Patents Assigned to Intergraph Technologies Company
  • Patent number: 8793218
    Abstract: A large number of objects, such as objects representing beams and columns in an object-oriented enterprise engineering system, may be copied in a model database by partitioning the objects according to certain criteria into a number of ordered small copy groups and copying the objects in each group as an atomic operation. Objects that are to be copied are organized into the ordered groups, and the groups are copied in order, such that all predecessors of a given object are copied into the database before, or in the same small operation as, the given object. If a large copy operation abnormally terminates before all the small copy operations have been completed, the model database is, nevertheless, left in a consistent state, and the copy operation may be resumed from the point of interruption. Furthermore, the number of objects that may be copied is not constrained by the amount of memory available in the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Intergraph Technologies Company
    Inventors: Steven D. Herold, Valery Gerard
  • Patent number: 8654523
    Abstract: Illustrative embodiments of the present invention are directed to a computer that has a housing with walls that form a substantially sealed interior cavity from an exterior environment. The computer includes a plurality of computer components within the interior cavity. The computer also includes at least one heat sink for dissipating thermal energy into the exterior environment. A cooling element is thermally coupled to the heat sink and at least one of the computer components to transfer thermal energy from the computer component into the heat sink and the exterior environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Intergraph Technologies Company
    Inventors: Casey R. Adkins, Charles Allen Abare, Andrew John Ornatowski
  • Patent number: 8624709
    Abstract: A method and a system for calibrating a camera in a surveillance system. The method and system use a mathematical rotation between a first coordinate system and a second coordinate system in order to calibrate a camera with a map of an area. In some embodiments, the calibration can be used to control the camera and/or to display a view cone on the map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Intergraph Technologies Company
    Inventors: Andrew D. Estes, Johnny E. Frederick
  • Patent number: 8525827
    Abstract: An integrated GIS system in which a 3D visualization system is integrated with a 2D GIS system using interfaces that map 2D components for 3D visualization and map 3D components for processing by the 2D GIS system. A 2D GIS system and a 3D visualization system are integrated through interfaces that provide for 3D visualization of 2.5D GIS data as well as interactive control of the 2D GIS system from 3D windows containing 3D renderings produced by the 3D visualization system. User selections made in a 3D window are mapped to 2D geo-location coordinates for to use by the 2D GIS system components. Changes made via the 3D window to 3D graphic indicia and/or metadata are used to modify GIS data in a GIS database, and the modified GIS data is used to update the 3D rendering to reflect the user changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2013
    Assignee: Intergraph Technologies Company
    Inventors: Michael Rodney Boersma, James Richard Stephens, David Milton Glenn
  • Patent number: 8193909
    Abstract: A method and a system for calibrating a camera in a surveillance system. The method and system use a mathematical rotation between a first coordinate system and a second coordinate system in order to calibrate a camera with a map of an area. In some embodiments, the calibration can be used to control the camera and/or to display a view cone on the map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Intergraph Technologies Company
    Inventors: Andrew D. Estes, Johnny E. Frederick
  • Patent number: 8189690
    Abstract: A system to parse both telemetry data and corresponding encoded video data wherein the telemetry and video data are subsequently synchronized based upon temporal information, such as a time stamp. The telemetry data and the video data are originally unsynchronized and the data for each is acquired by a separate device. The acquiring devices may be located within or attached to an aerial vehicle. The system receives the telemetry data and the encoded video data and outputs a series of synchronized video images with telemetry data. Thus, telemetry information is associated with each video image. The telemetry data may be acquired at a different rate than the video data. As a result, telemetry data may be interpolated or extrapolated to correspond to each video image. The present system operates in real-time, thus data acquired from aerial vehicles can be displayed on a map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Intergraph Technologies Company
    Inventors: Sheila G. Whitaker, Gene A. Grindstaff, Roger K. Shelton, William D. Howell
  • Patent number: 7859569
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for stabilizing image frames in a video data stream. A weighted average or centroid of the intensity or hue associated with pixels vs. the horizontal and vertical position of each pixel is calculated for a reference frame in the video data stream. A corresponding centroid is calculated for a subsequent frame in the stream. This image frame is then translated so that the centroid of the subsequent frame and the centroid of the reference frame coincide, reducing artifacts from shaking of the video capture device. Alternatively, the video stream frames may be divided into tiles and centroids calculated for each tile. The centroids of the tiles of a subsequent frame are curve fit to the centroids of tiles in a reference frame. An affine transform is then performed on the subsequent frame to reduce artifacts in the image from movements of the video capture device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: Intergraph Technologies Company
    Inventors: Gene A. Grindstaff, Sheila G. Whitaker
  • Patent number: 7769614
    Abstract: Systems and methods for the collaborative design, construction, and maintenance of fluid processing plants are provided. A collaborative commerce application may provide project management utilities, visualization utilities, dynamic pricing utilities, material procurement utilities, and certification utilities. These features may be integrated seamlessly into the collaborative commerce application. Communication among project team members in the design and construction of fluid processing plants may be made more efficient by providing automatic notifications via the collaborative commerce application. Version control may be used to ensure project team members are working with the latest designs and revisions. Access controls and other security features may be used to prevent confidential data from being disseminated unnecessarily.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Intergraph Technologies Company
    Inventors: John C. Eichstaedt, Benedict A. Eazzetta, Robert L. Mullenger, Shawn A. Wentz, Hans T. Erickson
  • Patent number: 7715590
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and method of detecting polarized identification indicia in real-time. A frame of image data is provided having a plurality of pixels, wherein each pixel includes polarized light intensity information. An intensity value is determined for each of the pixels from the polarized light intensity information. A first portion of the pixels having intensity values within an intensity range is selected. The pixels in the first portion having similar angle of linear polarization values within a tolerance range are analyzed, thereby detecting the polarized identification indicia in the image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Intergraph Technologies Company
    Inventor: Sheila G. Whitaker
  • Patent number: 7668402
    Abstract: A method for generating a composite image includes receiving a separate image into a computer system, comparing the separate image to the composite image so as to generate a mismatch value, and modifying at least one of the composite image and the separate image to reduce the mismatch value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: Intergraph Technologies Company
    Inventors: Gene A. Grindstaff, Sheila G. Whitaker
  • Patent number: 7618009
    Abstract: An apparatus for attachment of a unit to attachment devices in a vehicle, in particular an aircraft, has attachment elements which are provided for connection to the attachment devices. In this case, at least one attachment adapter is provided, and can be connected on the one hand to the unit to be attached and on the other hand by means of the attachment elements to at least one attachment device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2009
    Assignee: Intergraph Technologies Company
    Inventor: Gerd Glockler