Patents by Inventor Benjamin D. Singer
Benjamin D. Singer 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: 7715045Abstract: A method includes scanning a page of a paper document to generate a first digital page image. The method further includes obtaining a second digital page image which corresponds to a second page. The method also includes comparing the first digital page image pixel-by-pixel with the second digital page image to generate a score that indicates a degree to which the first digital page image differs from the second digital page image.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2006Date of Patent: May 11, 2010Assignee: Pitney Bowes Inc.Inventors: John W. Sussmeier, Robert A. Cordery, Andrei Obrea, Frederick W. Ryan, Jr., Easwaran Nambudiri, Benjamin D. Singer
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Patent number: 7559660Abstract: A board that hides information in a manner that only certain authorized personnel may change the information and other authorized personnel may view the information. This invention accomplishes the foregoing by placing a locked panel of translucent material over certain information written on the board that may only be changed by an authorized individual by opening the lock. A panel of opaque material is placed over the translucent material in a manner that certain information written on the board will be revealed when authorized personnel remove the opaque material or cause the opaque material to be transparent. The translucent material may be removed by activating a switch or entering a code.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2005Date of Patent: July 14, 2009Assignee: Pitney Bowes Inc.Inventors: G. Jonathan Wolfman, Benjamin D Singer, Ronald P. Sansone
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Publication number: 20080294457Abstract: According to some embodiments, a system and a method are provided to receive a real-time medical entry from a medical professional where the medical entry comprises one or more medical terms, to automatically compare the one or more medical terms with a plurality of data records, each data record associated with a billing code, and to select a coding term if one of the one or more medical terms matches the plurality of data records.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2007Publication date: November 27, 2008Inventors: Robert A. Cordery, Easwaran Nambudiri, Andrei Obrea, Frederick W. Ryan, JR., Benjamin D. Singer, John W. Sussmeier
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Publication number: 20080144055Abstract: A method includes scanning a page of a paper document to generate a first digital page image. The method further includes obtaining a second digital page image which corresponds to a second page. The method also includes comparing the first digital page image pixel-by-pixel with the second digital page image to generate a score that indicates a degree to which the first digital page image differs from the second digital page image.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2006Publication date: June 19, 2008Inventors: John W. Sussmeier, Robert A. Cordery, Andrei Obrea, Frederick W. Ryan, Easwaran Nambudiri, Benjamin D. Singer
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Publication number: 20080077443Abstract: A method and system of processing medical records includes providing an image of a medical record on a screen and inputting a code associated with a portion of the medical record. A region of the medical record is selected that supports the code and the selected region of said medical record is visibly marked and associated with the code. The code and associated selected region of the medical record are stored for subsequent retrieval. The method and system can also enable opening the medical record and displaying at least one code associated with the medical record and displaying the stored selected region of the medical record associated with the code. Plural codes may be selected for a medical record with each code being associated with at least one of a plurality of selected regions of the medical record.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2006Publication date: March 27, 2008Inventor: Benjamin D. Singer
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Publication number: 20080059212Abstract: A method includes assigning a respective document tracking identifier to each of a plurality of documents. The documents are required for a college admission application. The user is allowed to register, with a central computer, as an applicant for college admissions in connection with the college admission application. The document tracking identifiers are associated with the user. It is detected whether or not the documents are handled by a document delivery service. A report is made to the user, via the central computer, as to at least some data obtained from the detecting step.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2006Publication date: March 6, 2008Inventors: Andrei Obrea, Frederick W. Ryan, Robert A. Cordery, Easwaran Nambudiri, Benjamin D. Singer, John W. Sussmeier
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Patent number: 6827444Abstract: A wavefront aberration of an eye is determined, e.g., in real time. The eye is illuminated, and the light reflected from the retina is converted into spots with a device such as a Hartmann-Shack detector. The displacement of each spot from where it would be in the absence of aberration allows calculation of the aberration. Each spot is located by an iterative technique in which a corresponding centroid is located in a box drawn on the image data, a smaller box is defined around the centroid, the centroid is located in the smaller box, and so on. The wavefront aberration is calculated from the centroid locations by using a matrix in which unusable data can be eliminated simply by eliminating rows of the matrix. Aberrations for different pupil sizes are handled in data taken for a single pupil size by renormalization.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2002Date of Patent: December 7, 2004Assignee: University of RochesterInventors: David R. Williams, William J. Vaughn, Benjamin D. Singer, Heidi Hofer, Geun-Young Yoon, Pablo Artal, Juan Luis Arag{dot over (o)}n, Pedro Prieto, Fernando Vargas
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Publication number: 20030086063Abstract: A wavefront aberration of an eye is determined, e.g., in real time. The eye is illuminated, and the light reflected from the retina is converted into spots with a device such as a Hartmann-Shack detector. The displacement of each spot from where it would be in the absence of aberration allows calculation of the aberration. Each spot is located by an iterative technique in which a corresponding centroid is located in a box drawn on the image data, a smaller box is defined around the centroid, the centroid is located in the smaller box, and so on. The wavefront aberration is calculated from the centroid locations by using a matrix in which unusable data can be eliminated simply by eliminating rows of the matrix. Aberrations for different pupil sizes are handled in data taken for a single pupil size by renormalization.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2002Publication date: May 8, 2003Inventors: David R. Williams, William J. Vaughn, Benjamin D. Singer, Heidi Hofer, Geun-Young Yoon, Pablo Artal, Juan Luis Aragon, Pedro Prieto, Fernando Vargas
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Patent number: 6299311Abstract: A wavefront aberration of an eye is determined, e.g., in real time. The eye is illuminated, and the light reflected from the retina is converted into spots with a device such as a Hartmann-Shack detector. The displacement of each spot from where it would be in the absence of aberration allows calculation of the aberration. Each spot is located by an iterative technique in which a corresponding centroid is located in a box drawn on the image data, a smaller box is defined around the centroid, the centroid is located in the smaller box, and so on. The wavefront aberration is calculated from the centroid locations by using a matrix in which unusable data can be eliminated simply by eliminating rows of the matrix. Aberrations for different pupil sizes are handled in data taken for a single pupil size by renormalization.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2000Date of Patent: October 9, 2001Assignee: University of RochesterInventors: David R. Williams, William J. Vaughn, Benjamin D. Singer, Heidi Hofer, Geun-Young Yoon
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Patent number: 6199986Abstract: A wavefront aberration of an eye is determined, e.g., in real time. The eye is illuminated, and the light reflected from the retina is converted into spots with a device such as a Hartmann-Shack detector. The displacement of each spot from where it would be in the absence of aberration allows calculation of the aberration. Each spot is located by an iterative technique in which a corresponding centroid is located in a box drawn on the image data, a smaller box is defined around the centroid, the centroid is located in the smaller box, and so on. The wavefront aberration is calculated from the centroid locations by using a matrix in which unusable data can be eliminated simply by eliminating rows of the matrix. Aberrations for different pupil sizes are handled in data taken for a single pupil size by renormalization.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 1999Date of Patent: March 13, 2001Assignee: University of RochesterInventors: David R. Williams, William J. Vaughn, Benjamin D. Singer, Heidi Hofer, Geun-Young Yoon, Pablo Artal, Juan Luis Arag{dot over (o)}n, Pedro Prieto, Fernando Vargas