Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Michael Blaine Brooks
  • Patent number: 8346959
    Abstract: A client determines the transmission of a data stream from a server and transmits to the server a Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) header having either RTSP Speed or both RTSP Scale and RTSP Speed values where the values are formed based at least on the determined transmission rate of the data stream received by the client and a reference data stream rate. An RTSP server responsive to the Speed value or the Speed and Scale value may adjust properties of the data stream being transmitted in response to the RTSP header values sent by the client.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Sachin G. Deshpande
  • Patent number: 8340957
    Abstract: Computer implemented methods, computing devices, and computing systems, wherein relationships of words or phrases within a textual corpus are assessed via frequencies of occurrence of particular words or phrases and via frequencies of co-occurrence of particular pairs of words or phrases within defined tracts of text from within the textual corpus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Waggener Edstrom Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Gerard Gallagher, Jia Lin, Marc Stoffregen
  • Patent number: 8339663
    Abstract: Machine-enabled methods of, and devices and systems for, encoding color bitmap data as indexed red-green-blue (RGB) data for printing and optional multi-functional peripheral (MFP) device raster image processor (RIP) bypass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: James E. Owen
  • Patent number: 8328563
    Abstract: System, methods, and apparatuses produce simulated human physiological waveforms such as electrocardiograph (ECG) and blood pressure signals where the microcontroller and/or digital-to-analog converters may be switched to a lower power-consuming state by programmable instructions and switched on in response to a programmable sleep timer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Pronk Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Karl Ruiter
  • Patent number: 8330768
    Abstract: The method, system and apparatus embodiments of the present invention provide for rendering original images having high dynamic range into display images having lower dynamic range while retaining a visual quality of rendered images comparable to the original or reference images. Tone-mapping parameters are applied to the display images and are iteratively adjusted in order to reduce the differences between the conditioned original image and the conditioned display image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Rafal Mantiuk, Scott James Daly
  • Patent number: 8323571
    Abstract: Method and system embodiments of the present invention control the ascorbate concentration in produce treatments and particularly are exemplified in fresh cut fruit and vegetable treatments via measured refractivity and/or electrical conductivity of, and/or calcium ions present in, the treatment solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Primordial Diagnostics Inc, DEA Pulse Instruments
    Inventor: Karan Khurana
  • Patent number: 8320694
    Abstract: Machine-enabled methods of, and system, and processor readable media, embodiments for, tone quantization error diffusion, comprising a first stage process and a second stage process, where the quantization and error diffusion steps may be completed for lines scanned according to the first stage, and the quantized pixels may be tested to determine the actual output halftone pattern of the pixels. The quantized pixels may be tested to determine their actual output halftone pattern and threshold levels may be determined by measuring dot intensities for the output device, e.g., a multi-functional peripheral device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Ching-Wei Chang
  • Patent number: 8320604
    Abstract: Composite loudspeaker cones that include an interstitial layer of material having a core density below 600 kg/m3 and a Young's modulus greater than 0.2 GPa, such as balsa wood, interposed between a first carbon fiber layer and a second carbon fiber layer and method of making same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Inventors: Richard Vandersteen, Michael P. Latvis, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8299754
    Abstract: A charging system detachably drawing from a power source comprising: (a) an electrical output configuration; (b) an electrical input configuration; and (c) an energy store configuration; and methods of provisioning the energy store, the charging system, and electric vehicle charger devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: Aerovironment, Inc.
    Inventors: Larry Hayashigawa, Tim Conver, Tyler MacCready, Thomas Zambrano, Kent Steven West
  • Patent number: 8274705
    Abstract: Machine-enabled methods of, and system, and processor readable media, embodiments for, tone quantization error diffusion comprising a first stage process and a second stage process. where pre-calibrated index tables may be applied by which quantized pixels may be expressed according to halftones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Ching-Wei Chang
  • Patent number: 8271266
    Abstract: Computer implemented methods and computing systems wherein relationships of words or phrases within a textual corpus are assessed via frequencies of occurrence of particular words or phrases and via frequencies of co-occurrence of particular pairs of words or phrases within defined tracts of text from within the textual corpus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Waggner Edstrom Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Gerard Gallagher, Jia Lin, Marc Stoffregen
  • Patent number: 8243789
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for: authorizing the transmission of audiovisual data based on an iterative changing bit budget, where the bit budget may be based on a value of a total size of the set of Network Abstraction Layer units and a value of an initial size of the group of frames; and determining a bit budget remainder and an adjusted bit budget remainder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Mehmet Umut Demircin, Petrus J. L. van Beek, Sachin G. Deshpande
  • Patent number: 8233536
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for predicting image elements, comprising scaling a received low dynamic range (LDR) image element value for an image element via a binary shift operation, where the binary shift operation is based on a received prediction shift value, and combining, via a received additive operation, the scaled LDR image element value with the received LDR image element value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher A. Segall
  • Patent number: 8213500
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for image noise characterization, parameterization, removal, reconstruction and/or re-combination with a denoised image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Byung Tae Oh, Shawmin Lei
  • Patent number: 8210471
    Abstract: Heavier-than-air, aircraft having flapping wings, e.g., ornithopters, where angular orientation control is effected by variable differential sweep angles of deflection of the flappable wings in the course of sweep angles of travel and/or the control of variable wing membrane tension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Aerovironment, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Todd Keennon, Karl Robert Klingebiel, Alexander Andryukov, Bart Dean Hibbs
  • Patent number: 8205823
    Abstract: Heavier-than-air, aircraft having flapping wings, e.g., ornithopters, where angular orientation control is effected by variable differential sweep angles of deflection of the flappable wings in the course of sweep angles of travel and/or the control of variable wing membrane tension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Aerovironment, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Todd Keennon, Karl Robert Klingebiel, Alexander Andryukov, Bart Dean Hibbs, John Peter Zwaan
  • Patent number: 8203313
    Abstract: Methods and devices for connecting a current source to a target storage device via a transmission cable extendable and/or retractable via a conduit that may be repositioned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: Aerovironment, Inc.
    Inventor: Albert Joseph Flack
  • Patent number: 8197572
    Abstract: A concentrated, homogenous, stable, water-soluble fertilizer suspension comprising: water-soluble mineral nutrients of at least nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium, calcium, and magnesium; and an organic stabilizing additive; and wherein the pourable, aqueous suspension has water-soluble mineral nutrients amounting to at least about 80 percent by weight (wt. %) of the suspension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Lawrence Brooke Engineerings, LLC.
    Inventor: Geoffrey Dylan Wells
  • Patent number: 8153945
    Abstract: A system (100) for directing incident sun light to a receiver (150) based on an integral imager (116) is disclosed. The system includes an imager (116) mounted to a reflector (112); a tracking controller (226) coupled to the imager; and one or more actuators (114) connected to the reflector and tracking controller. The tracking controller (226) is configured to receive and process image data from the imager (116); determine angular positions of a radiation source and target relative to the mirror normal vector (N) based on the image data; and orient the reflector with the axis bisecting the angular positions of the sun and receiver (150). When the optical axis of the imager is precisely aligned with the vector normal to the reflector, the source and target will be detected as antipodal spots (320, 330) with respect to the center of the imager's field of view, which may be used to effectively track the sun or like object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Esolar, Inc
    Inventors: Kevin Hickerson, Dan Reznik
  • Patent number: D670066
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Princeton Vanguard LLC
    Inventors: Warren Wilson, Sara Wilson