Patents by Inventor Robert Alan Ulichney
Robert Alan Ulichney 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: 9563293Abstract: A remote-controlled pointing system (32) includes a projector (36), an image sensor (34), and a controller (38). The projector (36) projects a beam (45) of light from a location in a projection plane (46) onto a scene (18). The image sensor (34) captures an image (54) of the scene (18) in a capture plane (50). The controller (38) performs operations that include transmitting the captured image (54) to a remote destination (14), receiving from the remote destination (14) a target beam location (44) in the capture plane (50), determining a location of the beam (45) in the capture plane (50), and changing the location in the projection plane (46) from which the beam (45) is projected based on the determined beam location and the target beam location (44).Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2008Date of Patent: February 7, 2017Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Robert Alan Ulichney, Matthew D. Gaubatz
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Patent number: 9535635Abstract: In one example, a first directive is received at a system. The directive is to embed, into content selected via a printer application accessed at a network-connected printer, a network address. A carrier image that includes the network address in encoded form is generated. A second directive, to provide first content to the printer, is received via the application. The carrier image is merged into the first content. After the merging, the merged first content is sent to the printer for printing.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2012Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Sekhar Muni Sirigiri, Matthew D. Gaubatz, Robert Alan Ulichney
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Patent number: 9454721Abstract: Document copying systems and methods include initiating a copy job for copying a document having document content. A log of the copy job is generated, and the document is scanned to create a document content image. The log is encoded using an input image to produce a data-bearing halftone image which is merged with the document content image. The merged data-bearing halftone image and the document content image are printed to produce a copy of the document.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2012Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Robert Alan Ulichney, Matthew D. Gaubatz, Stephen Pollard, Steven J Simske
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Patent number: 9373032Abstract: A forensic verification system (1100) extracts a print signature via a print signature extractor (1110) from an interior of a halftone contained in an image. The system (1100) utilizes a comparator (1120) to compare the print signature to a reference signature stored in a registry to determine differences between the print signature and the reference signature. The system (1100) utilizes a forensic analyzer (1130) to perform a forensic analysis on the signatures based on the comparison to authenticate the image.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2012Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Robert Alan Ulichney, Stephen Pollard, Matthew D Gaubatz, Steven J Simske
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Patent number: 9367776Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for tracing the source of a printed document. A method may include receiving a print job for printing a page having page content, generating a log of the print job, encoding the log using a mule image to produce a data-bearing halftone image, merging the data-bearing halftone image with the page content, and printing the merged data-bearing halftone image and page content to produce a printed document.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2011Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Robert Alan Ulichney, Shivaun Albright, Matthew D. Gaubatz
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Patent number: 9361516Abstract: A forensic verification system (700) extracts a print signature via print signature extractor 710 from the boundary of a halftone contained in an image. The system (700) compares the print signature to a reference signature stored in a registry via comparator 720 to determine differences between the print signature and the reference signature. The system 700 performs a forensic-level statistical image analysis via forensic analyzer 730 on the print signature and the reference signature based on the comparison to authenticate the printed media.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2012Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Robert Alan Ulichney, Stephen Pollard, Matthew D Gaubatz, Steven J Simske
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Patent number: 9361514Abstract: A forensic verification system (900) extracts a print signature via a print signature extractor (910) from a captured image of a printed halftone. The system (900) utilizes a comparator (920) to compare the print signature to a reference signature stored in a registry to determine differences between the print signature and the reference signature. The system (900) utilizes a forensic analyzer (930) to perform a forensic analysis on the signatures based on the comparison to authenticate the printed halftone.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2012Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Stephen Pollard, Robert Alan Ulichney, Matthew D Gaubatz, Steven J Simske
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Publication number: 20150220823Abstract: Document copying systems and methods include initiating a copy job (20) for copying a document (1) having document content. A log (22) of the copy job is generated, and the document is scanned to create a document content image (24). The log is encoded using an input image to produce a data-bearing halftone image (26) which is merged with the document content image (28). The merged data-bearing halftone image and the document content image are printed (30) to produce a copy (2) of the document.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2012Publication date: August 6, 2015Inventors: Robert Alan Ulichney, Matthew D. Gaubatz, Stephen Pollard, Steven J. Simske
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Patent number: 8937750Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present invention may divide data into a first of set of blocks and a second set of blocks, and data may be stored from non-overlapping frames surrounding the first set of blocks in memory. The data may be grouped from the non-overlapping frames surrounding the second set of blocks, and the data may be absorbed from the non-overlapping frames surrounding the first set of blocks into the second set of blocks. The data may be processed the first set of blocks and the second set of blocks in parallel.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2011Date of Patent: January 20, 2015Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Robert Alan Ulichney, John Ludd Recker, Ingeborg Tastl
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Publication number: 20140348395Abstract: A forensic verification system (900) extracts a print signature via a print signature extractor (910) from a captured image of a printed halftone. The system (900) utilizes a comparator (920) to compare the print signature to a reference signature stored in a registry to determine differences between the print signature and the reference signature. The system (900) utilizes a forensic analyzer (930) to perform a forensic analysis on the signatures based on the comparison to authenticate the printed halftone.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2012Publication date: November 27, 2014Inventors: Stephen Pollard, Robert Alan Ulichney, Matthew D. Gaubatz, Steven J. Simske
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Publication number: 20140348375Abstract: A forensic verification system (700) extracts a print signature via print signature extractor 710 from the boundary of a halftone contained in an image. The system (700) compares the print signature to a reference signature stored in a registry via comparator 720 to determine differences between the print signature and the reference signature. The system 700 performs a forensic-level statistical image analysis via forensic analyzer 730 on the print signature and the reference signature based on the comparison to authenticate the printed media.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2012Publication date: November 27, 2014Inventors: Robert Alan Ulichney, Stephen Pollard, Matthew D. Gaubatz, Steven J. Simske
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Patent number: 8797193Abstract: A parallel test payload includes a bit sequence configured to be segmented into a plurality of sub-sequences having variable bit length carriers. Respective carriers are represented uniformly in each one of the plurality of sub-sequences.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2010Date of Patent: August 5, 2014Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Robert Alan Ulichney, Steven J. Simske, Matthew D. Gaubatz
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Publication number: 20140211264Abstract: Techniques pertaining to printing a document are disclosed. A computer server may receive decoded document metadata and locate a document in a document repository using the document metadata. The server may determine whether the document metadata is indicative of a most recent version of the document and, if not, retrieve the most recent version of the document. The server may also create a tag for the retrieved most recent version of the document comprised of up to date document metadata in which the tag data is embedded in a graphic that is merged with the most recent version of the document. The server may create a print job for the most recent version of the document and send the print job to a network enabled printer over a network connection.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2013Publication date: July 31, 2014Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANYInventors: Sekhar Muni Sirigiri, Prabhakaran Shinoj, Robert Alan Ulichney, Matthew D. Gaubatz
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Publication number: 20140177006Abstract: In one example, a first directive is received at a system. The directive is to embed, into content selected via a printer application accessed at a network-connected printer, a network address. A carrier image that includes the network address in encoded form is generated. A second directive, to provide first content to the printer, is received via the application. The carrier image is merged into the first content. After the merging, the merged first content is sent to the printer for printing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2012Publication date: June 26, 2014Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Sekhar Muni Sirigiri, Matthew D. Gaubatz, Robert Alan Ulichney
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Publication number: 20140132991Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present invention may divide data into a first of set of blocks and a second set of blocks, and data may be stored from non-overlapping frames surrounding the first set of blocks in memory. The data may be grouped from the non-overlapping frames surrounding the second set of blocks, and the data may be absorbed from the non-overlapping frames surrounding the first set of blocks into the second set of blocks. The data may be processed the first set of blocks and the second set of blocks in parallel.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2011Publication date: May 15, 2014Inventors: Robert Alan Ulichney, John Ludd Recker, Ingeborg Tastl
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Publication number: 20140111831Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for tracing the source of a printed document. A method may include receiving a print job for printing a page having page content, generating a log of the print job, encoding the log using a mule image to produce a data-bearing halftone image, merging the data-bearing halftone image with the page content, and printing the merged data-bearing halftone image and page content to produce a printed document.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2011Publication date: April 24, 2014Inventors: Robert Alan Ulichney, Shivaun Albright, Matthew D. Gaubatz
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Patent number: 8634110Abstract: An edge refinement system includes a computer-readable medium encoded with a computer program having computer readable code for identifying carrier cells among shadow cells and highlight cells of a segmented image, computer readable code for determining if a predetermined edge condition is met by each of the identified carrier cells, and computer readable code for re-classifying the carrier cell as a non-carrier cell when the predetermined edge condition is met. The edge refinement system further includes memory and a processor operatively coupled to the memory and to the computer-readable medium.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2010Date of Patent: January 21, 2014Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventor: Robert Alan Ulichney
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Patent number: 8594453Abstract: An example provides a system and method of robust alignment and payload recovery for data-bearing images. The method includes digitizing a printed version of a stegatone, computing the transformation parameters of the stegatone, and processing individual local regions of the stegatone to determine local transformation parameters. The method also includes performing an alignment evaluation to compute a metric value that represents the quality of a local alignment between a reference halftone and the stegatone. Further, the method includes selecting alignment parameters based on optimization of the metric value, mapping the shift of clustered-dots in each cell in comparison to the reference halftone, and recovering the payload by decoding the stegatone.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2011Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Matthew D. Gaubatz, Robert Alan Ulichney
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Patent number: 8456699Abstract: A system for creating a data-bearing image can include a reference image generator configured to apply a clustered-dot halftone screen to a continuous-tone image. The resulting reference halftone image includes carrier cells in which a pixel cluster can be shifted to at least two shift positions in the carrier cell. The system also includes a payload encoder configured to segment the data payload and encode data segments into one of the carrier cells by shifting the cluster to one of the shift positions. The system also includes an output device configured to output the resulting data-bearing halftone image.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2009Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Robert Alan Ulichney, Steven J. Simske, Matthew D. Gaubatz
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Patent number: 8446494Abstract: Candidate redeye areas (24) are determined in an input image (20). In this process, a respective set of one or more redeye metric values (28) is associated with each of the candidate redeye areas (24). Candidate face areas (30) are ascertained in the input image (20). In this process, a respective set of one or more face metric values (34) is associated with each of the candidate face areas (30). A respective joint metric vector (78) is assigned to each of the candidate redeye areas (24). The joint metric vector (78) includes metric values that are derived from the respective set of redeye metric values (28) and the set of face metric values (34) associated with a selected one of the candidate face areas (30). Each of one or more of the candidate redeye areas (24) is classified as either a redeye artifact or a non-redeye artifact based on the respective joint metric vector (78) assigned to the candidate redeye area (24).Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2008Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Matthew D. Gaubatz, Robert Alan Ulichney