Patents by Inventor Charles Eugene Cummins
Charles Eugene Cummins 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: 11593127Abstract: In one or more embodiments, a system generates a navigable interface for traversing sets of content based on system-determined relationships between the sets of content. The system uses a trained machine learning model to determine characteristics, such as layout, for sets of content. The characteristics are mapped to a content type. The system organizes the sets of content, based on respective content type, into a set of pages of a multipage navigable interface. Furthermore, the system selects navigational relationships between the sets of content based on respective content type. The navigational relationships are implemented via interface elements that allow for navigation between the pages of the navigable interface including corresponding sets of content.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2020Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Oracle Interational CorporationInventors: Charles Eugene Cummins, Christian David Straub, Liza Lyons Broadbent, Vladislav Oupickÿ, Jan Pe{hacek over (s)}ka, Jan Plihal
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Publication number: 20210081222Abstract: In one or more embodiments, a system generates a navigable interface for traversing sets of content based on system-determined relationships between the sets of content. The system uses a trained machine learning model to determine characteristics, such as layout, for sets of content. The characteristics are mapped to a content type. The system organizes the sets of content, based on respective content type, into a set of pages of a multipage navigable interface. Furthermore, the system selects navigational relationships between the sets of content based on respective content type. The navigational relationships are implemented via interface elements that allow for navigation between the pages of the navigable interface including corresponding sets of content.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2020Publication date: March 18, 2021Applicant: Oracle International CorporationInventors: Charles Eugene Cummins, Christian David Straub, Liza Lyons Broadbent, Vladislav Oupický, Jan Pe{hacek over (s)}ka, Jan Plihal
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Patent number: 9927949Abstract: A computing device can utilize a recognition mode wherein an interface utilizes graphical elements, such as virtual fireflies or other such elements, to indicate objects that are recognized or identified. As objects are recognized, fireflies perform one or more specified actions to indicate recognition. A ribbon or other user-selectable icon is displayed indicates a specific action that the device can perform with respect to the respective object. As additional objects are recognized, additional ribbons are created and older ribbons can be moved off screen and stored for subsequent retrieval or search. The fireflies disperse when the objects are no longer represented in captured sensor data, and can be animated to move towards representations of new objects as features of those objects are identified as potential object features, in order to communicate a level of recognition for a current scene or environment.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2013Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Timothy Thomas Gray, Marc Anthony Salazar, Steven Michael Sommer, Charles Eugene Cummins, Sean Anthony Rooney, Bryan Todd Agnetta, Jae Pum Park, Richard Leigh Mains, Suzan Marashi
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Patent number: 9905033Abstract: A computing device can include a recognition mode interface utilizing graphical elements, such as virtual fireflies, to indicate recognized or identified objects. The fireflies can be animated to move across a display, and the fireflies can create bounding boxes around visual representations of objects as the objects are recognized. In some cases, the object might be of a type that has specific meaning or information to be conveyed to a user. In such cases, the fireflies might be displayed with a particular size, shape, or color to convey that information. The fireflies also can be configured to form shapes or patterns in order to convey other types of information to a user, such as where audio is being recognized, light is sufficient for image capture, and the like. Other types of information can be conveyed as well via altering characteristics of the fireflies.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2013Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Timothy Thomas Gray, Charles Eugene Cummins, Angela Kathleen Warren, Marc Anthony Salazar, Suzan Marashi, Steven Michael Sommer, Russell Edward Glaser, Forrest Elliott, Tito Pagan
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Patent number: 9865033Abstract: The display of images, such as panoramic images, in a limited display space can be aided through the use of motion-based control, whereby a user can rotate and/or translate a computing device in order to view different portions of the image, including translating or zooming within the image. Sensors can be used to determine the motion for adjusting the display. The same or other sensors can also assist a user in capturing such an image. For example, a compass can determine the relative orientation of the device and a gyroscope can determine rotation of the device, to determine an appropriate path of motion for the capture and any deviation from that path. The user can be provided with information enabling the user to follow the path with an appropriate device orientation.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2014Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Ario Jafarzadeh, Vivek Shah, Charles Eugene Cummins, Nicholas Ryan Gilmour, John Matthew Nance, Mihir Kumar Choudhary, Nikhil Raghu Varma
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Patent number: 9671941Abstract: A computing device can utilize a recognition mode wherein an interface utilizes graphical elements, such as virtual fireflies, to indicate recognized or identified objects. Fireflies can be displayed near an input element to indicate that a recognition mode is available. When a user selects the input element, the fireflies can appear to emanate from the input element and disperse across the display screen. As objects are recognized, fireflies can create bounding boxes around those objects, or otherwise appear proximate those objects, to indicate recognition. The fireflies can again disperse as the objects fall out of view, and can begin moving towards new objects as features of those objects are identified as potential object features. A subsequent selection of the input element to exit recognition mode can cause the fireflies to appear to retreat to their original location in, or near, the input element.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2013Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Timothy Thomas Gray, Charles Eugene Cummins, Russell Edward Glaser, Tito Pagan, Steven Michael Sommer, Brian Peter Kralyevich, Angela Kathleen Warren, Marc Anthony Salazar, Suzan Marashi
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Patent number: 9294670Abstract: The display of images, such as lenticular images, in a limited display space can be aided through the use of motion-based control, whereby a user can rotate and/or translate a computing device in order to cause different views of a lenticular image to be displayed. Sensors can be used to determine the motion in order to select the appropriate view to display. Approaches can further assist the user in creating lenticular images. The user can specify various configurations in which to display different views in a lenticular. If the user is capturing the images, one or more previously-acquired images can be used as a guide to help the user to align the images. Various processing can be performed to cause the individual views of the lenticular to match as closely as possible in factors such as alignment, brightness, and color range, among other such options.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2014Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Ario Jafarzadeh, Charles Eugene Cummins, Nicholas Ryan Gilmour, John Matthew Nance, Mihir Kumar Choudhary, Vivek Shah
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Publication number: 20150215526Abstract: The display of images, such as lenticular images, in a limited display space can be aided through the use of motion-based control, whereby a user can rotate and/or translate a computing device in order to cause different views of a lenticular image to be displayed. Sensors can be used to determine the motion in order to select the appropriate view to display. Approaches can further assist the user in creating lenticular images. The user can specify various configurations in which to display different views in a lenticular. If the user is capturing the images, one or more previously-acquired images can be used as a guide to help the user to align the images. Various processing can be performed to cause the individual views of the lenticular to match as closely as possible in factors such as alignment, brightness, and color range, among other such options.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2014Publication date: July 30, 2015Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: ARIO JAFARZADEH, Charles Eugene Cummins, Nicholas Ryan Gilmour, John Matthew Nance, Mihir Kumar Choudhary, Vivek Shah
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Publication number: 20150215532Abstract: The display of images, such as panoramic images, in a limited display space can be aided through the use of motion-based control, whereby a user can rotate and/or translate a computing device in order to view different portions of the image, including translating or zooming within the image. Sensors can be used to determine the motion for adjusting the display. The same or other sensors can also assist a user in capturing such an image. For example, a compass can determine the relative orientation of the device and a gyroscope can determine rotation of the device, to determine an appropriate path of motion for the capture and any deviation from that path. The user can be provided with information enabling the user to follow the path with an appropriate device orientation.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2014Publication date: July 30, 2015Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Ario Jafarzadeh, Nikhil Raghu Varma, Charles Eugene Cummins, Nicholas Ryan Gilmour, John Matthew Nance, Mihir Kumar Choudhary, Vivek Shah
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Publication number: 20150213784Abstract: The display of images, such as lenticular images, in a limited display space can be aided through the use of motion-based control, whereby a user can rotate and/or translate a computing device in order to cause different views of a lenticular image to be displayed. Sensors can be used to determine the motion in order to select the appropriate view to display. Approaches can further assist the user in creating lenticular images. The user can specify various configurations in which to display different views in a lenticular. If the user is capturing the images, one or more previously-acquired images can be used as a guide to help the user to align the images. Various processing can be performed to cause the individual views of the lenticular to match as closely as possible in factors such as alignment, brightness, and color range, among other such options.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2014Publication date: July 30, 2015Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: ARIO JAFARZADEH, Charles Eugene Cummins, Nicholas Ryan Gilmour, John Matthew Nance, Mihir Kumar Choudhary, Vivek Shah
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Publication number: 20140337800Abstract: A computing device can utilize a recognition mode wherein an interface utilizes graphical elements, such as virtual fireflies or other such elements, to indicate objects that are recognized or identified. As objects are recognized, fireflies perform one or more specified actions to indicate recognition. A ribbon or other user-selectable icon is displayed indicates a specific action that the device can perform with respect to the respective object. As additional objects are recognized, additional ribbons are created and older ribbons can be moved off screen and stored for subsequent retrieval or search. The fireflies disperse when the objects are no longer represented in captured sensor data, and can be animated to move towards representations of new objects as features of those objects are identified as potential object features, in order to communicate a level of recognition for a current scene or environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2013Publication date: November 13, 2014Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Timothy Thomas Gray, Gray Anthony Salazar, Steven Steven Sommer, Charles Eugene Cummins, Sean Anthony Rooney, Bryan Todd Agnetta, Jae Pum Park, Richard Leigh Mains, Suzan Marashi