Patents by Inventor Alan Kraemer
Alan Kraemer has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11104466Abstract: Robotic pick-and-place automation is used to transfer oral solid pharmaceuticals from moveable trays or canisters. Sensors are used to verify that the pharmaceuticals have been properly placed in the desired pharmaceutical locations precisely according to the patient prescription data. A pharmacist places pharmaceutical products within dispensing trays or canisters to present the pharmaceutical products for picking and placing via the robotic pick-and-place machinery. Once the canister or tray is located adjacent the pick-and-place device, a sensor or imaging unit associated with the pick-and-place device verifies that the pharmaceutical product, the size, shape, and/or color of an expected pharmaceutical product that is to be placed within the packaging material in accordance with patient prescription data stored by a computer associated with the system.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2019Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: MTS Medication Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Mark Sweet, Edward D. Kames, Heather Gileta, Robert Barrett, Alan Kraemer
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Patent number: 10721564Abstract: Embodiments herein are primarily described in the context of a system, a method, and a non-transitory computer readable medium for producing a sound with enhanced spatial detectability and reduced crosstalk interference. The audio processing system receives an input audio signal, and performs an audio processing on the input audio signal to generate an output audio signal. In one aspect of the disclosed embodiments, the audio processing system divides the input audio signal into different frequency bands, and enhances a spatial component of the input audio signal with respect to a nonspatial component of the input audio signal for each frequency band.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2018Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: Boomcloud 360, Inc.Inventors: Zachary Seldess, James Tracey, Alan Kraemer
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Publication number: 20190283915Abstract: Robotic pick-and-place automation is used to transfer oral solid pharmaceuticals from moveable trays or canisters. Sensors are used to verify that the pharmaceuticals have been properly placed in the desired pharmaceutical locations precisely according to the patient prescription data. A pharmacist places pharmaceutical products within dispensing trays or canisters to present the pharmaceutical products for picking and placing via the robotic pick-and-place machinery. Once the canister or tray is located adjacent the pick-and-place device, a sensor or imaging unit associated with the pick-and-place device verifies that the pharmaceutical product, the size, shape, and/or color of an expected pharmaceutical product that is to be placed within the packaging material in accordance with patient prescription data stored by a computer associated with the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2019Publication date: September 19, 2019Applicant: MTS Medication Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Mark Sweet, Edward D. Kames, Heather Gileta, Robert Barrett, Alan Kraemer
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Patent number: 10351285Abstract: Robotic pick-and-place automation is used to transfer oral solid pharmaceuticals from moveable trays or canisters. Sensors are used to verify that the pharmaceuticals have been properly placed in the desired pharmaceutical locations precisely according to the patient prescription data. A pharmacist places pharmaceutical products within dispensing trays or canisters to present the pharmaceutical products for picking and placing via the robotic pick-and-place machinery. Once the canister or tray is located adjacent the pick-and-place device, a sensor or imaging unit associated with the pick-and-place device verifies that the pharmaceutical product the size, shape, and/or color of an expected pharmaceutical product that is to be placed within the packaging material in accordance with patient prescription data stored by a computer associated with the system.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2014Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: MTS Medication Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Mark Sweet, Edward D Kames, Heather Gileta, Robert Barrett, Alan Kraemer
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Patent number: 10284955Abstract: An audio enhancement system can provide spatial enhancement, low frequency enhancement, and/or high frequency enhancement for headphone audio. The spatial enhancement can increase the sense of spaciousness or stereo separation between left and right headphone channels. The low frequency enhancement can enhance bass frequencies that are unreproducible or attenuated in headphone speakers by emphasizing harmonics of the low bass frequencies. The high frequency enhancement can emphasize higher frequencies that may be less reproducible or poorly tuned for headphone speakers. In some implementations, the audio enhancement system provides a user interface that enables a user to control the amount (e.g., gains) of each enhancement applied to headphone input signals. The audio enhancement system may also be designed to provide one or more of these enhancements more effectively when headphones with good coupling to the ear are used.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2017Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: Comhear, Inc.Inventor: Alan Kraemer
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Publication number: 20190090061Abstract: Embodiments herein are primarily described in the context of a system, a method, and a non-transitory computer readable medium for producing a sound with enhanced spatial detectability and reduced crosstalk interference. The audio processing system receives an input audio signal, and performs an audio processing on the input audio signal to generate an output audio signal. In one aspect of the disclosed embodiments, the audio processing system divides the input audio signal into different frequency bands, and enhances a spatial component of the input audio signal with respect to a nonspatial component of the input audio signal for each frequency band.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventors: Zachary Seldess, James Tracey, Alan Kraemer
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Patent number: 10225657Abstract: Embodiments herein are primarily described in the context of a system, a method, and a non-transitory computer readable medium for producing a sound with enhanced spatial detectability and reduced crosstalk interference. The audio processing system receives an input audio signal, and performs an audio processing on the input audio signal to generate an output audio signal. In one aspect of the disclosed embodiments, the audio processing system divides the input audio signal into different frequency bands, and enhances a spatial component of the input audio signal with respect to a nonspatial component of the input audio signal for each frequency band.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Boomcloud 360, Inc.Inventors: Zachary Seldess, James Tracey, Alan Kraemer
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Publication number: 20180213327Abstract: An audio enhancement system can provide spatial enhancement, low frequency enhancement, and/or high frequency enhancement for headphone audio. The spatial enhancement can increase the sense of spaciousness or stereo separation between left and right headphone channels. The low frequency enhancement can enhance bass frequencies that are unreproducible or attenuated in headphone speakers by emphasizing harmonics of the low bass frequencies. The high frequency enhancement can emphasize higher frequencies that may be less reproducible or poorly tuned for headphone speakers. In some implementations, the audio enhancement system provides a user interface that enables a user to control the amount (e.g., gains) of each enhancement applied to headphone input signals. The audio enhancement system may also be designed to provide one or more of these enhancements more effectively when headphones with good coupling to the ear are used.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2017Publication date: July 26, 2018Inventor: Alan Kraemer
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Patent number: 10009705Abstract: Embodiments herein are primarily described in the context of a system, a method, and a non-transitory computer readable medium for producing a sound with enhanced spatial detectability and a crosstalk simulation. The audio processing system receives a left and right input channel of an audio input signal, and performs an audio processing to generate an output audio signal. The system generates left and right spatially enhanced signals by gain adjusting side subband components and mid subband components of the left and right input channels. The audio processing system generates left and right crosstalk channels such as by applying a filter and time delay to the left and right input channels, and mixes the spatially enhanced channels with the crosstalk channels. In some embodiments, the system includes high/low frequency enhancement channels and passthrough channels derived from the input channels, which can be mixed with the output audio signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2017Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: Boomcloud 360, Inc.Inventors: Zachary Seldess, James Tracey, Alan Kraemer
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Patent number: 9866963Abstract: An audio enhancement system can provide spatial enhancement, low frequency enhancement, and/or high frequency enhancement for headphone audio. The spatial enhancement can increase the sense of spaciousness or stereo separation between left and right headphone channels. The low frequency enhancement can enhance bass frequencies that are unreproducible or attenuated in headphone speakers by emphasizing harmonics of the low bass frequencies. The high frequency enhancement can emphasize higher frequencies that may be less reproducible or poorly tuned for headphone speakers. In some implementations, the audio enhancement system provides a user interface that enables a user to control the amount (e.g., gains) of each enhancement applied to headphone input signals. The audio enhancement system may also be designed to provide one or more of these enhancements more effectively when headphones with good coupling to the ear are used.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2016Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: ComHear, Inc.Inventor: Alan Kraemer
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Publication number: 20170230777Abstract: Embodiments herein are primarily described in the context of a system, a method, and a non-transitory computer readable medium for producing a sound with enhanced spatial detectability and a crosstalk simulation. The audio processing system receives a left and right input channel of an audio input signal, and performs an audio processing to generate an output audio signal. The system generates left and right spatially enhanced signals by gain adjusting side subband components and mid subband components of the left and right input channels. The audio processing system generates left and right crosstalk channels such as by applying a filter and time delay to the left and right input channels, and mixes the spatially enhanced channels with the crosstalk channels. In some embodiments, the system includes high/low frequency enhancement channels and passthrough channels derived from the input channels, which can be mixed with the output audio signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2017Publication date: August 10, 2017Inventors: Zachary Seldess, James Tracey, Alan Kraemer
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Publication number: 20170208411Abstract: Embodiments herein are primarily described in the context of a system, a method, and a non-transitory computer readable medium for producing a sound with enhanced spatial detectability and reduced crosstalk interference. The audio processing system receives an input audio signal, and performs an audio processing on the input audio signal to generate an output audio signal. In one aspect of the disclosed embodiments, the audio processing system divides the input audio signal into different frequency bands, and enhances a spatial component of the input audio signal with respect to a nonspatial component of the input audio signal for each frequency band.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2017Publication date: July 20, 2017Inventors: Zachary Seldess, James Tracey, Alan Kraemer
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Publication number: 20170085605Abstract: An object-based teleconferencing protocol for use in providing video and/or audio content to teleconferencing participants in a teleconferencing event is provided. The object-based teleconferencing protocol includes one or more voice packets formed from a plurality of speech signals. One or more tagged voice packets is formed from the voice packets. The tagged voice packets include a metadata packet identifier. An interleaved transmission stream is formed from the tagged voice packets. One or more systems is configured to receive the tagged voice packets. The one or more systems is further configured to allow interactive spatial configuration of the participants of the teleconferencing event.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2015Publication date: March 23, 2017Applicant: ComHear, Inc.Inventor: Alan Kraemer
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Publication number: 20160134970Abstract: An audio enhancement system can provide spatial enhancement, low frequency enhancement, and/or high frequency enhancement for headphone audio. The spatial enhancement can increase the sense of spaciousness or stereo separation between left and right headphone channels. The low frequency enhancement can enhance bass frequencies that are unreproducible or attenuated in headphone speakers by emphasizing harmonics of the low bass frequencies. The high frequency enhancement can emphasize higher frequencies that may be less reproducible or poorly tuned for headphone speakers. In some implementations, the audio enhancement system provides a user interface that enables a user to control the amount (e.g., gains) of each enhancement applied to headphone input signals. The audio enhancement system may also be designed to provide one or more of these enhancements more effectively when headphones with good coupling to the ear are used.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2016Publication date: May 12, 2016Inventor: Alan Kraemer
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Publication number: 20160122060Abstract: Robotic pick-and-place automation is used to transfer oral solid pharmaceuticals from moveable trays or canisters. A variety of sensors are used in order to automatically verify that the oral solid pharmaceuticals have been properly placed in the desired oral solid pharmaceutical package locations precisely according to the patient prescription data. A pharmacist places oral solid pharmaceutical products within dispensing trays or canisters which are used to present the oral solid pharmaceutical products for picking and placing via the robotic pick-and-place machinery.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2014Publication date: May 5, 2016Inventors: Mark SWEET, Edward D. KAMES, Heather GILETA, Robert BARRETT, Alan KRAEMER
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Patent number: 9258664Abstract: An audio enhancement system can provide spatial enhancement, low frequency enhancement, and/or high frequency enhancement for headphone audio. The spatial enhancement can increase the sense of spaciousness or stereo separation between left and right headphone channels. The low frequency enhancement can enhance bass frequencies that are unreproducible or attenuated in headphone speakers by emphasizing harmonics of the low bass frequencies. The high frequency enhancement can emphasize higher frequencies that may be less reproducible or poorly tuned for headphone speakers. In some implementations, the audio enhancement system provides a user interface that enables a user to control the amount (e.g., gains) of each enhancement applied to headphone input signals. The audio enhancement system may also be designed to provide one or more of these enhancements more effectively when headphones with good coupling to the ear are used.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2014Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: Comhear, Inc.Inventor: Alan Kraemer
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Publication number: 20140348358Abstract: An audio enhancement system can provide spatial enhancement, low frequency enhancement, and/or high frequency enhancement for headphone audio. The spatial enhancement can increase the sense of spaciousness or stereo separation between left and right headphone channels. The low frequency enhancement can enhance bass frequencies that are unreproducible or attenuated in headphone speakers by emphasizing harmonics of the low bass frequencies. The high frequency enhancement can emphasize higher frequencies that may be less reproducible or poorly tuned for headphone speakers. In some implementations, the audio enhancement system provides a user interface that enables a user to control the amount (e.g., gains) of each enhancement applied to headphone input signals. The audio enhancement system may also be designed to provide one or more of these enhancements more effectively when headphones with good coupling to the ear are used.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2014Publication date: November 27, 2014Inventor: Alan Kraemer
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Patent number: 8509464Abstract: A method for processing audio signals can include applying at least one front perspective filter to each of left and right front audio signals to yield filtered left and right front output signals, where the left and right front output signals each drive a front speaker. Moreover, the method can include applying at least one rear perspective filter to each of left and right rear audio signals to yield left and right rear output signals, where the left and right rear output signals each drive a rear speaker to simulate a rear surround sound effect when positioned in front of a listener.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2011Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: DTS LLCInventors: Hideaki Kato, Alan Kraemer, Sarah Yang
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Patent number: 8050434Abstract: A method for processing audio signals can include receiving left and right front audio signals, where the left and right front audio signals including information about front spatial position of sound sources relative to a listener. The method can also include receiving left and right rear audio signals, where the left and right rear audio signals include information about rear spatial position of sound sources relative to a listener. In addition, the method can include applying at least one front perspective filter to each of the left and right front audio signals to yield filtered left and right front output signals, where the left and right front output signals each drive a front speaker.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2007Date of Patent: November 1, 2011Assignee: SRS Labs, Inc.Inventors: Hideaki Kato, Alan Kraemer, Sarah Yang
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Patent number: 7522733Abstract: Reproduction of stereophonic audio information over a single speaker requires summing multiple stereo channels. When signals having approximately equal magnitudes and approximately opposite phases at a frequency are added together, the audio information at the frequency is lost. To preserve areas of potential cancellation and potential audio information loss, the audio enhancement system adjusts the phase relationship between the stereophonic channels. To avoid the loss of the spatial content of the stereo signal, the audio enhancement system determines the difference information that exists between different stereophonic channels. The audio enhancement system enhances the difference information and mixes the enhanced difference information with the phase adjusted signals to generate an enhanced monophonic output.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2003Date of Patent: April 21, 2009Assignee: SRS Labs, Inc.Inventors: Alan Kraemer, Richard J. Oliver