Patents by Inventor Cheryl Ann Blain

Cheryl Ann Blain 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: 9507893
    Abstract: System and method for extraction and processing of river bank coordinates from imagery, generation of an unstructured mesh of the river using river bank positions and available or synthetic bathymetry, application of upstream and downstream boundary forcing data, contingencies for handling missing data, and configuration of multiple realizations of the developed river model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Cheryl Ann Blain, Robert S. Linzell, Alan D. Weidemann, Paul E. Lyon
  • Patent number: 9465581
    Abstract: System and method for automatically and regularly predicting water level and currents in coastal areas, without operator intervention. The system and method can enable automated operational forecasts at regular time intervals without operator intervention by using a grid and a computer forecast model that allows accurate prediction of tidal heights and currents in complex shoreline and bathymetry regions, single or parallel processing capability, optimal available processor assignment based on the size of computing domain, standard and other tidal database forcing in the open boundary, missing data gap-filling, and wind, bathymetry, and model-derived boundary condition model integration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Yifei Philip Chu, Cheryl Ann Blain, Robert S Linzell
  • Patent number: 9323795
    Abstract: A system and method for converting structured data to unstructured or structured data, the system and method receiving processing options in a flexible format and a reader selection, executing the reader selection to read data, computing a date time group to iterate through observed and/or modeled data, bilinearly interpolating the structured data to create an unstructured or structured finite element mesh, linearly interpolating data in time if necessary, and storing the populated grid on a computer-readable medium in a format compatible with a target numerical model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Cheryl Ann Blain, Robert S. Linzell, Brett D. Estrade
  • Patent number: 9008441
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for creating an ordered set of boundary data by transforming data from remotely sensed imagery of shorelines is provided. A feature data set and an edge data set are transformed into a set of 3-point boundary segments having a specific head and tail point and the segments are ordered from tail to head in a clockwise or counterclockwise manner relative to the water. Once the 3-point segments are created they are easily linked together into larger segments. These large multi-point segments in turn are linked together to create a closed loop in a predetermined direction, for example, but not limited to, the shorelines for rivers or coastal areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Cheryl Ann Blain, Carolus M. Cobb, Alan D. Weidemann
  • Publication number: 20140257776
    Abstract: System and method for automatically and regularly predicting water level and currents in coastal areas, without operator intervention. The system and method can enable automated operational forecasts at regular time intervals without operator intervention by using a grid and a computer forecast model that allows accurate prediction of tidal heights and currents in complex shoreline and bathymetry regions, single or parallel processing capability, optimal available processor assignment based on the size of computing domain, standard and other tidal database forcing in the open boundary, missing data gap-filling, and wind, bathymetry, and model-derived boundary condition model integration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Inventors: Yifei Philip Chu, Cheryl Ann Blain, Robert S Linzell
  • Patent number: 8768663
    Abstract: System and method for automatically and regularly predicting water level and currents in coastal areas, without operator intervention. The system and method can enable, automated operational forecasts at regular time intervals without operator intervention by using a grid and a computer forecast model that allows accurate prediction of tidal heights and currents in complex shoreline and bathymetry regions, single or parallel processing capability, optimal available processor assignment based on the size of computing domain, standard and other tidal database forcing in the open boundary, missing data gap-filling, and wind, bathymetry, and model-derived boundary condition model integration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Yifei Philip Chu, Cheryl Ann Blain, Robert S Linzell
  • Publication number: 20140164438
    Abstract: A system and method for converting structured data to unstructured or structured data, the system and method receiving processing options in a flexible format and a reader selection, executing the reader selection to read data, computing a date time group to iterate through observed and/or modeled data, bilinearly interpolating the structured data to create an unstructured or structured finite element mesh, linearly interpolating data in time if necessary, and storing the populated grid on a computer-readable medium in a format compatible with a target numerical model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Cheryl Ann Blain, Robert S. Linzell, Brett D. Estrade
  • Publication number: 20140032191
    Abstract: System and method for extraction and processing of river bank coordinates from imagery, generation of an unstructured mesh of the river using river bank positions and available or synthetic bathymetry, application of upstream and downstream boundary forcing data, contingencies for handling missing data, and configuration of multiple realizations of the developed river model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Cheryl Ann Blain, Robert S. Linzell, Alan D. Weidemann, Paul E. Lyon
  • Publication number: 20130330010
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for creating an ordered set of boundary data by transforming data from remotely sensed imagery of shorelines is provided. A feature data set and an edge data set are transformed into a set of 3-point boundary segments having a specific head and tail point and the segments are ordered from tail to head in a clockwise or counterclockwise manner relative to the water. Once the 3-point segments are created they are easily linked together into larger segments. These large multi-point segments in turn are linked together to create a closed loop in a predetermined direction, for example, but not limited to, the shorelines for rivers or coastal areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2013
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Cheryl Ann Blain, Carolus M. Cobb, Alan D. Weidemann
  • Publication number: 20130039574
    Abstract: System and method for detecting a smooth/rough boundary from an aerial image to solve the problem of isolating image features without access to the subject of the image. The system and method convert the image to gray scale, edge pad the converted image, calculate an image entropy based on a distribution of local entropy across the padded, converted image, threshold the image entropy to binarize the padded, converted image, clean noise, and close defects and voids by mathematical morphologically opening and closing the binarized image, and detect the smooth/rough boundary of the opened/closed binarized image as a gradient across the pixels of the opened/closed binarized image resulting in a single pixel width edge. The single pixel width edge can be, for example, provided to numerical prediction models and computer games.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Inventors: James P. McKay, Cheryl Ann Blain, Robert S. Linzell