Patents by Inventor Thomas Lowes
Thomas Lowes 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: 11970287Abstract: An introduced autonomous aerial vehicle can include multiple cameras for capturing images of a surrounding physical environment that are utilized for motion planning by an autonomous navigation system. In some embodiments, the cameras can be integrated into one or more rotor assemblies that house powered rotors to free up space within the body of the aerial vehicle. In an example embodiment, an aerial vehicle includes multiple upward-facing cameras and multiple downward-facing cameras with overlapping fields of view to enable stereoscopic computer vision in a plurality of directions around the aerial vehicle. Similar camera arrangements can also be implemented in fixed-wing aerial vehicles.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Skydio, Inc.Inventors: Benjamin Scott Thompson, Adam Parker Bry, Asher Mendel Robbins-Rothman, Abraham Galton Bachrach, Yevgeniy Kozlenko, Kevin Patrick Smith O'Leary, Patrick Allen Lowe, Daniel Thomas Adams, Justin Michael Sadowski, Zachary Albert West, Josiah Timothy VanderMey
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Patent number: 11967023Abstract: A method for use in colourising a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud of an environment, the method including determining timing information indicative of a time of capture of a frame; identifying at least some 3D points of the point cloud in the frame based on the position of the camera and determining a local point cloud that captures a scene in the immediate vicinity of the camera, wherein a visibility check is performed on the local point cloud to determine points in the local point cloud that are visible from the perspective of the camera for a given frame; and determining a candidate colour for the at least some of the 3D points using a colour of a corresponding pixel in the frame extracted from the video data; and, assigning a colour to one or more points of the 3D point cloud using candidate colours obtained from multiple frames.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Pavel Vechersky, Mark Cox, Paulo Borges, Thomas Lowe, Michael Bosse
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Publication number: 20240083997Abstract: This invention relates to methods employing IL-1 beta-ligand/IL-1 receptor disrupting compounds, such as IL-1 beta antibodies or IL-1 receptor antibodies, in the treatment and/or prevention of auto-inflammatory syndromes in mammals, particularly humans.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Hermann GRAM, Thomas JUNG, Philip LOWE, Trevor MUNDEL, Timothy WRIGHT
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Patent number: 11852501Abstract: A system for generating a costmap for use in planning a path through an environment, the system including one or more suitably programmed processing devices configured to obtain a map of the environment, acquire traversal data indicative of an ability to traverse parts of the environment, for each part of the environment, calculate a traversal indicator indicative of the ability to traverse the part, the traversal indicator being calculated in a colour space, and colourise the map using the traversal indicators to thereby generate a colourised costmap indicative of an ability to traverse the environment, the colourised costmap allowing path planning to be performed.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATIONInventors: Paulo Borges, Thomas Lowe, Tirthankar Bandyopadhyay, Riley Bowyer
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Publication number: 20230095898Abstract: A system for generating a costmap for use in planning a path through an environment, the system including one or more suitably programmed processing devices configured to obtain a map of the environment, acquire traversal data indicative of an ability to traverse parts of the environment, for each part of the environment, calculate a traversal indicator indicative of the ability to traverse the part, the traversal indicator being calculated in a colour space, and colourise the map using the traversal indicators to thereby generate a colourised costmap indicative of an ability to traverse the environment, the colourised costmap allowing path planning to be performed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2021Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATIONInventors: Paulo BORGES, Thomas LOWE, Tirthankar BANDYOPADHYAY, Riley BOWYER
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Publication number: 20220139033Abstract: A method for use in colourising a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud of an environment, the method including determining timing information indicative of a time of capture of a frame; identifying at least some 3D points of the point cloud in the frame based on the position of the camera and determining a local point cloud that captures a scene in the immediate vicinity of the camera, wherein a visibility check is performed on the local point cloud to determine points in the local point cloud that are visible from the perspective of the camera for a given frame; and determining a candidate colour for the at least some of the 3D points using a colour of a corresponding pixel in the frame extracted from the video data; and, assigning a colour to one or more points of the 3D point cloud using candidate colours obtained from multiple frames.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2022Publication date: May 5, 2022Applicant: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Pavel Vechersky, Mark Cox, Paulo Borges, Thomas Lowe, Michael Bosse
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Patent number: 11270501Abstract: A method for use in colourising a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud of an environment, the method including determining timing information indicative of a time of capture of a frame; identifying at least some 3D points of the point cloud in the frame based on the position of the camera and determining a local point cloud that captures a scene in the immediate vicinity of the camera, wherein a visibility check is performed on the local point cloud to determine points in the local point cloud that are visible from the perspective of the camera for a given frame; and determining a candidate colour for the at least some of the 3D points using a colour of a corresponding pixel in the frame extracted from the video data; and, assigning a colour to one or more points of the 3D point cloud using candidate colours obtained from multiple frames.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2019Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Pavel Vechersky, Mark Cox, Paulo Borges, Thomas Lowe, Michael Bosse
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Publication number: 20210042997Abstract: A method for use in colourising a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud of an environment, the method including determining timing information indicative of a time of capture of a frame; identifying at least some 3D points of the point cloud in the frame based on the position of the camera and determining a local point cloud that captures a scene in the immediate vicinity of the camera, wherein a visibility check is performed on the local point cloud to determine points in the local point cloud that are visible from the perspective of the camera for a given frame; and determining a candidate colour for the at least some of the 3D points using a colour of a corresponding pixel in the frame extracted from the video data; and, assigning a colour to one or more points of the 3D point cloud using candidate colours obtained from multiple frames.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2019Publication date: February 11, 2021Applicant: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrginisationInventors: Pavel Vechersky, Mark Cox, Paul Borges, Thomas Lowe, Michael Bosse
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Patent number: 10586385Abstract: A system for generating a three-dimensional geometric model of a structure, the system including a portable sensing device that can be transported through the structure, wherein the sensing device includes one or more sensors that generate sensor data at least partially indicative of a position of the sensing device relative to at least part of the structure and at least one electronic processing device that determines a captured map of at least part of the structure using the sensor data, determines at least part of a path traversed by the sensing device using the sensor data, identifies one or more model features using the part of the path and the captured map and generates a three-dimensional geometric model of the structure using the model features.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2016Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Peyman Moghadam, Thomas Lowe
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Publication number: 20180075648Abstract: A system for generating a three-dimensional geometric model of a structure, the system including a portable sensing device that can be transported through the structure, wherein the sensing device includes one or more sensors that generate sensor data at least partially indicative of a position of the sensing device relative to at least part of the structure and at least one electronic processing device that determines a captured map of at least part of the structure using the sensor data, determines at least part of a path traversed by the sensing device using the sensor data, identifies one or more model features using the part of the path and the captured map and generates a three-dimensional geometric model of the structure using the model features.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2016Publication date: March 15, 2018Inventors: Peyman MOGHADAM, Thomas LOWE
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Patent number: 9694560Abstract: There is provided a multi-layer adhesive for reducing squeeze out. The multi-layer adhesive comprises a first adhesive layer having a first adhesive property and a second adhesive layer having a second adhesive property. The second adhesive property is different from the first adhesive property. The first adhesive layer and the second adhesive layer form a film adhesive. In another embodiment, there is provided a structure comprising a first component and a second component bonded with the multi-layer adhesive.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2008Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Stephen Barnes, Thomas Lowe
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Patent number: 9449416Abstract: The invention relates to a method and system of forming an animation of a virtual object within a virtual environment, and a storage medium storing a computer program for carrying out such a method. The virtual object comprises a plurality of object parts, and one or more predetermined object part groups each being a sequence of linked object parts. The method includes generating a target configuration for the parts of the object part group, using a scale factor to scale the target configuration.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2012Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: Zynga Inc.Inventors: Danny Chapman, Thomas Lowe
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Patent number: 8730245Abstract: In a method of defining an animation of a virtual object, during which values for attributes of the virtual object are updated at each of a series of time points, a user specifies a structure representing the update that includes a plurality of items and one or more connections between respective items. Each item represents a respective operation. Each connection represents that data output by the operation represented by one item is input to the operation represented by the connected item. The user specifies that the structure comprises one or more items in a predetermined category associated with a predetermined process that may be executed at most a predetermined number of times at each time point. An item belongs to the predetermined category if performing the respective operation represented by that item requires execution of the predetermined process. One or more rules are applied.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2009Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: NaturalMotion Ltd.Inventors: Thomas Lowe, Danny Chapman, Timothy Daoust, James Brewster
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Publication number: 20130222433Abstract: The invention relates to a method and system of forming an animation of a virtual object within a virtual environment, and a storage medium storing a computer program for carrying out such a method. The virtual object comprises a plurality of object parts, and one or more predetermined object part groups each being a sequence of linked object parts. The method includes generating a target configuration for the parts of the object part group, using a scale factor to scale the target configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 29, 2012Publication date: August 29, 2013Inventors: Danny Chapman, Thomas Lowe
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Patent number: 8008487Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of formula (I), thieno[2,3-d]pyrimidines, having fungicidal activity.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2005Date of Patent: August 30, 2011Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLCInventors: William Kirkland Brewster, Carla Jean Rasmussen Klittich, Terry William Balko, Nneka Tuere Breaux, William Randal Erickson, James Edward Hunter, Christian Thomas Lowe, Michael John Ricks, Thomas Lyman Siddall, Carla Nanette Yerkes, Yuanming Zhu
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Publication number: 20100134501Abstract: A method of defining an animation of a virtual object within a virtual world, wherein the animation comprises performing, at each of a series of time points, an update that updates values for object attributes of the virtual object, the method comprising: allowing a user to define the update by specifying, on a user interface, a structure representing the update, wherein the structure comprises a plurality of items and one or more connections between respective items, wherein each item represents a respective operation that may be performed when performing the update and wherein a connection between two items represents that data output by the operation represented by one of those two items is input to the operation represented by the other of those two items; allowing the user to specify that the structure comprises one or more items in a predetermined category, the predetermined category being associated with a predetermined process such that an item belongs to the predetermined category if performing the rType: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2009Publication date: June 3, 2010Inventors: Thomas Lowe, Danny Chapman, Timothy Daoust, James Brewster
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Publication number: 20090317610Abstract: The disclosure provides for a multi-layer adhesive for reducing squeeze out. The multi-layer adhesive comprises a first adhesive layer having a first adhesive property and a second adhesive layer having a second adhesive property. The second adhesive property is different from the first adhesive property. The first adhesive layer and the second adhesive layer form a film adhesive. In another embodiment, the disclosure provides a structure comprising a first component and a second component bonded with the multi-layer adhesive of the disclosed embodiments.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2008Publication date: December 24, 2009Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Stephen Barnes, Thomas Lowe
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Patent number: 7531482Abstract: The present invention relates to thieno[2,3-d]-pyrimidine compounds having fungicidal activity. Specifically, the present invention relates to compounds having the Formula (I): wherein each R1, R2 and R3 is independently selected from the group consisting of H, halogen, and alkyl; A is selected from the group consisting of H and alkyl; W is selected from the group consisting of NH and O; D is selected from O, NH and S; E is (—C(O)—)p—R?, wherein p is 0 or 1 and R? is selected from the group consisting of optionally substituted rings selected from phenyl.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2005Date of Patent: May 12, 2009Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLCInventors: William Kirkland Brewster, David Anthony Demeter, William Randal Erickson, Carla Jean Rasmussen Klittich, Christian Thomas Lowe, Brent Jeffrey Rieder, Jaime Susanne Nugent, Carla Nanette Yerkes, Yuanming Zhu, Terry William Balko
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Patent number: 7432227Abstract: 4-Aminopicolinic acids having alkyl or alkenyl substituents in the 6-position and their amine and acid derivatives are potent herbicides demonstrating a broad spectrum of weed control.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2004Date of Patent: October 7, 2008Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLCInventors: Terry William Balko, Ann Marie Buysse, Stephen Craig Fields, Nicholas Martin Irvine, William Chi-Leung Lo, Christian Thomas Lowe, John Sanders Richburg, Paul Richard Schmitzer
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Patent number: 7291580Abstract: 4-Aminopicolinic acids having (1,1-difluoroalkyl) substituents in the 6-position and their amine and acid derivatives are potent herbicides demonstrating a broad spectrum of weed control.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2004Date of Patent: November 6, 2007Assignee: Dow AgroSciences LLCInventors: Terry William Balko, Stephen Craig Fields, Nicholas Martin Irvine, Christian Thomas Lowe, Paul Richard Schmitzer