Patents by Inventor Audrey Kathleen Hennessey

Audrey Kathleen Hennessey 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).

  • Apparatus and method for automatic knowlege-based object identification
    Patent number: 6014461
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for automatic knowledge-based object or anomaly classification is provided by capturing a pixel map of an image and from that generating high level descriptors of the object or anomaly such as size, shape, color and sharpness. These descriptors are compared with sets of descriptors in a knowledge-base to classify the object or anomaly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2000
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Audrey Kathleen Hennessey, YouLing Lin, Veera V. S. Khaja, Ramakrishna Pattikonda, Rajasekar Reddy, Huitian Lu, Ramachandra Katragadda