Patents by Inventor William Conrad Altmann

William Conrad Altmann 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: 11875693
    Abstract: Introduced here are teaching system for realistically simulating medical situations in such a manner to test individuals as to the adequacy of their learning. A teaching system may include a manikin representative of a patient, an image projection mechanism, a simulation mechanism, a headpiece, a pair of hand coverings, a controller, a performance review mechanism, a recording device, a scenario generation mechanism, or any combination thereof. The teaching system can improve upon conventional simulation in several respects. First, the script corresponding to a simulation session may be dynamically traversed to mimic the unpredictability of an actual medical situation. Second, the action(s) of an individual may be actively monitored to discover whether her behavior complied with the relevant protocol(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: CODESCRIBE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ronald W. Jimenez, Che-Chuen Ho, William Conrad Altmann
  • Publication number: 20220233844
    Abstract: A topical nerve stimulation patch includes a substrate, a dermis conforming bottom surface of the substrate, a top outer surface of the substrate, a plurality of electrodes positioned on the patch proximal to the bottom surface and located beneath the top outer surface and coupled to the substrate, a power source and electronic circuitry embedded in the patch and located beneath the top outer surface and coupled to the substrate. The electronic circuitry is configured to generate an electrical stimuli via the electrodes that comprise a plurality of pulses of a target output voltage, and includes a controller configured to generate a first pulse at a first output voltage that is less than the target output voltage and generate a second pulse at a second output voltage that is less than the target output voltage and greater than the first output voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Alan E. LOH, Michael Bernard DRUKE, Brian GAGNE, William Conrad ALTMANN
  • Publication number: 20220215780
    Abstract: Introduced here are teaching system for realistically simulating medical situations in such a manner to test individuals as to the adequacy of their learning. A teaching system may include a manikin representative of a patient, an image projection mechanism, a simulation mechanism, a headpiece, a pair of hand coverings, a controller, a performance review mechanism, a recording device, a scenario generation mechanism, or any combination thereof. The teaching system can improve upon conventional simulation in several respects. First, the script corresponding to a simulation session may be dynamically traversed to mimic the unpredictability of an actual medical situation. Second, the action(s) of an individual may be actively monitored to discover whether her behavior complied with the relevant protocol(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Ronald W. Jimenez, Che-Chuen Ho, William Conrad Altmann
  • Patent number: 11270597
    Abstract: Introduced here are teaching system for realistically simulating medical situations in such a manner to test individuals as to the adequacy of their learning. A teaching system may include a manikin representative of a patient, an image projection mechanism, a simulation mechanism, a headpiece, a pair of hand coverings, a controller, a performance review mechanism, a recording device, a scenario generation mechanism, or any combination thereof. The teaching system can improve upon conventional simulation in several respects. First, the script corresponding to a simulation session may be dynamically traversed to mimic the unpredictability of an actual medical situation. Second, the action(s) of an individual may be actively monitored to discover whether her behavior complied with the relevant protocol(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: CodeScribe LLC
    Inventors: Ronald W. Jimenez, Che-Chuen Ho, William Conrad Altmann
  • Publication number: 20220044793
    Abstract: Introduced here are approaches for capturing and recording medical event details during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) events and other emergency medical events. A recording begins when an operator inputs a request to initiate recording. The operator may use a recording system with a combination of input devices to record medical actions. The recording system acknowledges the operator's actions by various means which may include icons displayed for the operator. The operator's interactions with the icons indicate corresponding actions observed by the operator, which are recorded as a log of the actions in temporal order that serves as a non-transient record of the medical event. An analysis of the recorded details of the medical event, by comparing the actions to prescribed actions in one or more professional standards, can provide an assessment of the actions taken.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Ronald W. Jimenez, Che-Chuen Ho, William Conrad Altmann
  • Patent number: 10051309
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to sending vertical synchronization data for a plurality of data streams in a selected data stream to perform authentication operations for the plurality of data stream. A port processor receives data streams from a plurality of transmitting devices. After receiving the data streams, the port processor selects one of the data streams for transmission to a decrypting device. The port processor extracts vertical synchronization data from the unselected data streams and inserts the extracted vertical synchronization data into the selected data stream to form a modified data stream. The port processor sends the modified data stream to a decrypting device. The decrypting device has at least one processing engine. The port processor discards the unselected data streams without sending the unselected data streams to the decrypting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Lattice Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventors: William Conrad Altmann, Hoon Choi
  • Patent number: 9654810
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to partial encryption of data stream. An embodiment of a method includes receiving, at a data transmitting device, a data stream having content including one or more of audio content, video content, and control content, determining one or more content that are to be encrypted. The method further includes partially encrypting the data stream by encrypting the one or more content, and leaving other content unencrypted, and transmitting, from the data transmitting device, the partially encrypted data stream to a data receiving device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: Lattice Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventor: William Conrad Altmann
  • Publication number: 20170094289
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are related to dynamic control of pixel color formats. In one embodiment, more than one pixel color format is used to encode a single scene within a video stream. This may be done for various reasons. For example, the available transmission bandwidth may change, thus leading to a change in the pixel color format where the new pixel color format uses a different amount of transmission bandwidth. Alternately, different regions within a scene may be encoded using different pixel color formats due to differences in their content. A highly detailed, vibrantly color region may be encoded using a richer color space and more bits per pixel, while a flat monotone region may be encoded using a pixel color format with fewer bits per pixel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventor: William Conrad Altmann
  • Publication number: 20160295221
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to sending vertical synchronization data for a plurality of data streams in a selected data stream to perform authentication operations for the plurality of data stream. A port processor receives data streams from a plurality of transmitting devices. After receiving the data streams, the port processor selects one of the data streams for transmission to a decrypting device. The port processor extracts vertical synchronization data from the unselected data streams and inserts the extracted vertical synchronization data into the selected data stream to form a modified data stream. The port processor sends the modified data stream to a decrypting device. The decrypting device has at least one processing engine. The port processor discards the unselected data streams without sending the unselected data streams to the decrypting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: William Conrad Altmann, Hoon Choi
  • Patent number: 9413985
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to combining multiple video and audio streams utilizing pixel repetition bandwidth. An embodiment of an apparatus includes a buffer to receive pixel data and a clock of a first video data stream; and a multiplexer to remove pixel repetition of a second video data stream and combine the pixel data of the first and second video data streams to generate a merged data stream, the multiplexer to alternate between the pixel data of the first and second video data streams in the merged data stream. The merged data stream includes pixel data of the first and second video data streams in a line of data, the line of data including control information identifying the pixel data of the first and second video data streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Lattice Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventor: William Conrad Altmann
  • Patent number: 9210206
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to messaging to provide data link integrity. An embodiment of a method includes transmitting a data stream over a data link from a first device to a second device, the data stream including multiple frames, the data stream being transmitted in a first mode. The method further includes determining a data transmission mode change from the first mode to a second mode for the transmission of the data stream from the first device to the second device, generating mode packets, each mode packet including fields to define a plurality of mode elements, the fields of the mode packet being set to indicate the data transmission mode change, and transmitting the mode packets to the second device prior to implementing the data transmission mode change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: Lattice Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventor: William Conrad Altmann
  • Patent number: 8964979
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to identification and handling of data streams using coded preambles. An embodiment of an apparatus includes an interface with a communication channel, transmitter coupled with the interface to transmit one or more data streams via the interface, and a processing element, the processing element to receive one or more data streams for transmission. Upon receiving multiple data streams for transmission of a first type of data, including a first data stream and a second data stream for transmission of the first type of data, the processing element is to select a first preamble for the first data stream and a second preamble for the second data stream, where the first preamble is distinguishable from the second preamble.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Silicon Image, Inc.
    Inventor: William Conrad Altmann
  • Patent number: 8930692
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to performing processing of content through partial authentication of secondary channel. An embodiment of a method includes performing a first authentication between a source transmitting device and a sink receiving device for communication of data streams, and performing a second authentication between the source transmitting device and a bridge device such that the second authentication is independent of the first authentication and the sink receiving device remains uninfluenced by the second authentication. The bridge device includes an intermediate carrier device coupled to the source transmitting device and the sink receiving device. The method further includes transmitting a data stream having encrypted content from the source transmitting device to the bridge device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Silicon Image, Inc.
    Inventor: William Conrad Altmann
  • Patent number: 8793723
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are generally directed detection of encryption utilizing error detection for received data. An embodiment of a method includes selecting a first port for foreground processing of a stream of data received at the first port, the stream of data including content data, and sampling a set of data received at a second port, the second port being not selected for foreground processing, the set of data including a data packet and error correction data. The method further includes performing background processing of the set of data, wherein the background processing includes decrypting data of the data packet and utilizing the error correction data to determine whether the data packet contains an error, and determining whether data received at the second port is encrypted based at least in part on the determination whether the data packet contains an error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Silicon Image, Inc.
    Inventor: William Conrad Altmann
  • Publication number: 20140204994
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to character data encoding in video data. An embodiment of an apparatus includes a port for connection of the apparatus to a second apparatus; and a transmitter for the transmission of video data and auxiliary data to the second apparatus, wherein the apparatus is to encode the auxiliary data into a portion of the video data and to transmit the encoded data to the second apparatus, the auxiliary data being encoded into unused bits of the portion of video data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2013
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: Silicon Image, Inc.
    Inventor: William Conrad Altmann
  • Publication number: 20140168514
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to video frame synchronization. An embodiment of a method includes receiving a first video data stream from a first source at a first port of a multi-port device, a first video frame of the first video data stream arriving at the first port at a first arrival time, and receiving a second video data stream from a second source at a second port of the multi-port device, a second video frame of the second video data stream arriving at the second port at a second arrival time. The method further includes determining an offset between the first arrival time and the second arrival time, determining one or more correction factors based at least in part on the offset, the one or more correction factors including a first correction factor for the first source, and sending a first command to the first source to modify a time of transmission by the first source of a third video frame following the first frame using the correction factor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: Silicon Image, Inc.
    Inventor: William Conrad Altmann
  • Publication number: 20140115110
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to messaging to provide data link integrity. An embodiment of a method includes transmitting a data stream over a data link from a first device to a second device, the data stream including multiple frames, the data stream being transmitted in a first mode. The method further includes determining a data transmission mode change from the first mode to a second mode for the transmission of the data stream from the first device to the second device, generating mode packets, each mode packet including fields to define a plurality of mode elements, the fields of the mode packet being set to indicate the data transmission mode change, and transmitting the mode packets to the second device prior to implementing the data transmission mode change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: Silicon Image, Inc.
    Inventor: William Conrad Altmann
  • Patent number: 8692937
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to video frame synchronization. An embodiment of a method includes receiving a first video data stream from a first source at a first port of a multi-port device, a first video frame of the first video data stream arriving at the first port at a first arrival time, and receiving a second video data stream from a second source at a second port of the multi-port device, a second video frame of the second video data stream arriving at the second port at a second arrival time. The method further includes determining an offset between the first arrival time and the second arrival time, determining one or more correction factors based at least in part on the offset, the one or more correction factors including a first correction factor for the first source, and sending a first command to the first source to modify a time of transmission by the first source of a third video frame following the first frame using the correction factor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Silicon Image, Inc.
    Inventor: William Conrad Altmann
  • Publication number: 20140071271
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to combining multiple video and audio streams utilizing pixel repetition bandwidth. An embodiment of an apparatus includes a buffer to receive pixel data and a clock of a first video data stream; and a multiplexer to remove pixel repetition of a second video data stream and combine the pixel data of the first and second video data streams to generate a merged data stream, the multiplexer to alternate between the pixel data of the first and second video data streams in the merged data stream. The merged data stream includes pixel data of the first and second video data streams in a line of data, the line of data including control information identifying the pixel data of the first and second video data streams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Publication date: March 13, 2014
    Applicant: SILICON IMAGE, INC.
    Inventor: William Conrad Altmann
  • Patent number: 8644334
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to messaging to provide data link integrity. An embodiment of a method includes transmitting a data stream over a data link from a first device to a second device, the data stream including multiple frames, the data stream being transmitted in a first mode. The method further includes determining a data transmission mode change from the first mode to a second mode for the transmission of the data stream from the first device to the second device, generating mode packets, each mode packet including fields to define a plurality of mode elements, the fields of the mode packet being set to indicate the data transmission mode change, and transmitting the mode packets to the second device prior to implementing the data transmission mode change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Silicon Image, Inc.
    Inventor: William Conrad Altmann