Patents by Inventor Alan T. Coté

Alan T. Coté 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).

  • Patent number: 8902220
    Abstract: A system and method for a pre-print, three-dimensional virtual rendering of a print piece is disclosed. A plurality of modular/pipelined architectural layers are managed, operated, and organized by a controller. A product definition is provided to a job ticket adaptation layer where it is transformed into a physical model. The physical model is then transformed into a display model via the product model layer. The display model is transformed into a scene that can be displayed on a graphical user interface as a three dimensional virtual rendering by a rendering layer, where the binding elements may further include 3D binding models as well as 2D textures on 3D surfaces to simulate 3D models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Robert J. Rolleston, Alan T. Coté, Neil R. Sembower, Steven J. Harrington, Pascal Valobra
  • Publication number: 20130076730
    Abstract: A system and method for a pre-print, three-dimensional virtual rendering of a print piece is disclosed. A plurality of modular/pipelined architectural layers are managed, operated, and organized by a controller. A product definition is provided to a job ticket adaptation layer where it is transformed into a physical model. The physical model is then transformed into a display model via the product model layer. The display model is transformed into a scene that can be displayed on a graphical user interface as a three dimensional virtual rendering by a rendering layer, where the rendering includes one or more binding elements to satisfy the product definition. The modularity further enables different product description formats to be supported by only altering the job ticket adaptation layer, and that different graphics rendering engines can be supported by altering only the rendering layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Robert J. Rolleston, Alan T. Coté, Neil R. Sembower, Steven J. Harrington, Pascal Valobra, Aanand Natarajan
  • Publication number: 20130076727
    Abstract: A system and method for a pre-print, three-dimensional virtual rendering of a print piece is disclosed. A plurality of modular/pipelined architectural layers are managed, operated, and organized by a controller. A product definition is provided to a job ticket adaptation layer where it is transformed into a physical model. The physical model is then transformed into a display model via the product model layer. The display model is transformed into a scene that can be displayed on a graphical user interface as a three dimensional virtual rendering by a rendering layer, where the rendering includes one or more binding elements to satisfy the product definition. The binding elements may further include 3D binding models as well as 2D textures on 3D surfaces to simulate 3D models. The modularity further enables different product description formats to be supported by only altering the job ticket adaptation layer, and that different graphics rendering engines can be supported by altering only the rendering layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Robert J. Rolleston, Alan T. Coté, Neil R. Sembower, Steven J. Harrington, Pascal Valobra, Aanand Natarajan
  • Publication number: 20130077113
    Abstract: A system and method for a pre-print, three-dimensional virtual rendering of a print piece is disclosed. A plurality of modular/pipelined architectural layers are managed, operated, and organized by a controller. A product definition is provided to a job ticket adaptation layer where it is transformed into a physical model. The physical model is then transformed into a display model via the product model layer. The display model is transformed into a scene that can be displayed on a graphical user interface as a three dimensional virtual rendering by a rendering layer, where the rendering includes one or more binding elements to satisfy the product definition. The modularity further enables different product description formats to be supported by only altering the job ticket adaption layer, and that different graphics rendering engines can be supported by altering only the rendering layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Publication date: March 28, 2013
    Applicant: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Robert J. Rolleston, Alan T. Coté, Neil R. Sembower, Steven J. Harrington, Pascal Valobra, Aanand Natarajan, Mahesh Neginhal
  • Publication number: 20120162202
    Abstract: A system and method for a pre-print, three-dimensional virtual rendering of a print piece is disclosed. A plurality of modular/pipelined architectural layers are managed, operated, and organized by a controller. A product definition is provided to a job ticket adaptation layer where it is transformed into a physical model. The physical model is then transformed into a display model via the product model layer. The display model is transformed into a scene that can be displayed on a graphical user interface as a three dimensional virtual rendering by a rendering layer, where the binding elements may further include 3D binding models as well as 2D textures on 3D surfaces to simulate 3D models.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Applicant: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Robert J. Rolleston, Alan T. Coté, Neil R. Sembower, Steven J. Harrington, Pascal Valobra
  • Patent number: 7415449
    Abstract: In accordance with one aspect of the present exemplary embodiment, a system determines a solution based on received data. An intake component receives an incomplete data set from one or more sources. A recommendation system transforms the incomplete data set into a semantic data set via latent semantic indexing, classifies the semantic data set into an existing cluster and provides one or more solutions of the existing cluster as one or more recommendations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Ming Zhong, Tong Sun, Michael D. Shepherd, Alan T. Coté