Patents by Inventor Shawn C. Deyell

Shawn C. Deyell 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).

  • Simulating variances in human writing with digital typography
    Patent number: 9865071
    Abstract: Methods and systems for rendering text to simulate human penmanship are described. A text rendering engine converts a text string into an image that can be displayed using one or more seed numbers to influence the rendering and appearance of the text. The text rendering engine may render variations of each character of the text string using the seed numbers to select from a set of single-character or multi-character glyphs, or to modify a size, weight, slope, or Bezier curve point of the character.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Patrick Bacus, Shawn C. Deyell, Hong Chen
  • SIMULATING VARIANCES IN HUMAN WRITING WITH DIGITAL TYPOGRAPHY
    Publication number: 20160078660
    Abstract: Methods and systems for rendering text to simulate human penmanship are described. A text rendering engine converts a text string into an image that can be displayed using one or more seed numbers to influence the rendering and appearance of the text. The text rendering engine may render variations of each character of the text string using the seed numbers to select from a set of single-character or multi-character glyphs, or to modify a size, weight, slope, or Bezier curve point of the character.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Michael Patrick Bacus, Shawn C. Deyell, Hong Chen
  • Annotation mapping
    Patent number: 9275368
    Abstract: A method for annotation mapping includes identifying a set of differences between a first version of a document and a second version of the document, the first version comprising annotations. The method further includes generating a position map that maps differences between the first version and the second version, where the position map facilitates the migration of the annotations from the first version to the second version.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Manoj Suresh Harpalani, Michael Patrick Bacus, Shawn C. Deyell, Sherif M. Yacoub, Daniel W. Shafer, Ameya B. Datar
  • Simulating variances in human writing with digital typography
    Patent number: 9230514
    Abstract: Methods and systems for rendering text to simulate human penmanship are described. A text rendering engine converts a text string into an image that can be displayed on a string using one or more seed numbers to influence the rendering and appearance of the text. The text rendering engine may render each character of the text string using a size, weight, slope, or Bezier curve control point selected based on the seed numbers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Patrick Bacus, Shawn C. Deyell, Hong Chen