Patents by Inventor Peter Courtney
Peter Courtney 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: 9710726Abstract: Disclosed is a computer implemented method for identifying a component tile within a target image. The method receives a plurality of distinct component tiles and overlays the plurality of component tiles to form an overlaid image. The overlaying is based on an embedded parameter value for each component tile. The method compares the target image with the overlayed image to determine a matching parameter value, and identifies a component tile within the target image by determining that the embedded parameter value of the component tile is the closest of the embedded parameter values to the matching parameter value.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2013Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Allen Peter Courtney, Peter Alleine Fletcher
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Patent number: 9569846Abstract: A method for selecting a representative image of an eye from a plurality of captured images, comprises associating neighboring images from the plurality of images with each other to determine a spatial relationship (shift) of the images and an initial quality value for each image. The method determines an accumulated quality value for at least one portion of each image using the initial quality values corresponding to those other images of the plurality of images that are spatially related with the portion. The spatial relationship between a portion of an image and the other images is identified based of the determined spatial arrangement of the images. The method selects a representative image from the plurality of images using, for each image, at least the initial quality value for the image and the accumulated quality value of at least one portion of the image.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2014Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Peter Alleine Fletcher, Allen Peter Courtney, Dmitri Katchalov
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Patent number: 9552641Abstract: Disclosed is method of measuring the displacement between a reference region of a reference image and a sample region of a sample image. The method spatially varies the reference region using a one-dimensional filter having complex kernel values, wherein a length (radius) and direction (angle or tangent segment) of the filter is a function of position in the reference region. The method then measures a displacement between the reference region and the sample region by comparing the spatially varied reference region and the sample region.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2012Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Peter Alleine Fletcher, Eric Wai-Shing Chong, Matthew Raphael Arnison, Yoichi Kazama, Allen Peter Courtney
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Patent number: 9304975Abstract: A method is disclosed for laying out a plurality of containers on a page to generate a document upon insertion of content in the containers. The containers each have edges whose position upon layout is independent of the dimensions of the content inserted in each container. An association is created between an edge of a first container and an edge of a second container that is parallel and opposed to the first edge which constrains the second edge to a relation to the first edge. The page may then be laid out using the containers such that the edge of the first container moves dependent on the dimensions of content inserted in the first and second containers.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2008Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ian Robert Boreham, Allen Peter Courtney, David Grant McLeish
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Publication number: 20150294190Abstract: Disclosed is a computer implemented method for identifying a component tile within a target image. The method receives a plurality of distinct component tiles and overlays the plurality of component tiles to form an overlaid image. The overlaying is based on an embedded parameter value for each component tile. The method compares the target image with the overlayed image to determine a matching parameter value, and identifies a component tile within the target image by determining that the embedded parameter value of the component tile is the closest of the embedded parameter values to the matching parameter value.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2013Publication date: October 15, 2015Inventors: ALLEN PETER COURTNEY, PETER ALLEINE FLETCHER
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Publication number: 20150170360Abstract: A method for selecting a representative image of an eye from a plurality of captured images, comprises associating neighbouring images from the plurality of images with each other to determine a spatial relationship (shift) of the images and an initial quality value for each image. The method determines an accumulated quality value for at least one portion of each image using the initial quality values corresponding to those other images of the plurality of images that are spatially related with the portion. The spatial relationship between a portion of an image and the other images is identified based of the determined spatial arrangement of the images. The method selects a representative image from the plurality of images using, for each image, at least the initial quality value for the image and the accumulated quality value of at least one portion of the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2014Publication date: June 18, 2015Inventors: PETER ALLEINE FLETCHER, ALLEN PETER COURTNEY, DMITRI KATCHALOV
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Patent number: 8860756Abstract: Disclosed is a method of producing a cropped image from an original image for a given target crop region. The method comprising receives a plurality of example crops, each example crop corresponding to at least a part of the original image. Two example crops are selected based on at least a property of the target crop region. The method interpolates between the selected example crops to determine a crop window, crops the original image with the determined crop window to produce the cropped image.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2009Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ian Robert Boreham, Allen Peter Courtney
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Patent number: 8612849Abstract: Disclosed are methods for laying out objects on a page which may be operative at a pre-layout calculation stage (107) or a post-layout calculation stage (109). The methods involve objects such as panels (202) into which multiple containers (203) may be configured to negotiate for space within the panel (202) upon insertion of content (204) into the panels. Typically some of the content (204) is variable for each instance of document production according to the layout. The laying out involves the application of multiple arrangement rules (FIGS. 5A-5D) and arbitration between preferred and actual dimensions (eg. height and width) of the objects including panels and containers.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2008Date of Patent: December 17, 2013Assignee: Canon Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Ian Robert Boreham, Allen Peter Courtney, David Grant McLeish
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Publication number: 20110086911Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of non-specific anti inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). In particular, the invention relates to bismuth(III) tris-carboxylate complexes having the formula [Bi(III)L3]n including its pharmaceutically acceptable salts and solvates, wherein, L is chosen from the group comprising carboxylato-NSAIDs, their derivatives, prodrugs or metabolytes, and n is ?1. The bismuth(III) tris-carboxylate complexes of the invention may be formulated for use in treatments for a wide range of ailments, particularly those where an anti-microbial activity is advantageous. In a particularly preferred embodiment the bismuth(III) tris-carboxylate complexes of the present invention exhibit activity against bacteria found in the gastrointestinal tract such as Helicobacter pylori, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Bacillus pumilus, Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2009Publication date: April 14, 2011Applicant: Monash UniversityInventors: Philip Craig ANDREWS, Peter Courtney JUNK, Ish KUMAR, Richard L. FERRERO
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Publication number: 20100156931Abstract: Disclosed is a method of producing a cropped image from an original image for a given target crop region. The method comprising receives a plurality of example crops, each example crop corresponding to at least a part of the original image. Two example crops are selected based on at least a property of the target crop region. The method interpolates between the selected example crops to determine a crop window, crops the original image with the determined crop window to produce the cropped image.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2009Publication date: June 24, 2010Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ian Robert Boreham, Allen Peter Courtney
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Publication number: 20080256440Abstract: A method is disclosed for laying out a plurality of containers on a page to generate a document upon insertion of content in the containers. The containers each have edges whose position upon layout is independent of the dimensions of the content inserted in each container. An association is created between an edge of a first container and an edge of a second container that is parallel and opposed to the first edge which constrains the second edge to a relation to the first edge. The page may then be laid out using the containers such that the edge of the first container moves dependent on the dimensions of content inserted in the first and second containers.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2008Publication date: October 16, 2008Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ian Robert Boreham, Allen Peter Courtney, David Grant McLeish
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Publication number: 20080256439Abstract: Disclosed are methods for laying out objects on a page which may be operative at a pre-layout calculation stage (107) or a post-layout calculation stage (109). The methods involve objects such as panels (202) into which multiple containers (203) may be configured to negotiate for space within the panel (202) upon insertion of content (204) into the panels. Typically some of the content (204) is variable for each instance of document production according to the layout. The laying out involves the application of multiple arrangement rules (FIGS. 5A-5D) and arbitration between preferred and actual dimensions (eg. height and width) of the objects including panels and containers.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2008Publication date: October 16, 2008Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ian Robert Boreham, Allen Peter Courtney, David Grant McLeish
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Patent number: 7308090Abstract: A conference call is established in response to receiving a request 4 from a first communication terminal 3a. The request 4 preferably is an SMS or MMS and comprises one or more identifiers 5, 6, 7, e.g. telephone numbers, relating to a plurality of other communication terminals 3b-3d. A conference call server I allocates a conference call channel and an associated identifier, such as a telephone number. Messages 10a-10c alerting the conference participants are then sent to the other communication terminals 3a-3c, each message including the identifier associated with the conference call channel. Access to the conference call may be restricted to authorised users by compating identifiers, such as CLIs, of incoming callers to the identifiers provided in the request 4 and allowing access only if there is a correspondence or match.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2004Date of Patent: December 11, 2007Inventors: Christopher White, Peter Courtney
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Publication number: 20060250987Abstract: A conference call is established in response to receiving a request 4 from a first communication terminal 3a. The request 4 preferably is an SMS or MMS and comprises one or more identifiers 5, 6, 7, e.g. telephone numbers, relating to a plurality of other communication terminals 3b-3d. A conference call server I allocates a conference call channel and an associated identifier, such as a telephone number. Messages 10a-10c alerting the conference participants are then sent to the other communication terminals 3a-3c, each message including the identifier associated with the conference call channel. Access to the conference call may be restricted to authorised users by compating identifiers, such as CLIs, of incoming callers to the identifiers provided in the request 4 and allowing access only if there is a correspondence or match.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2004Publication date: November 9, 2006Inventors: Christopher White, Peter Courtney
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Publication number: 20060198520Abstract: In a headset audio speech signals are picked up by the microphone, where they are digitally sampled before being encoded by a vocoder. The coded speech data is then provided to a CRC module, where error correction data is added before the resulting data is encrypted by an encryption module. The resulting encrypted data is transmitted using a Bluetooth radio interface, by which the headset is connected wirelessly to a mobile telephone. Received data is decrypted by a decryption module, error corrected by an error correction module and decoded by a decoder, with the resulting audio signals then being reproduced at a speaker. When a user wants to instigate a telephone call with another telephone, the headset is caused to send a control signal to the mobile telephone instructing it to enter a data mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2003Publication date: September 7, 2006Inventors: Peter Courtney, Christopher White, Andrew Baker
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Patent number: D682484Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2012Date of Patent: May 14, 2013Inventor: Peter Courtney Selman