Patents by Inventor Ray Butler

Ray Butler 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: 11842541
    Abstract: This invention classifies an action that appears in a video clip by receiving a video clip for analysis, applying a convolutional neural network mechanism (CNN) to the frames in the clip to generate a 4D embedding tensor for each frame in the clip, applying a multi-resolution convolutional neural network mechanism (CNN) to each of the frames in the clip to generate a sequence of reduced resolution blocks, computing a kinematic attention weight that estimates the amount of motion in the block, applying the attention weights to the embedding tensors for each frame in a clip, to generate a weighted embedding tensor, or context, that represents all the frames in the clip, at the resolution, combining the contexts across all resolutions to generate a multi-resolution context, performing a 3D pooling to obtain a 1D feature vector and classifying a primary action of the video clip based on the feature vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: BEN GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Schubert R. Carvalho, Tyler Folkman, Richard Ray Butler
  • Patent number: 11842292
    Abstract: This invention predicts results for a media clip posted to a social media influencer channel by maintaining a database of results data for media clips where an influencer channel includes media clips that include unstructured data, and structured data, and then provide to a first machine learning model a first set of channel data, extracting a first set of features, predicting a value for the first target variable, providing to a second machine learning model a second set of channel data including a second selection of structured data, and the predicted value of the first target variable, extracting a second set of features, and predicting a value for the second target variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: BEN GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Richard Ray Butler, Estelle Evonne Cramer, Tyler Folkman, Jacob Bradshaw Maughan, Alexander Charles McFadyen, Theodore Sheffield
  • Patent number: 11507866
    Abstract: This invention predicts results for a media clip posted to a social media influencer channel by maintaining a database of results data for media clips where an influencer channel includes media clips that include unstructured data, and structured data, and then provide to a first machine learning model a first set of channel data, extracting a first set of features, predicting a value for the first target variable, providing to a second machine learning model a second set of channel data including a second selection of structured data, and the predicted value of the first target variable, extracting a second set of features, and predicting a value for the second target variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: BRANDED ENTERTAINMENT NETWORK, INC.
    Inventors: Richard Ray Butler, Estelle Evonne Cramer, Tyler Folkman, Jacob Bradshaw Maughan, Alexander Charles McFadyen, Theodore Sheffield
  • Patent number: 11270124
    Abstract: This invention classifies actions performed within a video clip, by receiving a video clip for analysis, where the video clip comprises a time sequence of video frames, applies a bottleneck attention mechanism to the frames in the clip to generate a reduced sequence of key-frames, applies a 2 dimensional (2D) convolutional neural network to the sequence of keyframes to obtain a 3D embedding tensor for each keyframe, applies a multi-headed attention mechanism to the 3D embedding tensors to generate a final action context, and apples a classification mechanism to the final action context to obtain a probability for each action class that indicates the likelihood that an action specified by the action class occurred in the video clip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: BRANDED ENTERTAINMENT NETWORK, INC.
    Inventors: Schubert R. Carvalho, Nicolas M. Bertagnolli, Tyler Folkman, Richard Ray Butler
  • Patent number: 11245180
    Abstract: New base station antenna systems may detect service affecting environmental changes, integrate to standardized computing platform and cellular wireless modem, transform BSA into an independent communications hub and generate test calls, reducing drive tests. A BSA includes a panel that includes a ground plane, at least a first array that includes multiple radiating elements, at least one sensor that is configured to sense an environmental condition corresponding to the base station antenna and to generate an environmental condition signal that corresponds to the environmental condition, a circuit device that includes a communication interface that is communicatively coupled to the at least one sensor and that is operable to receive the environmental condition signal from the at least one sensor, and a wireless transmitter that is communicatively coupled to the circuit device and that is operable to transmit message data corresponding to the environmental condition signal to a remote receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Mohamed Nadder Hamdy, Ray Butler
  • Publication number: 20210226322
    Abstract: New base station antenna systems may detect service affecting environmental changes, integrate to standardized computing platform and cellular wireless modem, transform BSA into an independent communications hub and generate test calls, reducing drive tests. A BSA includes a panel that includes a ground plane, at least a first array that includes multiple radiating elements, at least one sensor that is configured to sense an environmental condition corresponding to the base station antenna and to generate an environmental condition signal that corresponds to the environmental condition, a circuit device that includes a communication interface that is communicatively coupled to the at least one sensor and that is operable to receive the environmental condition signal from the at least one sensor, and a wireless transmitter that is communicatively coupled to the circuit device and that is operable to transmit message data corresponding to the environmental condition signal to a remote receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Mohamed Nadder Hamdy, Ray BUTLER
  • Patent number: 10794726
    Abstract: A method of calculating a climb-dive marker (CDM) that is visibly present on a display even as the aircraft approaches a roll angle of +/?90° is provided. An exemplary CDM method comprises obtaining, an X-axis velocity, a Y-axis velocity, and a Z-axis velocity in aircraft body coordinates of an aircraft; calculating a CDM elevation; and displaying, by the controller, the calculated CDM elevation. The method can further comprise obtaining an angle of attack (AoA) of the aircraft and a roll angle of the aircraft, wherein the AoA is set as the value of the CDM elevation when the roll angle is within a preset range. The CDM elevation may also be calculated using a combination of the AOA and the CDM formula when roll angle is within a second preset range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: ELBIT SYSTEMS OF AMERICA, LLC
    Inventors: John Timothy Pearson, Lawerance Ray Butler, Keith Thomas Grandin, Michael Allen Robb
  • Patent number: 10731981
    Abstract: A combined altitude display apparatus for generating a combined altitude value is provided. The apparatus comprises a first altitude input interface, wherein the first altitude input interface receives a first altitude value; a second altitude input interface, wherein the second altitude input interface receives a second altitude value, wherein the second altitude value indicated by the second altitude input interface has a cyclical range; an altitude output interface, wherein the altitude output interface outputs a third altitude value; and a data fusion component coupled to the first altitude input interface and the second altitude input interface and configured to calculate the third altitude value based on the first altitude value and the second altitude value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Elbit Systems of America, LLC
    Inventors: John Timothy Pearson, Lawerance Ray Butler, Keith Thomas Grandin, Michael Allen Robb, Donald Grant Gwynne
  • Publication number: 20190025077
    Abstract: A method of calculating a climb-dive marker (CDM) that is visibly present on a display even as the aircraft approaches a roll angle of +/?90° is provided. An exemplary CDM method comprises obtaining, an X-axis velocity, a Y-axis velocity, and a Z-axis velocity in aircraft body coordinates of an aircraft; calculating a CDM elevation; and displaying, by the controller, the calculated CDM elevation. The method can further comprise obtaining an angle of attack (AoA) of the aircraft and a roll angle of the aircraft, wherein the AoA is set as the value of the CDM elevation when the roll angle is within a preset range. The CDM elevation may also be calculated using a combination of the AOA and the CDM formula when roll angle is within a second preset range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicant: ELBIT SYSTEMS OF AMERICA, LLC
    Inventors: John Timothy PEARSON, Lawerance Ray BUTLER, Keith Thomas GRANDIN, Michael Allen ROBB
  • Publication number: 20190025054
    Abstract: A combined altitude display apparatus for generating a combined altitude value is provided. The apparatus comprises a first altitude input interface, wherein the first altitude input interface receives a first altitude value; a second altitude input interface, wherein the second altitude input interface receives a second altitude value, wherein the second altitude value indicated by the second altitude input interface has a cyclical range; an altitude output interface, wherein the altitude output interface outputs a third altitude value; and a data fusion component coupled to the first altitude input interface and the second altitude input interface and configured to calculate the third altitude value based on the first altitude value and the second altitude value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicant: ELBIT SYSTEMS OF AMERICA, LLC
    Inventors: John Timothy PEARSON, Lawerance Ray BUTLER, Keith Thomas GRANDIN, Michael Allen ROBB, Donald Grant GWYNNE
  • Patent number: D894228
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Kimberly Ray Butler, Alexander Campos Gocotano, Daniel Blake Jarvis, Dean Anderson Nellis, Koc Liong Ong, Joanna Musick Hall Smith, Jonathan Ashley Ward, Kelsi Strawzell Ward, Katherine Elizabeth Tackett
  • Patent number: D894230
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Kimberly Ray Butler, Alexander Campos Gocotano, Daniel Blake Jarvis, Dean Anderson Nellis, Koc Liong Ong, Joanna Musick Hall Smith, Jonathan Ashley Ward, Kelsi Strawzell Ward
  • Patent number: D894231
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Kimberly Ray Butler, Alexander Campos Gocotano, Daniel Blake Jarvis, Dean Anderson Nellis, Koc Liong Ong, Joanna Musick Hall Smith, Jonathan Ashley Ward, Kelsi Strawzell Ward, Katherine Elizabeth Tackett
  • Patent number: D894232
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Kimberly Ray Butler, Alexander Campos Gocotano, Daniel Blake Jarvis, Dean Anderson Nellis, Koc Liong Ong, Joanna Musick Hall Smith, Jonathan Ashley Ward, Kelsi Strawzell Ward, Katherine Elizabeth Tackett
  • Patent number: D894234
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Kimberly Ray Butler, Alexander Campos Gocotano, Daniel Blake Jarvis, Dean Anderson Nellis, Koc Liong Ong, Joanna Musick Hall Smith, Jonathan Ashley Ward, Kelsi Strawzell Ward, Katherine Elizabeth Tackett
  • Patent number: D894235
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Kimberly Ray Butler, Alexander Campos Gocotano, Daniel Blake Jarvis, Dean Anderson Nellis, Koc Liong Ong, Joanna Musick Hall Smith, Jonathan Ashley Ward, Kelsi Strawzell Ward, Katherine Elizabeth Tackett
  • Patent number: D894236
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Kimberly Ray Butler, Alexander Campos Gocotano, Daniel Blake Jarvis, Dean Anderson Nellis, Koc Liong Ong, Joanna Musick Hall Smith, Jonathan Ashley Ward, Kelsi Strawzell Ward, Katherine Elizabeth Tackett
  • Patent number: D894237
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Kimberly Ray Butler, Alexander Campos Gocotano, Daniel Blake Jarvis, Dean Anderson Nellis, Koc Liong Ong, Joanna Musick Hall Smith, Jonathan Ashley Ward, Kelsi Strawzell Ward, Katherine Elizabeth Tackett
  • Patent number: D894961
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Kimberly Ray Butler, Alexander Campos Gocotano, Daniel Blake Jarvis, Dean Anderson Nellis, Koc Liong Ong, Joanna Musick Hall Smith, Jonathan Ashley Ward, Kelsi Strawzell Ward, Katherine Elizabeth Tackett
  • Patent number: D894962
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Kimberly Ray Butler, Alexander Campos Gocotano, Daniel Blake Jarvis, Dean Anderson Nellis, Koc Liong Ong, Joanna Musick Hall Smith, Jonathan Ashley Ward, Kelsi Strawzell Ward, Katherine Elizabeth Tackett