Patents by Inventor Andrew Charles Gallagher
Andrew Charles Gallagher 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: 11936720Abstract: A method for reducing the number of images or the length of a video from a digital image collection using a social network, includes receiving a digital image collection captured by a user to be viewed by a viewer; wherein the viewer and the user are members of the same social network and using a processor to access the social network to determine a relationship between a viewer and the user. The method further includes using the processor to determine a set of summarization parameters based on the relationship between the viewer and the user and using the processor to reduce the number of images or the length of the video from the digital image collection using the determined set of summarization parameters to be viewed by the viewer.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Kodak Alaris Inc.Inventors: Andrew Charles Gallagher, Aaron Thomas Deever
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Publication number: 20230045762Abstract: A method for reducing the number of images or the length of a video from a digital image collection using a social network, includes receiving a digital image collection captured by a user to be viewed by a viewer; wherein the viewer and the user are members of the same social network and using a processor to access the social network to determine a relationship between a viewer and the user. The method further includes using the processor to determine a set of summarization parameters based on the relationship between the viewer and the user and using the processor to reduce the number of images or the length of the video from the digital image collection using the determined set of summarization parameters to be viewed by the viewer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2022Publication date: February 9, 2023Applicant: Kodak Alaris Inc.Inventors: Andrew Charles GALLAGHER, Aaron Thomas DEEVER
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Patent number: 11477268Abstract: A method for reducing the number of images or the length of a video from a digital image collection using a social network, includes receiving a digital image collection captured by a user to be viewed by a viewer; wherein the viewer and the user are members of the same social network and using a processor to access the social network to determine a relationship between a viewer and the user. The method further includes using the processor to determine a set of summarization parameters based on the relationship between the viewer and the user and using the processor to reduce the number of images or the length of the video from the digital image collection using the determined set of summarization parameters to be viewed by the viewer.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2021Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: KODAK ALARIS INC.Inventors: Andrew Charles Gallagher, Aaron Thomas Deever
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Publication number: 20210273991Abstract: A method for reducing the number of images or the length of a video from a digital image collection using a social network, includes receiving a digital image collection captured by a user to be viewed by a viewer; wherein the viewer and the user are members of the same social network and using a processor to access the social network to determine a relationship between a viewer and the user. The method further includes using the processor to determine a set of summarization parameters based on the relationship between the viewer and the user and using the processor to reduce the number of images or the length of the video from the digital image collection using the determined set of summarization parameters to be viewed by the viewer.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2021Publication date: September 2, 2021Applicant: Kodak Alaris Inc.Inventors: Andrew Charles GALLAGHER, Aaron Thomas DEEVER
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Patent number: 11044301Abstract: A method for reducing the number of images or the length of a video from a digital image collection using a social network, includes receiving a digital image collection captured by a user to be viewed by a viewer; wherein the viewer and the user are members of the same social network and using a processor to access the social network to determine a relationship between a viewer and the user. The method further includes using the processor to determine a set of summarization parameters based on the relationship between the viewer and the user and using the processor to reduce the number of images or the length of the video from the digital image collection using the determined set of summarization parameters to be viewed by the viewer.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2015Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: KODAK ALARIS INC.Inventors: Andrew Charles Gallagher, Aaron Thomas Deever
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Method for determining stereo quality score and automatically improving the quality of stereo images
Patent number: 9530192Abstract: A method for improving a stereo image including a left view image and a right view image, comprising: using a data processor to automatically analyze the stereo image to determine an original stereo quality score responsive to relative positions of corresponding points in the left view image and the right view image; specifying a set of one or more candidate modifications to the stereo image; determining revised stereo quality scores based on each of the candidate modifications to the stereo image; selecting a particular candidate modification that produces a revised stereo quality score which indicates a higher quality level than the original stereo quality score; forming an output stereo image corresponding to the selected particular candidate modification; and storing the output stereo image in a processor-accessible memory.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2011Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: KODAK ALARIS INC.Inventors: Minwoo Park, Jiebo Luo, Andrew Charles Gallagher -
Patent number: 9300947Abstract: A method of producing a stereo image from a temporal sequence of digital images, comprising: receiving a temporal sequence of digital images; analyzing pairs of digital images to produce corresponding stereo suitability scores, wherein the stereo suitability score for a particular pair of images is determined responsive to the relative positions of corresponding features in the particular pair of digital image; selecting a pair of digital images including a first image and a second image based on the stereo suitability scores; using a processor to analyze the selected pair of digital images to produce a motion consistency map indicating regions of consistent motion, the motion consistency map having an array of pixels; producing a stereo image pair including a left view image and a right view image by combining the first image and the second image responsive to the motion consistency map; and storing the stereo image pair in a processor-accessible memory.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2011Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: Kodak Alaris Inc.Inventors: Minwoo Park, Jiebo Luo, Andrew Charles Gallagher
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Publication number: 20160036900Abstract: A method for reducing the number of images or the length of a video from a digital image collection using a social network, includes receiving a digital image collection captured by a user to be viewed by a viewer; wherein the viewer and the user are members of the same social network and using a processor to access the social network to determine a relationship between a viewer and the user. The method further includes using the processor to determine a set of summarization parameters based on the relationship between the viewer and the user and using the processor to reduce the number of images or the length of the video from the digital image collection using the determined set of summarization parameters to be viewed by the viewer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2015Publication date: February 4, 2016Applicant: C/O KODAK ALARIS INC.Inventors: Andrew Charles Gallagher, Aaron Thomas Deever
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Patent number: 9185469Abstract: A method for reducing the number of images or the length of a video from a digital image collection using a social network, includes receiving a digital image collection captured by a user to be viewed by a viewer; wherein the viewer and the user are members of the same social network and using a processor to access the social network to determine a relationship between a viewer and the user. The method further includes using the processor to determine a set of summarization parameters based on the relationship between the viewer and the user and using the processor to reduce the number of images or the length of the video from the digital image collection using the determined set of summarization parameters to be viewed by the viewer.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2010Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: KODAK ALARIS INC.Inventors: Andrew Charles Gallagher, Aaron Thomas Deever
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Patent number: 9113153Abstract: A method of producing a stereo image from a digital video includes receiving a digital video including a plurality of digital images captured by an image capture device; and using a processor to produce stereo suitability scores for at least two digital images from the plurality of digital images. The method further includes selecting a stereo candidate image based on the stereo suitability scores; producing a stereo image from the selected stereo candidate image wherein the stereo image includes the stereo candidate image and an associated stereo companion image based on the plurality of digital images from the digital video; and storing the stereo image whereby the stereo image can be presented for viewing by a user.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2011Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: KODAK ALARIS INC.Inventors: Andrew Charles Gallagher, Jiebo Luo, Majid Rabbani
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Patent number: 8908020Abstract: A printed dynamic anaglyph design apparatus is provided having a source of left eye information and right eye information, a memory data regarding colorant characteristics and a processor. The processor determines a colorant type map. At least one mutable colorant and at least one non-mutable colorant are selected for a colorant type map so that the printed dynamic anaglyph image has a first appearance state in which the at least one mutable colorant is in the first colorant state and is color matched to at least one of a left eye information and a right eye information and so that when the image is exposed to an external stimulus the mutable colorant changes color to provide a second appearance state having a color in a difference region that spectrally overlaps a spectral filter in one eye of a pair of stereo color glasses.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2012Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Eastman Kodac CompanyInventors: Andrew F. Kurtz, Andrew Charles Gallagher
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Patent number: 8693055Abstract: Methods are described that provide dynamic anaglyph images with a first appearance state and a second appearance state. At least one mutable colorant and at least one non-mutable colorant are selected for a colorant type map so that the printed dynamic anaglyph image has a first appearance state in which the at least one mutable colorant is in the first colorant state and is color matched to at least one of a left eye information and a right eye information and so that in the second appearance state printed the mutable colorant is in a second colorant state in which the at least one mutable colorant provides a color that spectrally overlaps a spectral filter in one eye of a pair of stereo color glasses so that three dimensional effects can be perceived.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2012Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Andrew F. Kurtz, Andrew Charles Gallagher
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Patent number: 8634661Abstract: A method for determining an event classification for digital images, comprising: receiving one or more digital images; detecting one or more man-made light emitting sources within the one or more digital images; using a data processor to automatically determine an event classification responsive to analyzing a spatial arrangement of the detected man-made light emitting sources in the one or more digital images; and storing metadata in a processor-accessible memory associating the determined event classification with each of the one or more digital images.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2011Date of Patent: January 21, 2014Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Fund 83 LLCInventors: Andrew Charles Gallagher, Peter O. Stubler, Andrew C. Blose
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Patent number: 8634660Abstract: A method for determining an event classification for digital images, comprising: receiving one or more digital images; detecting one or more lit candles within the one or more digital images; using a data processor to automatically determine an event classification responsive to analyzing a spatial arrangement of the detected lit candles in the one or more digital images; and storing metadata in a processor-accessible memory associating the determined event classification with each of the one or more digital images.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2011Date of Patent: January 21, 2014Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Fund 83 LLCInventors: Peter O. Stubler, Andrew C. Blose, Andrew Charles Gallagher
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Publication number: 20130222905Abstract: A printed dynamic anaglyph design apparatus is provided having a source of left eye information and right eye information, a memory data regarding colorant characteristics and a processor. The processor determines a colorant type map. At least one mutable colorant and at least one non-mutable colorant are selected for a colorant type map so that the printed dynamic anaglyph image has a first appearance state in which the at least one mutable colorant is in the first colorant state and is color matched to at least one of a left eye information and a right eye information and so that when the image is exposed to an external stimulus the mutable colorant changes color to provide a second appearance state having a color in a difference region that spectrally overlaps a spectral filter in one eye of a pair of stereo color glasses.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2012Publication date: August 29, 2013Inventors: Andrew F. Kurtz, Andrew Charles Gallagher
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Publication number: 20130222822Abstract: Methods are described that provide dynamic anaglyph images with a first appearance state and a second appearance state. At least one mutable colorant and at least one non-mutable colorant are selected for a colorant type map so that the printed dynamic anaglyph image has a first appearance state in which the at least one mutable colorant is in the first colorant state and is color matched to at least one of a left eye information and a right eye information and so that in the second appearance state printed the mutable colorant is in a second colorant state in which the at least one mutable colorant provides a color that spectrally overlaps a spectral filter in one eye of a pair of stereo color glasses so that three dimensional effects can be perceived.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2012Publication date: August 29, 2013Inventors: Andrew F. Kurtz, Andrew Charles Gallagher
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Publication number: 20130222904Abstract: Printed dynamic anaglyph images are provided. In one aspect the printed dynamic anaglyph image includes a receiver having with an image formed using a mutable colorant that changes spectral absorbance when exposed to a stimulus and a non-mutable colorant. The mutable colorant and non-mutable colorant are arranged so that the printed image has a first appearance state where portions of the print having the mutable colorant is color matched to the non-mutable colorant and a second appearance state when exposed to an external stimulus. In the second appearance state the mutable colorant provides a color that spectrally overlaps a spectral filter of one eye of a pair of stereo color glasses so that three dimensional effects can be perceived.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2012Publication date: August 29, 2013Inventors: Andrew F. Kurtz, Andrew Charles Gallagher
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Publication number: 20130058583Abstract: A method for determining an event classification for digital images, comprising: receiving one or more digital images; detecting one or more man-made light emitting sources within the one or more digital images; using a data processor to automatically determine an event classification responsive to analyzing a spatial arrangement of the detected man-made light emitting sources in the one or more digital images; and storing metadata in a processor-accessible memory associating the determined event classification with each of the one or more digital images.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2011Publication date: March 7, 2013Inventors: Andrew Charles Gallagher, Peter O. Stubler, Andrew C. Blose
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Publication number: 20130058542Abstract: A method for determining an event classification for digital images, comprising: receiving one or more digital images; detecting one or more lit candles within the one or more digital images; using a data processor to automatically determine an event classification responsive to analyzing a spatial arrangement of the detected lit candles in the one or more digital images; and storing metadata in a processor-accessible memory associating the determined event classification with each of the one or more digital images.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2011Publication date: March 7, 2013Inventors: Peter O. Stubler, Andrew C. Blose, Andrew Charles Gallagher
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Publication number: 20130058577Abstract: A method for determining an event classification for a set of related digital images, comprising: receiving a set of related digital images; detecting one or more man-made light emitting sources within at least one of the digital images; using a data processor to automatically determine an event classification responsive to analyzing a spatial arrangement of the detected man-made light emitting sources in the one or more digital images; and storing metadata in a processor-accessible memory associating the determined event classification with each of the digital images in the set of digital images.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2011Publication date: March 7, 2013Inventors: Peter O. Stubler, Andrew C. Blose, Andrew Charles Gallagher