Patents Assigned to Viewpoint AS
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Patent number: 11803791Abstract: An electronic construction collaboration system for managing a construction project is provided. The electronic construction collaboration system includes an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) sub-system including a contract engine configured to generate at least one project contract including a contract data set and ERP metadata corresponding to Building Information Modeling (BIM) metadata included in a structural object of a construction project model in a BIM sub-system and an interconnection engine configured to associatively link the ERP metadata and the BIM metadata and send the contract data set to the BIM sub-system in response to associatively linking the ERP metadata and the BIM metadata.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2021Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: VIEWPOINT, INC.Inventors: Matthew Thomas Harris, Robert Wilson Humphreys, Lloyd Pickering, Richard Stokoe, Andrew Burden, Andrew Thomson, Andrew Ward, Laurence Skoropinski
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Publication number: 20230252653Abstract: A method for detecting moving objects within a certain zone that includes initially providing multiple physical cameras around the zone and composing a panoramic video stream using the cameras. Upon composing the panoramic video stream, one or more virtual camera views are defined by selecting corresponding partial views of the panoramic views and by de-warping the selected, partial views into square views. Each de-warped view is fed into a deep learning neural network and then a corresponding part of the zone is detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2021Publication date: August 10, 2023Applicant: MOBILE VIEWPOINT B.V.Inventors: Michael Stuurman, Michel Alexander BAIS
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Patent number: 11523593Abstract: A pen system is for farming aquatic organisms. The pen system has an outer surrounding rigid structure and an internal, closed enclosure. The outer surrounding rigid structure forms an upper portion and a lower portion. The pen system further has: an internal surrounding connecting element, the closed enclosure being attached to the connecting element; and a heave-compensation system having a plurality of fluid-filled cylinders, each fluid-filled cylinder being hingedly attached, in a first end portion, to the connecting element, and being hingedly attached, in a second end portion, to the inside of the rigid structure.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2018Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Viewpoint ASInventors: Kåre Olav Krogenes, Kjartan Gilje
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Patent number: 11263364Abstract: A method for operating a building information modeling (BIM) system, is provided. The method includes at a BIM server, receiving a data alteration request from a client computing device for altering data in one of a building model, a hierarchical structure of building model data, and a Construction Operations Building Information Exchange (COBie) spreadsheet, the building model, hierarchical structure of building model data, and COBie spreadsheet simultaneously displayed in a GUI generated by the BIM server, automatically determining validity of data in the data alteration request, and if it is determined that the data is valid, permitting the data alteration request based on predetermined permissions of the client computing device.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2021Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Viewpoint, Inc.Inventors: Laurence Skoropinski, Lloyd Pickering, Richard Stokoe
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Patent number: 11200522Abstract: An electronic construction collaboration system for managing a construction project is provided. The electronic construction collaboration system includes an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) sub-system including a contract engine configured to generate at least one project contract including a contract data set and ERP metadata corresponding to Building Information Modeling (BIM) metadata included in a structural object of a construction project model in a BIM sub-system and an interconnection engine configured to associatively link the ERP metadata and the BIM metadata and send the contract data set to the BIM sub-system in response to associatively linking the ERP metadata and the BIM metadata.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2017Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: Viewpoint, Inc.Inventors: Matthew Thomas Harris, Robert Wilson Humphreys, Lloyd Pickering, Richard Stokoe, Andrew Burden, Andrew Thomson, Andrew Ward, Laurence Skoropinski
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Patent number: 11013218Abstract: A sea-pen arrangement is for farming fish. The sea-pen arrangement has a service unit with a plurality of shafts projecting downwards and a pontoon at their lower portions. The shafts define an inner area. A net forms a closed enclosure. The sea-pen arrangement further includes at least one sea pen positioned in an outer area on the outside of two shafts. A frame structure has an upper frame with a first fastening portion and a second fastening portion, a bottom frame, and a fence fastened to the upper frame and the bottom frame. The frame structure is fastened to the service unit at the fastening portions, and the frame structure surrounds the at least one sea pen in the outer area.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2017Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: Viewpoint ASInventors: Kåre Olav Krogenes, Kjartan Gilje
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Publication number: 20210112785Abstract: A pen system is for farming aquatic organisms. The pen system has an outer surrounding rigid structure and an internal, closed enclosure. The outer surrounding rigid structure forms an upper portion and a lower portion. The pen system further has: an internal surrounding connecting element, the closed enclosure being attached to the connecting element; and a heave-compensation system having a plurality of fluid-filled cylinders, each fluid-filled cylinder being hingedly attached, in a first end portion, to the connecting element, and being hingedly attached, in a second end portion, to the inside of the rigid structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2018Publication date: April 22, 2021Applicant: Viewpoint ASInventors: Kåre Olav Krogenes, Kjartan Gilje
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Patent number: 10915671Abstract: A method for operating a building information modeling (BIM) system, is provided. The method includes at a BIM server, receiving a data alteration request from a client computing device for altering data in one of a building model, a hierarchical structure of building model data, and a Construction Operations Building Information Exchange (COBie) spreadsheet, the building model, hierarchical structure of building model data, and COBie spreadsheet simultaneously displayed in a GUI generated by the BIM server, automatically determining validity of data in the data alteration request, and if it is determined that the data is valid, permitting the data alteration request based on predetermined permissions of the client computing device.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: VIEWPOINT, INC.Inventors: Laurence Skoropinski, Lloyd Pickering, Richard Stokoe
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Patent number: 10892699Abstract: An inverse-movement-type voice coil actuating apparatus includes a case structure, a stationary lens module, and a movable image sensing and focusing assembly. The case structure has a case. The lens module is assembled in the case to define an optical axis. The image sensing and focusing assembly is received in the case and moves back and forth along the optical axis with respect to the lens module to focus. Thus, the path of the back-and-forth movement of the image sensing and focusing assembly can be ensured to remain consistent with the optical axis and the lens can be pre-screwed without dropping the dust during the assembly process to further increase the production yield.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2017Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: VIEWPOINT ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Masafumi Mizukami, Chih-Chien Hsu, Yu-Chung Lee
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Patent number: 10474765Abstract: A method for operating a building information modeling (BIM) system, is provided. The method includes at a BIM server, receiving a data alteration request from a client computing device for altering data in one of a building model, a hierarchical structure of building model data, and a Construction Operations Building Information Exchange (COBie) spreadsheet, the building model, hierarchical structure of building model data, and COBie spreadsheet simultaneously displayed in a GUI generated by the BIM server, automatically determining validity of data in the data alteration request, and if it is determined that the data is valid, permitting the data alteration request based on predetermined permissions of the client computing device.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2014Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: Viewpoint, Inc.Inventors: Laurence Skoropinski, Lloyd Pickering, Richard Stokoe
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Patent number: 10429283Abstract: The invention relates generally to a mechanical device that efficiently measures physical parameters such as compression strength, elasticity, firmness, deformation resistance and the like, on one or a plurality of compressible test objects including fruits, nuts and vegetables, and which operates in a semi-automatic fashion using a rotatable turntable with multiple wells to hold a plurality of test objects in place during measurement using one or more positionable sensors capable of measuring a physical parameter when brought into contact with the test object.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2017Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: CREATIVE VIEWPOINT MACHINERYInventor: Robert E. Switek, Jr.
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Publication number: 20190150409Abstract: A sea-pen arrangement is for farming fish. The sea-pen arrangement has a service unit with a plurality of shafts projecting downwards and a pontoon at their lower portions. The shafts define an inner area. A net forms a closed enclosure. The sea-pen arrangement further includes at least one sea pen positioned in an outer area on the outside of two shafts. A frame structure has an upper frame with a first fastening portion and a second fastening portion, a bottom frame, and a fence fastened to the upper frame and the bottom frame. The frame structure is fastened to the service unit at the fastening portions, and the frame structure surrounds the at least one sea pen in the outer area.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2017Publication date: May 23, 2019Applicant: Viewpoint ASInventors: Kåre Olav Krogenes, Kjartan Gilje
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Patent number: 10152564Abstract: A method for operating a BIM system is provided. The method includes at a BIM server, generating a network accessible graphical user interface (GUI) simultaneously displaying a 3-dimensional rendering of a building model, a hierarchical structure of building model data, and a Construction Operations Building Information Exchange (COBie) spreadsheet, the building model, hierarchical structure of building model data, and a COBie spreadsheet being associatively linked.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2014Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Viewpoint, Inc.Inventors: Lloyd Pickering, Andrew Thomson, Andrew Burden
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Publication number: 20180209882Abstract: The invention relates generally to a mechanical device that efficiently measures physical parameters such as compression strength, elasticity, firmness, deformation resistance and the like, on one or a plurality of compressible test objects including fruits, nuts and vegetables, and which operates in a semi-automatic fashion using an indexable turntable linked to one or a plurality of measuring stations capable of independently measuring said physical parameters, employing a controlled gravity assisted test assembly as a means for applying a steady, continuous gravitational force to said compressible test objects while recording said parameters by means of one or a plurality of sensor elements associated with said measuring stations.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2017Publication date: July 26, 2018Applicant: CREATIVE VIEWPOINT MACHINERY, INC.Inventor: ROBERT E. SWITEK, JR.
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Patent number: 9679089Abstract: A method for operating a building information modeling (BIM) system is provided. The method includes at a BIM server, in response to receiving a save tri-dimensional data command from a client computing device, associatively mapping identification data in each of a building model, a hierarchical structure of building model data, and a Construction Operations Building Information Exchange (COBie) spreadsheet and storing a representation of the associative mapping of the identification data for display in at least one of the BIM server and a client computing device in electronic communication with the server over a network.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2014Date of Patent: June 13, 2017Assignee: Viewpoint, Inc.Inventors: Richard Stokoe, Laurence Skoropinski, Andrew Thomson, Andrew Burden, Lloyd Pickering
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Publication number: 20140193794Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for generating adaptive surveys including questions and answer options selectable by users, and human-readable review prose based on answers to the questions. The survey may be related to an assessment of a business, and may be transmitted to a user electronic device. The generated survey may include one or more questions with selectable answer options. The selection of the answer options can be received from the user electronic device, and be used to generate the prose for the review. The user and/or the business may edit the prose and/or modify the intensity of the generated review. Tree data structures may be utilized to generate the questions of the survey, to store the answers, and generate the sentences of the review. Analytic data may be generated based on the selected answer options, which can be used to assess and influence marketing and business efforts.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2013Publication date: July 10, 2014Applicant: VIEWPOINTS, LLCInventors: Gilbert T. Olander, III, Christopher Lubkert, Joe Lobraco, Brian Dillard
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Patent number: 8724979Abstract: An imaging apparatus for imaging an object has an enclosure chassis that defines an enclosed imaging volume and that provides an imaging aperture to a camera apparatus that mounts against the chassis and that further provides at least a first lateral access opening for access to the object. A light-obstructing gasket is coupled to the enclosure chassis and has at least a first foldable lateral access leaf that folds to a first position against the first lateral access opening to block ambient light through the first lateral access opening and that folds away from the first lateral access opening to a second position to allow access to the object.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2013Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: Viewpoint Laboratories, LLC.Inventor: Gilbert D. Feke
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Patent number: 7596578Abstract: A method and system, executed by a server, is disclosed for receiving questions from users regarding one or more topics and providing answers from a set of experts. Users can direct questions to one or more specific experts, who in turn can answer the questions, refer the questions to other experts, or both. The server automatically organizes and stores questions and answers in various for a dedicated to one or more topics, such as medical treatment for specific health conditions. Responses generated by the experts to the questions asked by the users may, in turn, be reviewed by peer review personnel. The system may be deployed at multiple network sites to provide a question and answer forum to users who visit different sites. Each network site in which the system is deployed may selectively decide whether to post at its network site the responses by experts and/or peer review personnel to questions originating from other network sites.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2000Date of Patent: September 29, 2009Assignee: Expert Viewpoint, LLCInventor: James D. Marks
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Patent number: 7499911Abstract: Information control techniques capable of storing information from information providers distributedly and arbitrarily collecting information related to a desired subject. An information processor being in cooperation with other information processors connected with a network, comprising an operating unit for preparing information related to a desired subject, recording units for recording the information, a communication unit for communicating with other information processors connected with a network, and a control unit, the control unit, on receiving a subject-specified inquiry from other first information processor, retrieves information matching the inquiry in the recording units and sends back the matched information to a specified receiving party.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2003Date of Patent: March 3, 2009Assignee: Viewpoint Communications, Inc.Inventor: Ryuhei Akiyama
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Patent number: D989895Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: ViewPoint Ventures LLCInventors: Reinis Bekeris, Dmitrii Vasiukov