Patents Assigned to Next Future, LLC
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Publication number: 20160086034Abstract: A method and apparatus to read an analog dial utility meter including a plurality of analog dials, where each dial includes a rotating dial indicator is provided. The apparatus is configured to analyze a digital image of the analog dial utility meter to determine a value of each dial of the utility meter. The method comprises receiving a digital image of the analog dial utility meter, and performing one or more processing and analysis steps to determine a meter reading of the utility meter.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2015Publication date: March 24, 2016Applicant: Next Future, LLCInventors: James L. KENNEDY, Thomas BAIRD
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Publication number: 20140286580Abstract: A method and apparatus to read an analog dial utility meter including a plurality of analog dials, where each dial includes a rotating dial indicator is provided. The apparatus is configured to analyze a digital image of the analog dial utility meter to determine a value of each dial of the utility meter. The method comprises receiving a digital image of the analog dial utility meter, and performing one or more processing and analysis steps to determine a meter reading of the utility meter.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2014Publication date: September 25, 2014Applicant: NEXT FUTURE, LLCInventors: James L. KENNEDY, Thomas BAIRD
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Patent number: 8786706Abstract: A method and apparatus to read an analog dial utility meter including a plurality of analog dials, where each dial includes a rotating dial indicator is provided. The apparatus is configured to analyze a digital image of the analog dial utility meter to determine a value of each dial of the utility meter. The method comprises receiving a digital image of the analog dial utility meter, and performing one or more processing and analysis steps to determine a meter reading of the utility meter.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2011Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Next Future, LLCInventors: James L. Kennedy, Thomas Baird
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Patent number: 8662006Abstract: An after-market dishwasher stats indicator has a housing and an indicator member slidable therein. The housing has left and right end openings and a rear aspect or wall to be held at the dishwasher door front and a top wall extending obliquely therefrom with a viewing window such that indicia on the indicator member is viewable through the viewing window by a user standing astride the dishwasher. The member has first and second different indicia thereon, one indicative of a clean status of the dishwasher and the other indicative of a dirty or ready to be loaded status of the dishwasher. The different indicia are separately viewable through the viewing window depending on the position of the member, such that when the rear aspect is held to the dishwasher door front, the selected indicia is viewable to a user standing astride the dishwasher door front.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2012Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Next Future, LLCInventors: Charles R. Patzer, James L. Kennedy, Ellen M. Brown
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Publication number: 20140041573Abstract: An after-market dishwasher stats indicator has a housing and an indicator member slidable therein. The housing has left and right end openings and a rear aspect or wall to be held at the dishwasher door front and a top wall extending obliquely therefrom with a viewing window such that indicia on the indicator member is viewable through the viewing window by a user standing astride the dishwasher. The member has first and second different indicia thereon, one indicative of a clean status of the dishwasher and the other indicative of a dirty or ready to be loaded status of the dishwasher. The different indicia are separately viewable through the viewing window depending on the position of the member, such that when the rear aspect is held to the dishwasher door front, the selected indicia is viewable to a user standing astride the dishwasher door front.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2012Publication date: February 13, 2014Applicant: NEXT FUTURE, LLCInventors: Charles R. Patzer, James L. Kennedy, Ellen M. Brown
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Publication number: 20130050498Abstract: A method and apparatus to read an analog dial utility meter including a plurality of analog dials, where each dial includes a rotating dial indicator is provided. The apparatus is configured to analyze a digital image of the analog dial utility meter to determine a value of each dial of the utility meter. The method comprises receiving a digital image of the analog dial utility meter, and performing one or more processing and analysis steps to determine a meter reading of the utility meter.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2011Publication date: February 28, 2013Applicant: NEXT FUTURE, LLCInventors: James L. Kennedy, Thomas Baird
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Patent number: D664387Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2011Date of Patent: July 31, 2012Assignee: Next Future, LLCInventor: James Kennedy
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Patent number: D701914Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2012Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: Next Future, LLCInventors: Charles R. Patzer, James L. Kennedy, Ellen M. Brown