Patents by Inventor Alberto Ramos

Alberto Ramos 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: 8773424
    Abstract: Technologies are described herein for providing user interfaces through which a user may interact with a top-down map of a reconstructed structure within a 3-D scene. An application provides one or more user interfaces allowing a user to select a camera pose, a reconstruction element, a point, or a group of points on the top-down map. The application then determines at least one representative photograph from the visual reconstruction based on the selection of the user, and the displays a preview of the representative photograph on the top-down map as a thumbnail image. The provided user interfaces may further allow the user to navigate to the representative photograph in the local-navigation display of the visual reconstruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Billy Chen, Eyal Ofek, Gonzalo Alberto Ramos, Jonathan Robert Dughi, David Maxwell Gedye
  • Publication number: 20140164988
    Abstract: Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are provided for immersive navigation between one or more views. That is, an immersive user interface may display a first view (e.g., an image) depicting one or more entities (e.g., a person, a location, an object, a building, etc.). Responsive to a user expressing interest in (e.g., selecting) a first entity depicted within the first view, the immersive user interface may display one or more views depicting the first entity without removing the user from an immersive experience (e.g., the immersive user interface may remain in a substantially full-screen view mode, a substantially edge-to-edge view mode, a 3-D mode, etc.). Responsive to the user expressing interest in (e.g., selecting) a second entity depicted within a currently displayed view, the immersive user interface may display one or more views depicting the second entity without removing the user from the immersive experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2012
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Donald A. Barnett, Tair Barkay, Gonzalo Alberto Ramos
  • Publication number: 20130155180
    Abstract: Among other things, one or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for rendering imagery that compensates for parallax. Image data may comprise a sequence of images of a location, collected at known intervals (e.g., distances), such as along a path. The image data can comprise a first layer comprising a first depth, and a second layer comprising a second depth, that is different from the first depth. The image data can be composed into resulting imagery, where the first layer is composed at the first depth and the second layer is composed at the second depth. The resulting imagery can be rendered to compensate for, or rather make use of, parallax, such that the first layer is rendered at a first movement speed, based at least upon the first depth, and the second layer is rendered at a second movement speed, based at least upon the second depth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy Wantland, Gonzalo Alberto Ramos, Donald Barnett
  • Publication number: 20120179230
    Abstract: The invention is a device capable of performing an unspecified number of treatments on any part of the body, locally or generally and at high speed, wherein the patient does not come into contact with vapours or fluids, whether in manual or automatic operating mode with pre-programmed treatments, using to this end contrasting applications as an essential base. The patient receives the contrasting applications through so-called contrast modules (17) made of impermeable, flexible and heat-conducting material, designed to suit each of the areas of the patient's body to be treated. The fluid, previously heated or cooled to the appropriate temperature, circulates through the contrast modules, transmitting the different temperatures therethrough (cold and hot applications). The device includes, for operation thereof, a thermostat control module having one, two, three or more independent circuits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2009
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: ARB SYSTEMS PROYECTOS ELECTRONICOS, S.L.
    Inventors: Alberto Ramírez Barrones, Alberto Ramos Bardi
  • Publication number: 20110314471
    Abstract: Manufacturing a virtual information handling system (IHS) includes creating a virtual IHS including a component identifier. A boot process is then begun for the virtual IHS. A manufacturing operating system is then retrieved for the virtual IHS using the component identifier. The manufacturing operating system is then installed on the virtual IHS. Manufacturing a virtual IHS may also include determining a common operating system and a common software subset among a plurality of to-be-manufactured virtual IHSs. A first virtual IHS may then be created and the common operating system may be configured on the first virtual IHS. At least a portion of a first virtual IHS software may also be configured on the first virtual IHS. The configuration of the first virtual IHS software on the first virtual IHS is stopped when the common software subset is configured on the first virtual IHS. The first virtual IHS may then be cloned to create a cloned virtual IHS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Alberto Ramos, Alex Paul Tips, Roy Meaney
  • Patent number: 8032739
    Abstract: Manufacturing a virtual information handling system (IHS) includes creating a virtual IHS including a component identifier. A boot process is then started for the virtual IHS. A manufacturing operating system is retrieved for the virtual IHS using the component identifier. The manufacturing operating system is installed on the virtual IHS. Manufacturing a virtual IHS may also include determining a common operating system and a common software subset among a plurality of to-be-manufactured virtual IHSs. A first virtual IHS may be created and the common operating system may be configured on the first virtual IHS. At least a portion of a first virtual IHS software may also be configured on the first virtual IHS. The configuration of the first virtual IHS software on the first virtual IHS is stopped when the common software subset is configured on the first virtual IHS. The first virtual IHS may then be cloned to create a cloned virtual IHS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Alberto Ramos, Alex Paul Tips, Roy Meaney
  • Publication number: 20110187716
    Abstract: Technologies are described herein for providing user interfaces through which a user may interact with a top-down map of a reconstructed structure within a 3-D scene. An application provides one or more user interfaces allowing a user to select a camera pose, a reconstruction element, a point, or a group of points on the top-down map. The application then determines at least one representative photograph from the visual reconstruction based on the selection of the user, and the displays a preview of the representative photograph on the top-down map as a thumbnail image. The provided user interfaces may further allow the user to navigate to the representative photograph in the local-navigation display of the visual reconstruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Billy Chen, Eyal Ofek, Gonzalo Alberto Ramos, Jonathan Robert Dughi, David Maxwell Gedye
  • Publication number: 20110187704
    Abstract: Technologies are described herein for generating and displaying top-down maps of reconstructed structures to improve navigation of photographs within a 3-D scene. A 3-D point cloud is computed from a collection of photographs of the scene. A top-down map is generated from the 3-D point cloud by projecting the points in the point cloud into a two-dimensional plane. The points in the projection may be filtered and/or enhanced to enhance the display of the top-down map. Finally, the top-down map is displayed to the user in conjunction with or as an alternative to the photographs from the reconstructed structure or scene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2010
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Billy Chen, Eyal Ofek, Gonzalo Alberto Ramos, Jonathan Robert Dughi, David Maxwell Gedye
  • Publication number: 20100257019
    Abstract: Interactively associating user-defined descriptions with objects. At least two users create descriptions based on provided objects. The users analyze the descriptions to determine whether the users were provided with the same or different objects. If all the users are correct in their determinations, associations between the created descriptions and the corresponding objects are adjusted. In some embodiments, the users interact via a two-player game where the input is obfuscated and the output is optionally obfuscated. For example, the users each provide a search query responsive to receipt of a search intention. If a single search intention was provided and all the users make the correct determination, the search queries are associated with the search intention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2009
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: David Maxwell Chickering, Edith Lok Man Law, Anton Mityagin, Gonzalo Alberto Ramos, Aparna Lakshmiratan
  • Publication number: 20090259834
    Abstract: Manufacturing a virtual information handling system (IHS) includes creating a virtual IHS including a component identifier. A boot process is then begun for the virtual IHS. A manufacturing operating system is then retrieved for the virtual IHS using the component identifier. The manufacturing operating system is then installed on the virtual IHS. Manufacturing a virtual IHS may also include determining a common operating system and a common software subset among a plurality of to-be-manufactured virtual IHSs. A first virtual IHS may then be created and the common operating system may be configured on the first virtual IHS. At least a portion of a first virtual IHS software may also be configured on the first virtual IHS. The configuration of the first virtual IHS software on the first virtual IHS is stopped when the common software subset is configured on the first virtual IHS. The first virtual IHS may then be cloned to create a cloned virtual IHS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2008
    Publication date: October 15, 2009
    Applicant: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
    Inventors: Alberto Ramos, Alex Paul Tips, Roy Meaney
  • Publication number: 20090012326
    Abstract: The present invention concerns to the use of salicylate in the treatment of mammal intoxications caused by the herbicide paraquat (PQ). It was achieved, for the first time, 100% of survival 30 days after the administration to Wistar rats, by intraperitoneal route, of a PQ dose that, in the absence of treatment, is itself 100% lethal at the end of 6 days. The administration of salicylate, two hours after PQ, reversed the PQ toxicity and extended the life of the animals to the levels of the control group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2007
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Applicant: UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO
    Inventors: Felix Dias Carvalho, Ricardo Jorge Dinis Oliveira, Maria de Lourdes Pinho De Almeida Souteiro Bastos, Fernando Manuel Gomes Remiao, Jose Alberto Ramos Duarte, Amparo Sanchez Navarro
  • Patent number: 4306692
    Abstract: An orientation maneuver for a bias momentum stabilized spacecraft is carried out on a spacecraft initially spinning about a minimum moment of inertia axis. With the spacecraft spinning about that axis, it is precessed until the angular momentum vector points to the south along the orbit normal. The spin rate is then reduced until the angular momentum remaining in the spacecraft is substantially equal to the nominal angular momentum of the momentum wheel in an in-orbit operation. The momentum wheel is then energized and gradually spun up until it contains its nominal angular momentum. As the wheel accelerates, the angular momentum will be redistributed between the wheel and the body, with the total system angular momentum remaining constant. When the wheel has reached its final speed, the spacecraft will have re-oriented itself such that the body of the spacecraft is spinning about the positive pitch axis, coning about the angular momentum vector in a nutational motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1979
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1981
    Assignee: Communications Satellite Corporation
    Inventors: Marshall H. Kaplan, Thomas C. Patterson, Alberto Ramos