Patents by Inventor Robert S. Jones
Robert S. Jones 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: 20080154506Abstract: A method of coordinating surveys of different origins and which may be projected into different coordinate systems. The method provides a translation and rotation of the surveys to be coordinated without disturbing the internal geometry of each survey. A geographic information system including a procedure for coordinating surveys of different origins and/or which surveys which projected in different coordinate systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2007Publication date: June 26, 2008Inventor: Robert S. Jones
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Publication number: 20080154507Abstract: A method of coordinating surveys of different origins and which may be projected into different coordinate systems. The method provides a translation and rotation of the surveys to be coordinated without disturbing the internal geometry of each survey. A geographic information system including a procedure for coordinating surveys of different origins and/or which surveys which projected in different coordinate systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2007Publication date: June 26, 2008Inventor: Robert S. Jones
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Patent number: 7376516Abstract: A method of coordinating surveys of different origins and which may be projected into different coordinate systems. The method provides a translation and rotation of the surveys to be coordinated without disturbing the internal geometry of each survey. A geographic information system including a procedure for coordinating surveys of different origins and/or which surveys which projected in different coordinate systems.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2006Date of Patent: May 20, 2008Assignee: R.A. Smith NationalInventor: Robert S. Jones
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Patent number: 7340607Abstract: A method for preserving a digitally signed document (160) in a digital data preservation system (10). A secure preservation request (176) combines the document (160) with a preservation signature (174) that is generated using an identification mark (172) and the document's associated digital signature (168). Once the document (160) is authenticated by the digital preservation system vendor, both the document (160) and the identification mark (172) are recorded onto preservation media (210) in human-readable form.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2003Date of Patent: March 4, 2008Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Vishwas G. Abhyankar, Victor C. Wong, Robert V. Reisch, Robert Breslawski, Robert S. Jones, Donald R. Williams, Robert B. Bayley, Badhri Narayan, Louis S. Horvath
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Patent number: 7340482Abstract: A digital preservation system (10) for accepting a digital data record as input, for providing a preview of the digital data record on a display screen (80), for writing the data record in human-readable form onto a preservation-quality medium (210), for storage of the medium (210), and for retrieval of the data record from the medium (210. The digital preservation system (10) preserves a data record in human-readable form, along with an associated metadata record, allowing the human-readable preserved data record to be readable in the distant future, independent of specific reading hardware. A preview function allows an operator to specify storage and retrieval characteristics for the data record.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2002Date of Patent: March 4, 2008Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Vishwas G. Abhyankar, Victor C. Wong, Robert Breslawski, Robert S. Jones, Badhri Narayan, Robert V. Reisch, Donald R. Williams, Robert B. Bayley, Nelson A. Blish, Louis G. Horvath
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Patent number: 7212322Abstract: A digital preservation system (10) for accepting a digital data record as input, for providing a preview of the digital data record on a display screen (80), for writing the data record in human-readable form onto a preservation-quality medium (210), for storage of the medium (210), and for retrieval of the data record from the medium (210). The digital preservation system (10) preserves a data record in human-readable form, along with an associated metadata record, allowing the human-readable preserved data record to be readable in the distant future, independent of specific reading hardware. The preview function allows an operator to specify storage and retrieval characteristics for the data record.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2002Date of Patent: May 1, 2007Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Vishwas G. Abhyankar, Victor C. Wong, Robert Breslawski, Robert S. Jones, Badhri Narayan, Robert V. Reisch, Donald R. Williams, Robert B. Bayley, Lou Horvath, Nelson G. Blish
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Patent number: 7177476Abstract: A method for decoding data that has been encoded in a monochrome medium utilizing the capability of the medium for grayscale resolution. A document is processed to provide an image in electronic format, in which each pixel has an assigned data value with a given bit depth. A mapping operation is performed for generating a monochrome data word (120), preferably having a reduced bit depth. The monochrome data word (120) can be used to encode multiple data fields (114, 116, 118). A printer (92) then produces a preserved document record (90) in which the appropriate monochrome data word (120) determines the grayscale value for each pixel. To decode the stored data, a scanner (86) is employed to obtain the grayscale value from the preserved document record (90). For each pixel, the grayscale value is then decomposed into multiple data fields (114, 116, 118), which can then be decoded to provide the information that was originally encoded.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2002Date of Patent: February 13, 2007Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Vishwas G. Abhyankar, Victor C. Wong, Robert Breslawski, Robert S. Jones, Badhri Narayan, Robert V. Reisch, Donald R. Williams, Robert B. Bayley, Richard Weil, Robert G. Duncan
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Patent number: 7042483Abstract: An apparatus and method for printing images from a digital image source onto a photosensitive medium (22) using one or more two-dimensional light-emissive arrays (51) such as OLED arrays. Each image pixel has a corresponding light-emitting element which is assigned a variable intensity based on data for that pixel. Imaging optics (58) direct the light from each light-emitting element onto the photosensitive medium (22) so that a monochromatic or multicolor image can be formed with a single exposure.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2003Date of Patent: May 9, 2006Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Victor C. Wong, Robert V. Reisch, Robert Breslawski, Vishwas G. Abhyankar, Robert S. Jones, Donald R. Williams, Robert B. Bayley, Badhri Narayan
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Patent number: 7003166Abstract: A method for encoding data in a monochrome media utilizing the capability of the media for grayscale resolution. A document is processed to provide an image in electronic format, in which each pixel has an assigned data value with a given bit depth. A mapping operation is performed for generating a monochrome data word (120), preferably having a reduced bit depth. The monochrome data word (120) can be used to encode multiple data fields (114, 116, 118). A printer (92) then produces a preserved document record (90) in which the appropriate monochrome data word (120) determines the grayscale value for each pixel.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2002Date of Patent: February 21, 2006Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Vishwas G. Abhyankar, Victor C. Wong, Robert Breslawski, Robert S. Jones, Badhri Narayan, Robert V. Reisch, Donald R. Williams, Robert B. Bayley, Richard Weil, Robert G. Duncan
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Publication number: 20040179088Abstract: An apparatus and method for printing images from a digital image source onto a photosensitive medium (22) using one or more two-dimensional light-emissive arrays (51) such as OLED arrays. Each image pixel has a corresponding light-emitting element which is assigned a variable intensity based on data for that pixel. Imaging optics (58) direct the light from each light-emitting element onto the photosensitive medium (22) so that a monochromatic or multicolor image can be formed with a single exposure.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2003Publication date: September 16, 2004Applicant: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Victor C. Wong, Robert V. Reisch, Robert Breslawski, Vishwas G. Abhyankar, Robert S. Jones, Donald R. Williams, Robert B. Bayley, Badhri Narayan
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Publication number: 20040153653Abstract: A method for preserving a digitally signed document (160) in a digital data preservation system (10). A secure preservation request (176) combines the document (160) with a preservation signature (174) that is generated using an identification mark (172) and the document's associated digital signature (168). Once the document (160) is authenticated by the digital preservation system vendor, both the document (160) and the identification mark (172) are recorded onto preservation media (210) in human-readable form.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2003Publication date: August 5, 2004Applicant: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Vishwas G. Abhyankar, Victor C. Wong, Robert V. Reisch, Robert Breslawski, Robert S. Jones, Donald R. Williams, Robert B. Bayley, Badhri Narayan, Louis S. Horvath
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Publication number: 20030233371Abstract: A digital preservation system (10) for accepting a digital data record as input, for providing a preview of the digital data record on a display screen (80), for writing the data record in human-readable form onto a preservation-quality medium (210), for storage of the medium (210), and for retrieval of the data record from the medium (210. The digital preservation system (10) preserves a data record in human-readable form, along with an associated metadata record, allowing the human-readable preserved data record to be readable in the distant future, independent of specific reading hardware. A preview function allows an operator to specify storage and retrieval characteristics for the data record.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2002Publication date: December 18, 2003Applicant: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Vishwas G. Abhyankar, Victor C. Wong, Robert Breslawski, Robert S. Jones, Badhri Narayan, Robert V. Reisch, Donald R. Williams, Robert B. Bayley, Nelson A. Blish, Louis G. Horvath
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Publication number: 20030174349Abstract: A digital preservation system (10) for accepting a digital data record as input, for providing a preview of the digital data record on a display screen (80), for writing the data record in human-readable form onto a preservation-quality medium (210), for storage of the medium (210), and for retrieval of the data record from the medium (210). The digital preservation system (10) preserves a data record in human-readable form, along with an associated metadata record, allowing the human-readable preserved data record to be readable in the distant future, independent of specific reading hardware. The preview function allows an operator to specify storage and retrieval characteristics for the data record.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2002Publication date: September 18, 2003Applicant: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Vishwas G. Abhyankar, Victor C. Wong, Robert Breslawski, Robert S. Jones, Badhri Narayan, Robert V. Reisch, Donald R. Williams, Robert B. Bayley, Lou Horvath, Nelson G. Blish
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Publication number: 20030161016Abstract: A method for decoding data that has been encoded in a monochrome medium utilizing the capability of the medium for grayscale resolution. A document is processed to provide an image in electronic format, in which each pixel has an assigned data value with a given bit depth. A mapping operation is performed for generating a monochrome data word (120), preferably having a reduced bit depth. The monochrome data word (120) can be used to encode multiple data fields (114, 116, 118). A printer (92) then produces a preserved document record (90) in which the appropriate monochrome data word (120) determines the grayscale value for each pixel. To decode the stored data, a scanner (86) is employed to obtain the grayscale value from the preserved document record (90). For each pixel, the grayscale value is then decomposed into multiple data fields (114, 116, 118), which can then be decoded to provide the information that was originally encoded.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2002Publication date: August 28, 2003Applicant: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Wishwas G. Abhyankar, Victor C. Wong, Robert Breslawski, Robert S. Jones, Badhri Narayan, Robert V. Reisch, Donald R. Williams, Robert B. Bayley, Richard Weil, Robert G. Duncan
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Publication number: 20030142327Abstract: A method for encoding data in a monochrome media utilizing the capability of the media for grayscale resolution. A document is processed to provide an image in electronic format, in which each pixel has an assigned data value with a given bit depth. A mapping operation is performed for generating a monochrome data word (120), preferably having a reduced bit depth. The monochrome data word (120) can be used to encode multiple data fields (114, 116, 118). A printer (92) then produces a preserved document record (90) in which the appropriate monochrome data word (120) determines the grayscale value for each pixel.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2002Publication date: July 31, 2003Applicant: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Vishwas G. Abhyankar, Victor C. Wong, Robert Breslawski, Robert S. Jones, Badhri Narayan, Robert V. Reisch, Donald R. Williams, Robert B. Bayley, Richard Weil, Robert G. Duncan
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Publication number: 20030090531Abstract: A digital preservation system (10) for accepting a digital data record as input, for writing the data record in human-readable form onto a preservation-quality medium (210), for storage of the medium (210), and for retrieval of the data record from the medium (210). The system (10) is modular, allowing scaling of the system (10), allowing preferential selection of specific image handling components, and allowing replacement of complete subsystems while minimizing the likelihood of data loss. The digital preservation system (10) preserves a data record in human-readable form, along with an associated metadata record, allowing the human-readable preserved data record to be readable in the distant future, independent of specific reading hardware.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2001Publication date: May 15, 2003Applicant: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Victor C. Wong, Vishwas G. Abhyankar, Robert Breslawski, Lou Horvath, Robert S. Jones, Badhri Narayan, Robert V. Reisch, Donald R. Williams, Robert B. Bayley
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Patent number: 6489914Abstract: A RSD analog to digital converter has an RSD stage that in turn has a switched capacitor integrator (SCI). The SCI uses an operational amplifier. A capacitor, which operates as a offset compensation capacitor, is precharged to the offset voltage of the operational amplifier during a precharge phase. The next phase switches this offset compensation capacitor in the path of the capacitors which are used to perform the integration. The effect is that the offset of the operational amplifier is corrected by the use of the compensation capacitor that had been precharged to the offset voltage during the previous phase.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2001Date of Patent: December 3, 2002Assignee: Motorola, Inc.Inventors: Robert S. Jones, III, Brett J. Thompsen
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Patent number: 6394671Abstract: Apparatus for removing a film strip from a film leader card includes (a) a feed section for holding the film leader card stationary in a first predetermined position with the film strip attached via protrusions to a film clip, said feed section having an entry port through which the film leader card is fully inserted in a forward direction with the film strip extending in a backward direction outward through the entry port; (b) means for forming a loop in the film that is folded underneath the film leader card in order to rotate the end of the film strip away from the film clip on the opposite side of the film leader card, thereby causing the film strip to de-tension from the protrusions; (c) a pinch roller assembly; (d) a detach mechanism for engaging the loop and extending it further under the film leader card toward, but not contacting, the pinch roller assembly, said detach mechanism including cams for further rotating the film strip until it is completely inverted and oriented in the forward direction, sType: GrantFiled: October 13, 2000Date of Patent: May 28, 2002Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Robert S. Jones, Daniel R. Rose
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Patent number: 6346908Abstract: A method for operating a circuit in an analog to digital converter, including providing a resistor network (205) having a plurality of resistor banks (200) connected together, each resistor bank of the plurality of resistor banks having a plurality of resistors (210) connected together in series and a plurality of first switches (220) for selecting a node (215) between adjacent resistors, and a plurality of second switches (235) for selecting a chosen resistor bank of the plurality of resistor banks. A first switch is closed in a chosen resistor bank to charge a parasitic capacitance (250), and a second switch is closed after closing the first switch, and after charging the parasitic capacitance in the chosen resistor bank.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2000Date of Patent: February 12, 2002Assignee: Motorola, Inc.Inventor: Robert S. Jones, III
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Patent number: 6297757Abstract: A data processing system (20) includes a plurality of modules (44, 48) and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) (46). The ADC (46) includes at least one port terminal (66) for transmitting test information from the ADC (46). The plurality of modules (44,48) and the ADC (46) are coupled to a central processing unit (CPU) (22) via an intermodule bus (42). A tester can exchange test information with the ADC (46) directly through the port terminal (66) instead of using the intermodule bus (42). Also, various sub-modules (62, 64, 60, 74) of the ADC (46) can be independently tested without performing a conversion process.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 1999Date of Patent: October 2, 2001Assignee: Motorola, Inc.Inventors: Jules D. Campbell, Jr., Jiang Chen, Robert S. Jones, III, Christian Ahrens, Scott Willard Herrin