Patents by Inventor Andrew An

Andrew An 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: 8638295
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and products are described that provide control configuration for a digital image system. One aspect provides for a system configured to identify one or more input control devices in communication with a digital image application operating on said system, the one or more input devices comprising one or more control elements; activating an input control device mode based on a number of identified input control devices; and mapping the one or more control elements of each input control device to one or more digital image application functions based on a type of the input control device and the input control mode. Other aspects and embodiments are also described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Omnyx, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Bruss, Maura Ann Bidinost, Tony Melanson
  • Patent number: 8638228
    Abstract: Systems and methods are discussed for providing sensor enhanced safety, recovery, and movement evaluation systems. Sensors that monitor user activity and behavior are worn by a user and/or placed in the user environment. Data from the sensors are processed to obtain a safety, recovery, and/or activity evaluation. Based on the evaluation, recommendations or adjustments to the terms of an insurance policy covering the user, the user's employer, or a facility providing health care to the user to accurately reflect the risks associated with the user, employer, and/or facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Hartford Fire Insurance Company
    Inventors: Andrew J. Amigo, Michael Gingrave
  • Patent number: 8636338
    Abstract: A hand-held printer that includes an inkjet array having a plurality of inkjets is disclosed. The hand-held printer may include an inkjet cap sized to cooperatively engage the inkjet array, wherein the inkjet cap is movable between and open position and a closed position, and a plurality of wipers carried by the inkjet cap, wherein each of the plurality of wipers is configured to engage one of the plurality of inkjets as the inkjet cap moves from the open position to the closed position; and wherein each of the plurality of wipers includes a gasket configured to form a seal adjacent to one of the plurality of inkjets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Marvell World Trade Ltd.
    Inventors: James Mealy, Jonathan Neal Andrews, Asher Simmons
  • Patent number: 8636007
    Abstract: A patient interface system for delivery of a supply of air at positive pressure to the entrance of a patient's airways for treatment of sleep disordered breathing includes an air delivery tube connected to a flexible portion of a plenum; a vent structure having sufficient rigidity to support its own weight under gravity and/or not to block or fold under tube movement or tube drag; and a patient interface structure. The patient interface structure includes a seal forming structure arranged on a top portion of the plenum; and a seal positioning and stabilizing structure connected to a flexible portion of the plenum. The seal-forming structure is substantially decoupled from a tube drag force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: ResMed Limited
    Inventors: Gerard Michael Rummery, Robert Edward Henry, Phoebe Katherine Hill, Andrew Hurst, Fiona Catherine Carroll
  • Patent number: 8639330
    Abstract: A system, method, or device classifies an arrhythmia according to the temporal order in which a depolarization wave associated with a particular heart contraction is received at a plurality of electrodes. One or more antiarrhythmia therapies is mapped to each arrhythmia classification. When a particularly classified arrhythmia is detected, the correspondingly mapped therapy list is selected and an appropriate antiarrhythmia therapy delivered. In one example, the particular therapy delivered in response to an arrhythmia depends at least in part on its historical success in treating arrhythmias of that classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.
    Inventors: Julio C. Spinelli, Qingsheng Zhu, Jeffrey E. Stahmann, Andrew P. Kramer
  • Patent number: 8636565
    Abstract: A method for cooling electronic equipment can include flowing cooling air across a plurality of computer units and into a common warm air plenum located at a first end of the computer units; flowing air from the warm air plenum through one or more cooling units, and into an area located at a second end of the computer units; and controlling a flow rate of air out of the warm air plenum to maintain a predetermined pressure differential between the second end of the computer units and the first end of the computer units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Exaflop LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Carlson, William Hamburgen, Jimmy Clidaras
  • Patent number: 8639399
    Abstract: A method and system is disclosed for controlling problematic vibrations in an aircraft having. The method and system have the ability to cancel problematic rotary wing helicopter vibrations using independent active force generator power and with distributed communications therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Lord Corporaiton
    Inventors: Mark R. Jolly, Askari Badre-Alam, Russell E. Altieri, Andrew D. Meyers
  • Patent number: 8639693
    Abstract: Personal recommendations are provided to users based on a relationship between place listings which with a user has interacted and collections of place listings. The user may interact with a place listing by reviewing the place, or accessing a web page that includes user-reviewed places. The collections of place listings are used to calculate a recommendation score for a candidate listing based on aggregate co-occurrence of the place listing and the candidate listing in the collections. The recommendation scores identify a probability that the user would appreciate the candidate listing based on the user's interaction with the place listing. Justifications may also be provided for display on the user's device to identify the relevance of the recommended listing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: John Hawkins, Andrew Eland, Bernhard Seefeld
  • Patent number: 8638985
    Abstract: Techniques for human body pose estimation are disclosed herein. Images such as depth images, silhouette images, or volumetric images may be generated and pixels or voxels of the images may be identified. The techniques may process the pixels or voxels to determine a probability that each pixel or voxel is associated with a segment of a body captured in the image or to determine a three-dimensional representation for each pixel or voxel that is associated with a location on a canonical body. These probabilities or three-dimensional representations may then be utilized along with the images to construct a posed model of the body captured in the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jamie Daniel Joseph Shotton, Shahram Izadi, Otmar Hilliges, David Kim, David Geoffrey Molyneaux, Matthew Darius Cook, Pushmeet Kohli, Antonio Criminisi, Ross Brook Girshick, Andrew William Fitzgibbon
  • Patent number: 8636449
    Abstract: A method of drilling one or more holes, substantially in situ, in a turbomachine casing includes locating piping including at least one vacuum head within the turbomachine casing in proximity to a hole to be drilled; drilling at least one hole in the casing such that drill chips or shavings caused by the drilling are collected in the vacuum head; and applying a vacuum through the piping to the at least one vacuum head to thereby remove the drill chips or shavings collected in the vacuum head to a location outside the turbomachine casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Andrew Thomas Hynous, Brian Ralph Thompson
  • Patent number: 8640021
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for delivering content customized to the specific user or users interacting with the system. The system includes one or more modules for recognizing an identity of a user. These modules may include for example a gesture recognition engine, a facial recognition engine, a body language recognition engine and a voice recognition engine. The user may also be carrying a mobile device such as a smart phone which identifies the user. One or more of these modules may cooperate to identify a user, and then customize the user's content based on the user's identity. In particular, the system receives user preferences indicating the content a user wishes to receive and the conditions under which it is to be received. Based on the user preferences and recognition of a user identity and/or other traits, the system presents content customized for a particular user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Kathryn Stone Perez, Andrew Fuller, Avi Bar-Zeev, Sheridan Martin Small
  • Patent number: 8636111
    Abstract: A suspension platform system having a work platform suspended between a sinistral modular mast and a dextral modular mast by a hoisting system. The modular masts are composed of at least two mast units stacked vertically and attached to one another. Each mast unit has a multifunction rail including a plurality of safety engagement devices and a stabilizer guide device, and a unit interconnection device. The work platform has at least two mast stabilizers that cooperate with the stabilizer guide devices to prevent undesired swaying of the suspended work platform. The work platform has a plurality of platform mast engagers cooperating with at least one of the mast safety engagement devices to releasably lock the platform to the modular masts. The hoisting system includes multiple carriages, hoists, and mast cables. Each carriage engages the associated mast so that the carriage may be conveniently slid up and down the mast.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Sky Climber, LLC
    Inventors: George Anasis, Robert E. Eddy, Jean-Francois DeSmedt, Brian J. Andrews, Ryan Crisp
  • Patent number: 8636252
    Abstract: A unitized composite structure comprises a composite member having at least one integrally formed composite stiffener. At least one end of the stiffener includes a runout forming a substantially smooth transition between the stiffener and the composite structure. The stiffener and runout may comprise a crown, side walls, and base cap. The transition in the runout may include a width of the crown increasing, a height of the side walls decreasing, and the base cap splaying outwardly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: David A. Pook, Peter J. Lockett, Andrew Glynn
  • Patent number: 8639059
    Abstract: The present invention discloses methods for lossless shearing and/or rotation of two-dimensional (2D) data, including digital images, with minute discrete angular increments, carried out only by permutations in the Fourier frequency domain, by exploiting the natural shear occurring as a result of computing a single one-dimensional discrete Fourier transform (DFT) of 2D arrays. Rotations in general, especially for oblong arrays, occur on elliptical paths. Circular rotation, by an angle of arctan(1/width), is achieved on square arrays. When each dimension is multiple of a smaller N, the rotation/shear angle can be increased to arctan(2N/width). Rotation steps can be repeated in long, animation-like series, with neither loss nor degradation of the Fourier content; so much so that tracing the steps back does restore the original data with remarkable precision.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Inventor: Andrew Batrac
  • Patent number: 8636467
    Abstract: A variable geometry turbine of the kind used in a turbocharger has a variable geometry element such as a nozzle ring that is operated by an actuator. The actuator comprises a motor which drives a cross-shaft in rotation. The cross-shaft in turn drives a pair of guide rods on which the nozzle ring is supported in translation so as to move the nozzle ring and control the width of the inlet passage of the turbine. The cross-shaft and guide rods are drivingly engaged by a rack and pinion or thread or another toothed or threaded formation suitable for converting rotational movement into translational movement. The cross-shaft can be located in close proximity to the guide rods and the output of the motor shaft so as to provide a compact package. Moreover, the torque required to resist movement of the nozzle ring in operation is much reduced in comparison to existing designs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Cummins Turbo Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Jeffrey Carter, David Andrew Luck, Henry David Lambton Carr, Przemyslaw Swidlinski
  • Patent number: 8636592
    Abstract: Provided are technologies for the distribution of signals corresponding to players in a multi-player game situation to be distributed of appropriate video displays. Frames of a video signal are mapped to corresponding game controllers and the game controllers are mapped to display devices. Frames are then routed to an appropriate video display on a corresponding display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Erik J. Burckart, Matthew L. Gauch, Andrew Ivory, Aaron K. Shook
  • Patent number: 8638708
    Abstract: An access point of a communications network receives a multicast or broadcast packet from a source. The access point converts the multicast or broadcast packet into a unicast packet addressed to a station associated with the access point. The access point then transmits the unicast packet over the communications network from the access point to the station. The access point further may determine a minimum data rate by which the access point may transmit the multicast or broadcast packet to the station and determines an effective unicast rate for transmitting the unicast packet to the station. If the effective unicast rate does not exceed the minimum data rate, the access point does not transmit the unicast packet to the station and transmits the multicast or broadcast packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Ruckus Wireless, Inc.
    Inventors: William S. Kish, John Chanak, Charles Andrew Gram
  • Patent number: D698226
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Stout Stuff, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher E. Chance, Thomas Lawson, Andrew Bojie, Jake Mackenzie Houser, Timothy Hart
  • Patent number: D698229
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Stout Stuff, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher E. Chance, Thomas Lawson, Andrew Bojie, Jake Mackenzie Houser, Timothy Hart
  • Patent number: D698320
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventors: Mark Andrew Condo, Thomas Louis Scanzillo, William Henry Dietz