Patents by Inventor Bao Pham

Bao Pham 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).

  • PLATFORM FOR VISUAL SYNTHESIS OF GENOMIC, MICROBIOME, AND METABOLOME DATA
    Publication number: 20170132357
    Abstract: Described are platforms, systems, media, and methods for providing a biologic information visual synthesis application, the biologic information including one or more of: genome data, microbiome data, and metabolome data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: Suzanne Brewerton, Bryan Coon, Chao Xie, Rafael Zuniga, Jhalley de Castro, Shibu Yooseph, Weizhong Li, Ryan Ulaszek, Niels Klitgord, Zhenxuan Yeo, Fabi Mulawadi, Aaron Friedman, Stephen Terrell, Adrianto Wirawan, Korkut Gule, Erhan Saygi, Andreas Hadimulyono, Yong Heng Tan, Thomas Sisk, Alexey Volochenko, Sean Blair, Aik Meng Ang, Kian Yong Lim, Daniel Zhang, Dmitry Bezyazychnyy, Qiang Wang, Xiaohui Liu, Ream Lim, Nikita Veshkurtsev, Marie Wong, Jason Piper, Miao Sun, Matthew Cloney, Bao Pham, Yaron Turpaz
  • Method for image background detection and removal
    Publication number: 20060274376
    Abstract: A method for photocopying an original color document reduces the amount of color in the resulting photocopy. This is accomplished by scanning bands of the original document to create image bands, detecting a background color in one or more margins of the document that are within the scanned image bands, determining a stretch factor based on the color in the margins, and then scaling pixel values of the pixels by the stretch factor. The stretch factor may be established in one space, e.g., luminance space, and the scaling may be performed in another space, e.g., RGB, though this is not an absolute requirement. A device capable of performing the foregoing thereby reduces the amount of color ink or color toner consumed when the color background of an original document is not needed in the photocopy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2005
    Publication date: December 7, 2006
    Inventors: James Bailey, Bao Pham
  • Method and apparatus for inhibiting a selected IDE command
    Patent number: 6823419
    Abstract: An interface circuit replaces a selected IDE command received from a host computer with an invalid command and routes the invalid command to a data storage device. In this manner, the interface circuit provides convenient, cost-effective technique for preventing a selected IDE command sent by the host computer from reaching the data storage device. Moreover, by replacing the selected command with an invalid command, rather than merely blocking the selected command, the data storage device can respond with an error message rather than leaving the data storage device and the IDE bus in a non-deterministic state that might require user intervention. The interface circuit is particularly well-suited for preventing a host computer from writing to an IDE hard disk drive in a gaming machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2004
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Charles R. Berg, Bao Pham
  • Method and apparatus for inhibiting a selected IDE command
    Publication number: 20040054840
    Abstract: An interface circuit replaces a selected IDE command received from a host computer with an invalid command and routes the invalid command to a data storage device. In this manner, the interface circuit provides convenient, cost-effective technique for preventing a selected IDE command sent by the host computer from reaching the data storage device. Moreover, by replacing the selected command with an invalid command, rather than merely blocking the selected command, the data storage device can respond with an error message rather than leaving the data storage device and the IDE bus in a non-deterministic state that might require user intervention. The interface circuit is particularly well-suited for preventing a host computer from writing to an IDE hard disk drive in a gaming machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Applicant: IGT
    Inventors: Charles R. Berg, Bao Pham
  • Method and apparatus for inhibiting a selected IDE command
    Patent number: 6629184
    Abstract: An interface circuit replaces a selected IDE command received from a host computer with an invalid command and routes the invalid command to a data storage device. In this manner, the interface circuit provides convenient, cost-effective technique for preventing a selected IDE command sent by the host computer from reaching the data storage device. Moreover, by replacing the selected command with an invalid command, rather than merely blocking the selected command, the data storage device can respond with an error message rather than leaving the data storage device and the IDE bus in a non-deterministic state that might require user intervention. The interface circuit is particularly well-suited for preventing a host computer from writing to an IDE hard disk drive in a gaming machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Charles R. Berg, Bao Pham