Patents by Inventor Anthony Rhodes
Anthony Rhodes 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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Publication number: 20210027591Abstract: The present invention relates to an emergency alert system that triggers a distress event that is automatically managed by a community security system. The emergency alert system is activated through users' mobile devices and initiates communication with the community security system. Management by the community security system includes receiving the GPS location of the mobile device, recording a continuous stream of audio and video from the panic user's mobile application, notifying potential responders or groups of responders in the vicinity of the panic alert and, among other things, activating localized visual and audible deterrents present in surround private security systems, intelligently directing community CCTV cameras to record the distress event and issuing notifications to the closest community members for immediate responses, as well as other responder or group notification members.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventors: Christopher Paul Davies, Scott Anthony Rhodes
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Patent number: 10854058Abstract: The present invention relates to an emergency alert system that triggers a distress event that is automatically managed by a community security system. The emergency alert system is activated through users' mobile devices and initiates communication with the community security system. Management by the community security system includes receiving the GPS location of the mobile device, recording a continuous stream of audio and video from the panic user's mobile application, notifying potential responders or groups of responders in the vicinity of the panic alert and, among other things, activating localized visual and audible deterrents present in surrounding private security systems, intelligently directing community CCTV cameras to record the distress event and issuing notifications to the closest community members for immediate responses, as well as other responders or group notification members.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2016Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: Overview Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Paul Davies, Scott Anthony Rhodes
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Publication number: 20200311948Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide an apparatus comprising a processor to receive an input video, convert the input video to one or more image sequences based at least in part on an analysis of a motion of one or more objects in the input video, receive an indicator of an object of interest in a first frame to be tracked through multiple frames in the input video, and apply a convolutional neural network to track the object of interest through the multiple frames in the input video. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2019Publication date: October 1, 2020Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: ANTHONY RHODES, MANAN GOEL, SWARNENDU KAR
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Patent number: 10769692Abstract: A system is provided that includes a computer implemented method for the automated purchasing of a security system having a plurality of security equipment components for use and installation on a unique geo-coordinate referenced location (i.e., a property). The system also includes a computer implemented method for installing the security equipment on the property that was purchased using the automated purchasing system.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2016Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: Overview Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Paul Davies, Scott Anthony Rhodes
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Publication number: 20200160528Abstract: Techniques related to automatically segmenting video frames into per pixel fidelity object of interest and background regions are discussed. Such techniques include applying tessellation to a video frame to generate feature frames corresponding to the video frame and applying a segmentation network implementing context aware skip connections to an input volume including the feature frames and a context feature volume corresponding to the video frame to generate a segmentation for the video frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2020Publication date: May 21, 2020Applicant: INTEL CORPORATIONInventors: Anthony Rhodes, Manan Goel
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Publication number: 20200105123Abstract: The present invention relates to a community security system capable of monitoring multiple, generally adjacent, consecutive private security areas to confirm human activity and engage sensory alerts. The community security system includes at least two private security areas having the capability of being networked together to enable information sharing. Each private security area is monitored by a private security system and contains one or more detection devices for monitoring and detecting activity occurring within the boundaries of the private security area. Information detected by detection devices within the private security areas can then communicate with other detection devices within the private security area or with the community security system to confirm activity, track activity across adjacent boundaries, engage sensory alerts and notify community members or authorities, as needed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Inventors: Christopher Paul Davies, Scott Anthony Rhodes
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Publication number: 20200074185Abstract: Techniques related to automatically segmenting a video frame into fine grain object of interest and background regions using a ground truth segmentation of an object in a previous frame are discussed. Such techniques apply multiple levels of segmentation tracking and prediction based on color, shape, and motion of the segmentation to determine per-pixel object probabilities, and solve an energy summation model to generate a final segmentation for the video frame using the object probabilities.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2019Publication date: March 5, 2020Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Anthony Rhodes, Manan Goel
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Publication number: 20200026928Abstract: Techniques related to automatically segmenting video frames into per pixel dense object of interest and background regions are discussed. Such techniques include applying a segmentation convolutional neural network (CNN) to a CNN input including a current video frame, a previous video frame, an object of interest indicator frame, a motion frame, and multiple feature frames each including features compressed from feature layers of an object classification convolutional neural network as applied to the current video frame to generate candidate segmentations and selecting one of the candidate segmentations as a final segmentation of the current video frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2019Publication date: January 23, 2020Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Anthony Rhodes, Manan Goel
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Publication number: 20200026954Abstract: An apparatus, method, system and computer readable medium for video tracking. An exemplar crop is selected to be tracked in an initial frame of a video. Bayesian optimization is applied with each subsequent frame of the video by building a surrogate model of an objective function using Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) based on similarity scores of candidate crops collected from a search space in a current frame of the video. A next candidate crop in the search space is determined using an acquisition function. The next candidate crop is compared to the exemplar crop using a Siamese neural network. Comparisons of new candidate crops to the exemplar crop are made using the Siamese neural network until the exemplar crop has been found in the current frame. The new candidate crops are selected based on an updated surrogate model.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2019Publication date: January 23, 2020Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Anthony Rhodes, Manan Goel
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Patent number: 10380877Abstract: The present invention relates to a community security system capable of monitoring multiple, generally adjacent, consecutive private security areas to confirm human activity and engage sensory alerts. The community security system includes at least two private security areas having the capability of being networked together to enable information sharing. Each private security area is monitored by a private security system and contains one or more detection devices for monitoring and detecting activity occurring within the boundaries of the private security area. Information detected by detection devices within the private security areas can then communicate with other detection devices within the private security area or with the community security system to confirm activity, track activity across adjacent boundaries, engage sensory alerts and notify community members or authorities, as needed.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2015Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: Overview Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Paul Davies, Scott Anthony Rhodes
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Patent number: 10242561Abstract: A security detection device and system for reducing false triggers is provided. The security detection device is a corner mount devices that may be mounted on the outside corners of building and structures. The security detection device may further communicate via a communications data network with other security detection devices to a community server to create a shared community alarm system.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2018Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: Overview Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Paul Davies, Scott Anthony Rhodes
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Publication number: 20190043520Abstract: A mechanism is described for facilitating wind detection and wind noise reduction in computing environments according to one embodiment. An apparatus of embodiments, as described herein, includes wind detection logic to detect wind associated with the apparatus including a wearable computing device, wherein the wind is detected based on samples from multiple microphones and extraction and use of multiple features including spectral sub-band centroid (SSC) features and coherence features; and decision and execution logic to reduce wind noise associated with the detected wind.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2018Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicant: Intel CorporationInventors: Swarnendu Kar, Anthony Rhodes
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Publication number: 20180211301Abstract: A system is provided that includes a computer implemented method for the automated purchasing of a security system having a plurality of security equipment components for use and installation on a unique geo-coordinate referenced location (i.e., a property). The system also includes a computer implemented method for installing the security equipment on the property that was purchased using the automated purchasing system.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2016Publication date: July 26, 2018Inventors: Christopher Paul Davies, Scott Anthony Rhodes
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Publication number: 20170243472Abstract: The present invention relates to a community security system capable of monitoring multiple, generally adjacent, consecutive private security areas to confirm human activity and engage sensory alerts. The community security system includes at least two private security areas having the capability of being networked together to enable information sharing. Each private security area is monitored by a private security system and contains one or more detection devices for monitoring and detecting activity occurring within the boundaries of the private security area. Information detected by detection devices within the private security areas can then communicate with other detection devices within the private security area or with the community security system to confirm activity, track activity across adjacent boundaries, engage sensory alerts and notify community members or authorities, as needed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2015Publication date: August 24, 2017Inventors: Christopher Paul Davies, Scott Anthony Rhodes
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Patent number: 8585058Abstract: A leaf seal for sealing a shaft rotating about an axis, in particular in a gas turbine, includes a multiplicity of spaced-apart leaves (26) which are arranged in a concentric circle around the axis and are fixed in their position by welded connections produced by electron beam welding, the leaves (26), with their surfaces, being oriented essentially parallel to the axis. The welded connections of the leaves are improved by the leaves (26) being designed in such a way and being arranged in the leaf seal in such a way that they abut against one another at the side edges directly or via intermediate spacers (27) along at least one contact line (36) extending over a plurality of leaves (26), and by the welded connections being designed as welds directed along the at least one contact line (36) and oriented in axial direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2006Date of Patent: November 19, 2013Assignee: ALSTOM Technology Ltd.Inventors: Nigel Anthony Rhodes, Ernst Vogt
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Patent number: 8220802Abstract: A leaf seal for sealing a shaft rotating about an axis, in particular in a gas turbine, includes a plurality of spaced-apart leaves arranged in a concentric circle around the axis and fixed in position by brazing, the leaves having surfaces oriented essentially parallel to the axis. The leaves are brazed to one another via intermediate spacers made of a brazing foil, so that a brazed joint is produced by brazing alloy from the brazing foils. The brazing temperature may be set to an optimum value just above the solidus temperature of the brazing foil, at which partial melting of the brazing foil occurs and penetration of liquid brazing alloy into the gap between the leaves is avoided.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2006Date of Patent: July 17, 2012Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd.Inventors: Nigel Anthony Rhodes, Matthias Hoebel, Walter Brehm, Alexander Schnell
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Patent number: 7828297Abstract: A leaf seal for sealing a shaft rotating about an axis, in particular in a gas turbine, includes a plurality of spaced-apart leaves disposed in a concentric circle around the axis and fixed in position. Each of the leaves includes a surface oriented essentially parallel to the axis and an integrally formed element configured to position and retain the leaves in the leaf seal.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2007Date of Patent: November 9, 2010Assignee: Alstom Technology Ltd.Inventors: Matthias Hoebel, Nigel Anthony Rhodes, Ian James Summerside
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Patent number: 7743498Abstract: A method of processing seals (20), like leaf seals, in which seals (20) an annular gap, formed between two coaxial, cylindrical surfaces, is sealed off in the axial direction by a multiplicity of individual, thin sealing elements (22; 22a, b) which, with an orientation deviating from the radial direction, extend transversely through the gap and are fixed at their end assigned to the one cylindrical surface and bear loosely with the other, free end against the other cylindrical surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2006Date of Patent: June 29, 2010Assignee: ALSTOM Technology Ltd.Inventor: Nigel Anthony Rhodes
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Patent number: 7487588Abstract: In a process for producing leaves (20, 20?) for a leaf seal, in particular as a seal for a gas turbine, which leaves (20, 20?) are laterally delimited by a peripheral edge contour and have regions of different thicknesses (d1, d2), a simplification, without sacrificing precision, is achieved by virtue of the edge contour of the leaves (20, 20?) being cut out of a metal sheet (28) by an etching process and the regions of different thicknesses (d1, d2) also being produced simultaneously as part of the etching process.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2006Date of Patent: February 10, 2009Assignee: ALSTOM Technology Ltd.Inventors: Simon Ian Hogg, Nigel Anthony Rhodes, Erwin Schoenfeld
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Patent number: 7181123Abstract: The invention provides a video security system for monitoring a plurality of locations simultaneously. In one embodiment, the system includes a text insertion means connected between a video camera and monitor, a control means connected to the text insertion means, and a playback means operatively associated with the text insertion means and control means. Other embodiments include a video camera substitution system having a fixed video camera and a pan-tilt video camera and a video recorder substitution system having a plurality of alternate VRDs. In another embodiment, the system includes a programmable equalizer having a plurality of video input devices, a video output receiver, a switch connected between the input devices and receiver, a variable equalizer connected between the switch and receiver, and a controller storing line loss parameters for each input device, thereby providing equalization among a plurality of video cameras, monitors, and video signal recording devices.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2003Date of Patent: February 20, 2007Inventors: Scott Anthony Rhodes, Andrew William Jackson