Patents Assigned to TECHNOLOGIES INC.
  • Collaboration of device resources
    Patent number: 9037737
    Abstract: Computing devices can collaborate in order to take advantage of various components distributed across those devices. In various embodiments, image information captured by multiple devices can be used to identify and determine the relative locations of various persons and objects near those devices, even when not every device can view those persons or objects. In some embodiments, one or more audio or video capture elements can be selected based on their proximity and orientation to an object to be captured. In some embodiments, the information captured from the various audio and/or video elements can be combined to provide three-dimensional imaging, surround sound, and other such capture data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kenneth Mark Karakotsios, Isaac Scott Noble
  • Non-volatile storage with broken word line screen and data recovery
    Patent number: 9036416
    Abstract: Data, normally read using a page-by page read process, can be recovered from memory cells connected to a broken word line by performing a sequential read process. To determine whether a word line is broken, both a page-by page read process and a sequential read process are performed. The results of both read processes are compared. If the number of mismatches between the two read processes is greater than a threshold, it is concluded that there is a broken word line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Nima Mokhlesi, Lanlan Gu, Ashish Pal Singh Ghai, Deepak Raghu
  • Dynamic control system for managing redirection of requests for content
    Patent number: 9037484
    Abstract: Requests for content are received, for example, an HTTP request for a web page is received. Each request has a landing context, which may include information about the user sending the request, the request itself, the referrer, or another subject. This information can be found in the requests or external to the requests. The information of the landing context is compared to appropriate triggering criteria. For requests that satisfy the appropriate triggering criteria, a destination is provided based on one or more weighted treatments. The request is directed to the provided destination. The results of the requests are subsequently analyzed and used to adjust the treatments in an automated fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Kenfield Walters, Michael R. Brauwerman, Avram Finkel, Stephan G. Betz
  • Image forming apparatus communicable with remote display apparatus
    Patent number: 9036176
    Abstract: An MFP (Multifunction Peripheral) receives, from a remote terminal, information on a first operation to request the MFP to execute processing. The MFP transmits, to the remote terminal, information on a screen in accordance with the information on the first operation, and receives, from the remote terminal, a report that a screen in accordance with the transmitted information is displayed on the remote terminal. The MFP receives, from the remote terminal, information on a second operation to request the MFP to execute processing, after receipt of the information on the first operation and before receipt of the report, and decides whether to execute or cancel the processing in accordance with the information on the second operation, depending on the type of the information on the second operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Iwamoto, Kenichi Sawada, Takatsugu Kuno, Koichi Amiya, Yusaku Tanaka, Hiroshi Murakami
  • Method and system for determining position of an inertial computing device in a distributed network
    Patent number: 9037407
    Abstract: A system for retrieving information about a position of an inertial computing device (ICD) for use in an application, which includes a network of local positioning docks (PDs), each capable of docking an ICD by restricting three dimensions of a physical position of the ICD near one of the PDs; a database capable of storing information about the positions of the PDs within the network; a calculator capable of determining, based on a position of a positioning dock (PD), the position of the ICD; and an application programming interface (API) connected to the database and capable of outputting the position of a PD to the ICD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: PALANTIR TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventor: James Thompson
  • Multi-mode optical measurement device and method of operation
    Patent number: 9036134
    Abstract: An optical measurement device is provided includes a tracker device configured to emit a first beam of light and receive a portion of the first beam of light reflected off of a target. The first beam of light being emitted from a gimbal location, the tracker device further including an absolute distance meter configured to determine the distance to the target. A scanner device is provided that is configured to emit a second beam of light along a pathway without reversing direction and receive a portion of the second beam of light reflected off an object. The second beam of light being emitted from the gimbal location, the scanner further being configured to determine the distance to the object based at least in part on the speed of light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: FARO TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kenneth Steffey, Robert E. Bridges, David H. Parker
  • Image forming apparatus storing a stylus pen
    Patent number: 9036168
    Abstract: Disclosed is an image forming apparatus provided with an operation panel receiving instructions from a user by touch operations, a stylus pen used to perform the touch operations, and a pen holder holding the stylus pen, the pen holder including an opening for insertion of the stylus pen from outside of the pen holder, and a storage section storing the stylus pen. The storage section includes a first hollow portion with a first bottom and a second hollow portion with a second bottom lower than the first bottom. The stylus pen is stored in the storage section by being inserted through the opening, proceeding along the first bottom to enter the second hollow portion, and slanting, upon a center of gravity of the stylus pen passing a boundary between the first bottom and the second bottom, so that a tip of the stylus pen points downwards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Satomi Uchida
  • Providing user input to a computing device with an eye closure
    Patent number: 9035874
    Abstract: Various embodiments enable additional content or features to be displayed to a user in response to detecting one eye of the user being closed either as a wink or for a duration of time. In one example, the additional content is graphical overlay, such as a menu containing selectable graphical elements to perform functions related to an application, game, or content, of global navigational features of the computing device in general, or to alternate views, features, or supplemental content for an application or game currently being displayed on a computing device. In one example, the overlay may be displayed only as long as the user keeps one eye closed or, alternatively, the user could wink to display the overlay and provide some other input to remove the overlay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Timothy Lee Fowers, William Allan Dugan, Ion Hardie, Isaac Jeremy Shepard, Brian David Fisher, Robert Gustave Schiewe
  • Image forming apparatus and method for driving and controlling fans in the apparatus
    Patent number: 9037033
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of fans, a drive part and a controller. The drive part drives each of the fans. The controller controls the drive part in such a way that while the apparatus is operated, a part of the plurality of fans are stopped and the fan to be stopped is changed and the amount of change in a noise level of all the fans before and after the change of the fan to be stopped is limited to within a specified range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Yoshinori Ohno
  • Image forming apparatus having exhaust treatment system
    Patent number: 9037034
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus having; a fusing unit that heats and presses a recording medium with an image transferred thereto, thereby fixing the image thereon; a first duct section in which air that contains emissions generated by the fusing unit flows; an ion generation unit provided away from the first duct section to generate ions; a second duct section in which air that contains the ions generated by the ion generation unit flows; a third duct section connected to the first and second duct sections, such that air flows in from the first and second duct sections, whereby the emissions are charged by the ions; a filter unit provided in the third duct section to trap the charged emissions; and a blowing unit that generates air flows from the connections with the first and second duct sections in the third duct section toward the filter unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Tomofumi Ikeda, Shoichi Yoshikawa, Kuniya Matsuura, Masayuki Satou, Ryo Oshima, Noboru Oomoto
  • Electrochromic multi-layer devices with spatially coordinated switching
    Patent number: 9036242
    Abstract: A multi-layer device comprising a first substrate and a first electrically conductive layer on a surface thereof, the first electrically conductive layer having a sheet resistance to the flow of electrical current through the first electrically conductive layer that varies as a function of position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: KINESTRAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Howard S. Bergh, John Bass, Jonathan Ziebarth, Nicolas Timmerman, Zachariah Hogan, Karin Yaccato, Howard Turner
  • Secondary mappings to enable code changes without schema updates
    Patent number: 9037614
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for using secondary mappings in an Object Relational Mapping (ORM) system to enable source code changes to be implemented and carried out without requiring updates to the database schema. In order to use secondary mappings, one or more attributes of an object in the ORM system are annotated to indicate that they are secondary mapped attributes. The annotation can indicate to the ORM system that the various operations (e.g. read operations, write operations) referencing attributes of the object may need to be remapped if the column for the attribute being referenced does not actually exist in the database. For example, if no column is directly mapped to the attribute being referenced, the ORM system can remap the operation to point to a secondary data structure (e.g. a map stored in-memory) that will be used to store the value for that attribute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: David J. Parrott
  • Human body sensing device and image forming apparatus having the same
    Patent number: 9035257
    Abstract: A human body sensing device comprises: an infrared sensor which detects a human body; a rotatable group of lenses having a plurality of lenses arranged around the sensor, the lenses being configured to: generate unit sensing zones defined by a sensing distance extending radially outwardly from the group and a small width extending in a rotation direction of the group; and form a plurality of alternating layers of a regional sensing zone including one or more than one of the unit sensing zones and a non-sensing zone not including any of the unit sensing zones, in a rotation direction of the group; a rotary drive which rotates the group; a rotation position sensor which detects a rotation position of the group; and a recognizer which recognizes the location and/or movement of a human body based on the output level indicated by the infrared sensor and the rotation position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Kosuke Masumoto, Shiro Umeda, Toshiaki Tanaka
  • Cloud-based image improvement
    Patent number: 9036943
    Abstract: Approaches are described for managing the processing of image or video data captured by a portable computing device. The device provides a set of images to a remote server executing “in the cloud”. The set of images can include a reference image and at least one other image captured subsequent or prior to the reference. Upon receiving the set of images at the remote server operating, the remote server can process the images to determine a similarity between the reference image and each of the other images. Thereafter, each image having a similarity value above a similarity value threshold can be aligned with the reference image, and the pixel values for corresponding locations in each of the images can be combined to create a processed image. The processed images can be provided to the computing device from the remote server, where the user can decide to accept or discard the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Leo Benedict Baldwin
  • Probe card and method for testing magnetic sensors
    Patent number: 9035671
    Abstract: A probe card and method are provided for testing magnetic sensors at the wafer level. The probe card has one or more probe tips having a first pair of solenoid coils in parallel configuration on first opposed sides of each probe tip to supply a magnetic field in a first (X) direction, a second pair of solenoid coils in parallel configuration on second opposed sides of each probe tip to supply a magnetic field in a second (Y) direction orthogonal to the first direction, and an optional third solenoid coil enclosing or inscribing the first and second pair to supply a magnetic field in a third direction (Z) orthogonal to both the first and second directions. The first pair, second pair, and third coil are each symmetrical with a point on the probe tip array, the point being aligned with and positioned close to a magnetic sensor during test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: EVERSPIN TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Lianjun Liu, Phillip Mather
  • Aryl ketone compounds and compositions for delivering active agents
    Patent number: 9035085
    Abstract: The present invention provides aryl ketone compounds and compositions containing them which facilitate the delivery of active agents. The aryl ketone compounds have the formula or a salt thereof, where n=1 to 9, and R1 to R5 are independently hydrogen, C1 to C4 alkyl, C1 to C4 alkoxy, C2 to C4 alkenyl, halogen, hydroxyl, —NH—C(O)—CH3, or —O—C6H5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: EMISPHERE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Parshuram Rath, Maria Isabel Gomez-Orellana
  • Systems and methods for error checking and correcting for memory module
    Patent number: 9037941
    Abstract: Methods for error checking and correcting (ECC) in a memory module including at least one memory unit are provided. The method includes the steps of: receiving input data from the memory unit; performing, by a first ECC module, a first ECC operation to the input data and generating a decoding result which indicates whether decoding was successful; and determining whether to activate a second ECC module to perform a second ECC operation to the input data according to the decoding result, wherein the first and second ECC modules respectively utilize a first method and a second method, wherein the first method applies a ECC with a first fault tolerant quantity for error correction and the second method applies a ECC with a second fault tolerant quantity for error correction, and the second fault tolerant quantity is larger than the first fault tolerant quantity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: VIA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Yiming Dong, Ji Zhong, Li Shen, Wei Wang
  • System for optimization of input/output from a storage array
    Patent number: 9037826
    Abstract: A system and method for optimizing the performance of one or more disks in a storage array in response to access requests by other computer devices and processes across a network. For requests to access to the storage disk from the network, such as a read/write request, a response monitor notes the service time for each access requests by the storage disk, and if the performance in handling the access requests fails to meet, at least, a predetermined time threshold, actions can be taken to migrate data, modify accesses permitted to the disk, or otherwise indicate underperformance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Marc J. Brooker, Tate Andrew Certain, Roland Paterson-Jones
  • Partial block erase for a three dimensional (3D) memory
    Patent number: 9036428
    Abstract: A method includes, at a non-volatile memory having a three dimensional (3D) memory configuration, performing an erase operation. Performing the erase operation includes providing a first control signal to isolate a first portion of a string of the non-volatile memory from a second portion of the string. Performing the erase operation further includes providing a first erase signal to erase the second portion of the string while data is maintained at the first portion of the string.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventor: Manuel Antonio D'Abreu
  • SPECIMEN RADIOGRAPHY WITH TOMOSYNTHESIS IN A CABINET
    Publication number: 20150131778
    Abstract: A method and system for producing tomosynthesis images of a breast specimen in a cabinet x-ray system. An X-ray source delivers X-rays through a specimen of excised tissue and forms an image at a digital X-ray detector. Multiple X-ray images are taken as the X-ray source moves relative to the stationary breast specimen. In the preferred embodiment, the X-ray source moves in a range from about 350° to and including about 10°. The source may travel substantially along a path that generally defines an arc, or linearly, while the detector remains stationary throughout and the source remains substantially equidistant from the specimen platform. The set of X-ray image data taken at the different points are combined to form a tomosynthesis image that can be viewed in different formats, alone or as an adjunct to conventional specimen radiography.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: KUB TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Chester LOWE, Vikram BUTANI, Tim ELY