pixels of the up lines and decreasing the intensity value of pixels of the down lines by the optimum amount of adjustment thereby modulating the video signal with a carrier signal and creating a modulated video signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2014Publication date: November 6, 2014Inventors: Christopher E. Chupp, Michael S. Gramelspacher, Jesse J. Chounard, II, James G. Withers, Yousri H. Barsoum, Michael C. Reynolds
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Patent number: 8823875Abstract: A method for encoding a carrier signal in a video signal, the video signal having one or more frames, the frames each having a first field and a second field, the first field and the second field of each frame having a plurality of scan lines, each having a plurality of pixels with an intensity value indicating brightness, the method comprising selectively designating the plurality of scan lines of the first field of the one or more frames as up lines or down lines, calculating an optimum amount of adjustment to the pixels of the up lines and the down lines, and selectively increasing the intensity value of pixels of the up lines and decreasing the intensity value of pixels of the down lines by the optimum amount of adjustment thereby modulating the video signal with a carrier signal and creating a modulated video signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2014Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Koplar Interactive Systems International L.L.C.Inventors: Christopher E. Chupp, Michael S. Gramelspacher, Jesse J. Chounard, II, James G. Withers, Yousri H. Barsoum, Michael C. Reynolds
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Publication number: 20140176793Abstract: A method for encoding a carrier signal in a video signal, the video signal having one or more frames, the frames each having a first field and a second field, the first field and the second field of each frame having a plurality of scan lines, each having a plurality of pixels with an intensity value indicating brightness, the method comprising selectively designating the plurality of scan lines of the first field of the one or more frames as up lines or down lines, calculating an optimum amount of adjustment to the pixels of the up lines and the down lines, and selectively increasing the intensity value of pixels of the up lines and decreasing the intensity value of pixels of the down lines by the optimum amount of adjustment thereby modulating the video signal with a carrier signal and creating a modulated video signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2014Publication date: June 26, 2014Applicant: Koplar Interactive Systems International, LLCInventors: CHRISTOPHER E. CHUPP, Michael S. Gramelspacher, Jesse J. Chounard, II, James G. Withers, Yousri H. Barsoum, Michael C. Reynolds
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Patent number: 8704946Abstract: A method for encoding a carrier signal in a video signal, the video signal having one or more frames, the frames each having a first field and a second field, the first field and the second field of each frame having a plurality of scan lines, each having a plurality of pixels with an intensity value indicating brightness, the method comprising selectively designating the plurality of scan lines of the first field of the one or more frames as up lines or down lines, calculating an optimum amount of adjustment to the pixels of the up lines and the down lines, and selectively increasing the intensity value of pixels of the up lines and decreasing the intensity value of pixels of the down lines by the optimum amount of adjustment thereby modulating the video signal with a carrier signal and creating a modulated video signal.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2013Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Koplar Interactive Systems International L.L.C.Inventors: Christopher E. Chupp, Michael S. Gramelspacher, Jesse J. Chounard, II, James G. Withers, Yousri H. Barsoum, Michael C. Reynolds
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Publication number: 20130271652Abstract: A method for encoding a carrier signal in a video signal, the video signal having one or more frames, the frames each having a first field and a second field, the first field and the second field of each frame having a plurality of scan lines, each having a plurality of pixels with an intensity value indicating brightness, the method comprising selectively designating the plurality of scan lines of the first field of the one or more frames as up lines or down lines, calculating an optimum amount of adjustment to the pixels of the up lines and the down lines, and selectively increasing the intensity value of pixels of the up lines and decreasing the intensity value of pixels of the down lines by the optimum amount of adjustment thereby modulating the video signal with a carrier signal and creating a modulated video signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2013Publication date: October 17, 2013Inventors: Christopher E. Chupp, Michael S. Gramelspacher, Jesse J. Chounard, II, James G. Withers, Yousri H. Barsoum, Michael C. Reynolds
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Patent number: 8439757Abstract: An entertainment device is configured to receive a limited range wireless signal from at least one other entertainment device when adjacently arranged in close physical proximity to at least one other entertainment device, and to responsively operate in a first mode or a second mode based on whether the other entertainment device is adjacent a first side or second side. In the first mode, the entertainment device initiates one or more wireless activation signals to control an audio/visual element of another entertainment device. In the second mode, the entertainment device receives wireless activation signals from another entertainment device to control activation of an audio/visual element of the receiving entertainment device. Each device is interchangeable between operation in the first mode of controlling at least one other entertainment device and the second mode of being controlled by another entertainment device based on position of one entertainment device relative to the other.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2011Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Assignee: Cepia, LLCInventors: James Russell Hornsby, Joseph L. McGowan, Michael C. Reynolds, Steven Fink, Robert W. Jeffway, Jr., Steven R. Casino
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Patent number: 8405772Abstract: A method, apparatus and system for signal modulation. A plurality of pixels are selected in a pattern such that a first pixel group of the plurality of pixels is unpaired with a second pixel group of the plurality of pixels throughout the pattern in a portion of a video signal. The intensity of the plurality of the pixels is altered at a constant magnitude in the portion of the video signal pursuant to the pattern in a substantially invisible way.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2010Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Assignee: Koplar Interactive Systems International L.L.C.Inventors: Christopher E. Chupp, Michael S. Gramelspacher, Jesse J. Chounard, II, James G. Withers, Yousri H. Barsoum, Michael C. Reynolds
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Patent number: 8233088Abstract: A method for modulating a video signal. Frames of a plurality of frames are selected for modulation. A first magnitude alternation pattern is designated for each of a first area of a field of the selected frames. A second magnitude alternation pattern is designated for each of a second area of the field of the selected frames. The intensity of a plurality of pixels of a plurality of scan lines of the field of the selected frames is altered as designated by either the first magnitude alternation pattern or the second magnitude alternation pattern.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2009Date of Patent: July 31, 2012Assignee: Koplar Interactive Systems International, L.L.C.Inventors: Michael C. Reynolds, James G. Withers, Yousri H. Barsoum, Jesse J. Chounard, II, Edward J. Koplar
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Publication number: 20120077597Abstract: An entertainment device is configured to receive a limited range wireless signal from at least one other entertainment device when adjacently arranged in close physical proximity to at least one other entertainment device, and to responsively operate in a first mode or a second mode based on whether the other entertainment device is adjacent a first side or second side. In the first mode, the entertainment device initiates one or more wireless activation signals to control an audio/visual element of another entertainment device. In the second mode, the entertainment device receives wireless activation signals from another entertainment device to control activation of an audio/visual element of the receiving entertainment device. Each device is interchangeable between operation in the first mode of controlling at least one other entertainment device and the second mode of being controlled by another entertainment device based on position of one entertainment device relative to the other.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2011Publication date: March 29, 2012Inventors: James Russell Hornsby, Joseph L. McGowan, Michael C. Reynolds, Steven Fink, Robert W. Jeffway, JR., Steven R. Casino
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Patent number: 8018531Abstract: A system for transmitting a modulated video signal to be presented on a digital display device, the video signal having a first frame and a second frame, the first frame and the second frame each comprised of a plurality of pixels, the system comprising a signal source for generating a video signal, an encoder, the encoder comprising a means for receiving the video signal from the signal source, a means for selectively altering luminance of the pixels of the first frame and the second frame of the video signal to represent a signal presence or signal absence and thereby creating a modulated video signal, and a means for providing the modulated video signal to a broadcast source, and the broadcast source for providing the modulated video signal from the encoder to a digital display device.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2009Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: Koplar Interactive Systems International, LLCInventors: James G. Withers, Yousri H. Barsoum, Edward J. Koplar, Michael C. Reynolds
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Patent number: 7826674Abstract: A method for modulating a content signal (18) to contain an auxiliary signal, the content signal (18) having content segments, the method comprising logging detections of a test content signal (20) to create one or more log files (44); parsing the one or more log files (44) to create a profile file (46); scheduling the profile file (46) to create an encode file (48); and encoding the content signal (18) with the auxiliary signal according to the encode file (48) and a modulation method.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2005Date of Patent: November 2, 2010Assignee: Koplar Interactive Systems International, L.L.C.Inventors: Michael C. Reynolds, Jesse J. Chounard, II, Christopher E. Chupp
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Publication number: 20100141836Abstract: A method, apparatus and system for signal modulation. A plurality of pixels are selected in a pattern such that a first pixel group of the plurality of pixels is unpaired with a second pixel group of the plurality of pixels throughout the pattern in a portion of a video signal. The intensity of the plurality of the pixels is altered at a constant magnitude in the portion of the video signal pursuant to the pattern in a substantially invisible way.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2010Publication date: June 10, 2010Applicant: KOPLAR INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL, LLCInventors: Christopher E. Chupp, Michael S. Gramelspacher, Jesse J. Chounard, II, James G. Withers, Yousri H. Barsoum, Michael C. Reynolds
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Patent number: 7692723Abstract: A method, apparatus and system for signal modulation. A plurality of pixels are selected in a pattern such that a first pixel group of the plurality of pixels is unpaired with a second pixel group of the plurality of pixels throughout the pattern in a portion of a video signal. The intensity of the plurality of the pixels is altered at a constant magnitude in the portion of the video signal pursuant to the pattern in a substantially invisible way.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2007Date of Patent: April 6, 2010Assignee: Koplar Interactive Systems International L.L.C.Inventors: Christopher E. Chupp, Michael S. Gramelspacher, Jesse J. Chounard, II, James G. Withers, Yousri H. Barsoum, Michael C. Reynolds
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Publication number: 20100034292Abstract: A method for modulating a video signal. Frames of a plurality of frames are selected for modulation. A first magnitude alternation pattern is designated for each of a first area of a field of the selected frames. A second magnitude alternation pattern is designated for each of a second area of the field of the selected frames. The intensity of a plurality of pixels of a plurality of scan lines of the field of the selected frames is altered as designated by either the first magnitude alternation pattern or the second magnitude alternation pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2009Publication date: February 11, 2010Inventors: Michael C. Reynolds, James G. Withers, Yousri H. Barsoum, Jesse J. Chounard, II, Edward J. Koplar
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Publication number: 20100014593Abstract: A system for transmitting a modulated video signal to be presented on a digital display device, the video signal having a first frame and a second frame, the first frame and the second frame each comprised of a plurality of pixels, the system comprising a signal source for generating a video signal, an encoder, the encoder comprising a means for receiving the video signal from the signal source, a means for selectively altering luminance of the pixels of the first frame and the second frame of the video signal to represent a signal presence or signal absence and thereby creating a modulated video signal, and a means for providing the modulated video signal to a broadcast source, and the broadcast source for providing the modulated video signal from the encoder to a digital display device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2009Publication date: January 21, 2010Inventors: James G. Withers, Yousri H. Barsoum, Edward J. Koplar, Michael C. Reynolds
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Patent number: D666682Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2012Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Cepia, LLCInventors: James Russell Hornsby, Joseph L. McGowan, Michael C. Reynolds, Dana L. Stewart
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Patent number: D667062Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2011Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: Cepia, LLCInventors: James Russell Hornsby, Joseph L. McGowan, Michael C. Reynolds
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Patent number: D669544Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2011Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Cepia, LLCInventors: James Russell Hornsby, Joseph L. McGowan, Michael C. Reynolds