Patents by Inventor Ben Burns

Ben Burns 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: 11954893
    Abstract: The technology described herein is directed to systems, methods, and software for indexing video. In an implementation, a method comprises identifying one or more regions of interest around target content in a frame of the video. Further, the method includes identifying, in a portion of the frame outside a region of interest, potentially empty regions adjacent to the region of interest. The method continues with identifying at least one empty region of the potentially empty regions that satisfies one or more criteria and classifying at least the one empty region as a negative sample of the target content. In some implementations, the negative sample of the target content in a set of negative samples of the target content, with which to train a machine learning model employed to identify instances of the target content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Oron Nir, Maria Zontak, Tucker Cunningham Burns, Apar Singhal, Lei Zhang, Irit Ofer, Avner Levi, Haim Sabo, Ika Bar-Menachem, Eylon Ami, Ella Ben Tov, Anika Zaman
  • Patent number: 9857191
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determination of an access path are disclosed. The access path may include any drivable route that is within a site, and is often, but not necessarily, exclusive of roads in a road network external to the site. In some cases, access paths may include a set of streets between two or more sites without necessarily including a drivable path within a site. Further, the systems and methods may calculate or determine minimum cost routes that include the access path. In some cases, the calculated route may be the minimum cost route that includes the access path, but not necessarily a minimum cost route to a site. In other words, in some cases, the selection of an access path serves as a constraint that supersedes the calculation of a minimum cost route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Telogis, Inc.
    Inventors: Ralph Mason, Mark Fryer, Michael Fried, Jeffrey Fiore, Rick Turek, Brad Llewellyn, Peter Lear, Victor Rehorst, Steven Ashley, Ben Burns
  • Publication number: 20160334236
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determination of an access path are disclosed. The access path may include any drivable route that is within a site, and is often, but not necessarily, exclusive of roads in a road network external to the site. In some cases, access paths may include a set of streets between two or more sites without necessarily including a drivable path within a site. Further, the systems and methods may calculate or determine minimum cost routes that include the access path. In some cases, the calculated route may be the minimum cost route that includes the access path, but not necessarily a minimum cost route to a site. In other words, in some cases, the selection of an access path serves as a constraint that supersedes the calculation of a minimum cost route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Inventors: Ralph Mason, Mark Fryer, Michael Fried, Jeffrey Fiore, Rick Turek, Brad Llewellyn, Peter Lear, Victor Rehorst, Steven Ashley, Ben Burns
  • Publication number: 20160053917
    Abstract: A conduit hanger includes a base. At least one carrier extends from the base. The carrier(s) define a retaining formation in which a respective conduit can be received. The base and the carrier(s) are formed from at least one flat sheet of material. At least one obstruction member is mounted on one of the base and the, or each respective, carrier and is displaceable between an inoperative position in which the conduit can be removed from the respective carrier and an operative position in which the conduit is retained in the respective carrier with the obstruction member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: Darcien Kean, Ben Burns
  • Publication number: 20150338226
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determination of an access path are disclosed. The access path may include any drivable route that is within a site, and is often, but not necessarily, exclusive of roads in a road network external to the site. In some cases, access paths may include a set of streets between two or more sites without necessarily including a drivable path within a site. Further, the systems and methods may calculate or determine minimum cost routes that include the access path. In some cases, the calculated route may be the minimum cost route that includes the access path, but not necessarily a minimum cost route to a site. In other words, in some cases, the selection of an access path serves as a constraint that supersedes the calculation of a minimum cost route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Applicant: Telogis, Inc.
    Inventors: Ralph Mason, Mark Fryer, Michael Fried, Jeffrey Fiore, Rick Turek, Brad Llewellyn, Peter Lear, Victor Rehorst, Steven Ashley, Ben Burns