Patents by Inventor Christopher Andrews

Christopher Andrews 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).

  • Publication number: 20230308675
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium of a device storing computer-executable instructions is provided. When the instructions are executed by one or more processors of the device, the instructions cause the device to: decode a merge subblock flag that specifies whether subblock-based inter prediction parameters for a coding unit are inferred from neighboring blocks and that determines whether a motion vector difference merge flag and a combination flag are to be decoded; determine a value of the merge subblock flag; decode the motion vector difference merge flag after the value of the merge subblock flag is determined as being equal to zero and a value of a motion vector difference flag is determined as being equal to one; and decode the combination flag that specifies whether a combined inter-picture merge and intra-picture prediction is applied to the coding unit by using the merge subblock flag and a sequence parameter set (SPS) flag.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: KIRAN MUKESH MISRA, FRANK BOSSEN, CHRISTOPHER ANDREW SEGALL
  • Publication number: 20230303547
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a class of N-cyanopyrrolidines with activity as inhibitors of the deubiquity lating enzyme USP30, having utility in a variety of therapeutic areas, including conditions involving mitochondrial dysfunction, cancer and fibrosis: (formulae (I)(i) and (I)(ii)).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Christopher Andrew LUCKHURST, Mark Ian KEMP, Paul William THOMPSON
  • Patent number: 11767710
    Abstract: A smart door control system for securely receiving a delivery item and controlling access between an interior space and an exterior space, the system comprising a smart door with an access opening and a movable access panel which selectively blocks or permits passage through the access opening. The smart door further has a control module adapted to receive delivery data identifying one or more authorized items, and a scanning device adapted to read a delivery identifier found on the delivery item. The smart door is adapted to reveal the access opening upon the delivery item being matched with one of the authorized items. The access panel is adapted to variably control the size of the access opening in proportion to the dimensions of the delivery item. The system further comprises a user device allowing a user to remotely receive status alerts from the smart door and issue user commands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Inventor: Christopher Andrew Johnston
  • Patent number: 11765347
    Abstract: A video coding device may be configured to perform intra prediction coding according to one or more of the techniques described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Seung-Hwan Kim, Christopher Andrew Segall
  • Publication number: 20230290763
    Abstract: A hybrid-control pixel includes a TFT substrate, a TFT circuit formed on the TFT substrate, a micro-device having an integrated-circuit substrate separate and independent from the TFT substrate disposed on or over the TFT substrate, a micro-circuit electrically connected to the TFT circuit, and an LED or other device disposed on the integrated circuit or the TFT substrate. The LED can be electrically connected to the micro-circuit and the TFT circuit and the micro-circuit together control the LED.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Matthew Alexander Meitl, Christopher Andrew Bower, Ronald S. Cok, Murat Ozbas
  • Publication number: 20230283810
    Abstract: A method of encoding video data by a device is provided. Transform coefficient values associated with a chroma coding block are received. The chroma coding block is one of chroma coding blocks resulting from partitioning a chroma coding tree block and misaligned with a luma coding tree block corresponding to the chroma coding tree block and partitioned into luma coding blocks which are organized into quantization groups such that luma quantization parameters are determined for the luma coding tree block. One of the luma quantization parameters that is mapped to the chroma coding block is identified. A predictive quantization parameter is derived by using a value derived from the identified luma quantization parameter. A chroma quantization parameter is determined by adding a delta quantization parameter associated with each of the chroma coding blocks to the predictive quantization parameter. Level values are generated based on the determined chroma quantization parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: JIE ZHAO, SEUNG-HWAN KIM, KIRAN MUKESH MISRA, CHRISTOPHER ANDREW SEGALL
  • Patent number: 11745860
    Abstract: Aircraft nacelles having adjustable chines are described. An example apparatus includes a first chine rotatably coupled to a nacelle at a first location about an outer circumference of the nacelle. The first chine is rotatable relative to the nacelle about an axis of rotation. The example apparatus further includes a second chine fixedly coupled to the nacelle at a second location about the outer circumference of the nacelle. The second location is circumferentially offset from the first location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Christopher Andrew Konings
  • Patent number: 11748557
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to processing operations that generate and present personalized content suggestions to assist a user with document creation. Machine learning modeling may be trained and implemented to evolve pre-canned suggestions for document creation into highly personalized content suggestions, thereby improving the document creation process and user interface experience for users of applications/services that are utilized to create digital documents. As an example, signal data may be detected and analyzed, identifying a specific user's intent to create a digital document. Machine learning modeling may be implemented to evaluate different aspects of collected signal data and identify content from previously created documents, associated with a user account, that may be most relevant to the real-time document creation experience of the user. Personalized contextual suggestions may be presented to a user through a user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Marian Kimberley Chua, Michael Schreiber, Christopher Andrews Jung
  • Patent number: 11750805
    Abstract: Systems and methods for applying deblocking filters to reconstructed video data are disclosed. Sample values in adjacent reconstructed video blocks are modified according to multiple passes of a deblocking filter. A filtering pass may correspond to processing or constructing of all or subset of samples to be deblocked. The number of processing or constructing for each sample in a given pass may correspond to the pass index or order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Weijia Zhu, Kiran Mukesh Misra, Christopher Andrew Segall, Philip Cowan
  • Patent number: 11742450
    Abstract: An electro-optically controlled active-matrix system comprises a system substrate, row wires extending in a row direction disposed on the system substrate, a row controller providing a row electrical signal to each row wire, column light-pipes extending in a column direction disposed on the system substrate, a column controller providing a column optical signal to each column light-pipe, and pixels disposed over the system substrate. Each pixel can comprise a pixel circuit that is uniquely responsive to a row wire and to a column light-pipe, the pixel circuit receiving the row electrical signal from the row wire and receiving the column optical signal from the column light-pipe. In some embodiments, column wires carrying column electrical signals extend in a column direction over the system substrate and the pixel circuit is capacitively coupled to the row wire, the column wire, or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: X Display Company Technology Limited
    Inventors: Christopher Andrew Bower, Matthew Alexander Meitl, Robert R. Rotzoll, Ronald S. Cok
  • Patent number: 11742471
    Abstract: A method of making a surface-mountable pixel engine package comprises providing an array of spaced-apart conductive pillars and an insulating mold compound laterally disposed between the conductive pillars on a substrate together defining a planarized surface. Pixel engines comprising connection posts are printed to the conductive pillars so that each of the connection posts is in electrical contact with one of the conductive pillars. The pixel engines are tested to determine known-good pixel engines. An optically clear mold compound is provided over the planarized surface and tested pixel engines. Optically clear mold compound is adhered to a tape and the substrate is removed. The optically clear mold compound, the insulating mold compound, the conductive pillars, the optically clear mold compound, and the tested pixel engines are singulated to provide pixel packages that comprise the pixel engines and the known-good pixel engines are transferred to a reel or tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: X Display Company Technology Limited
    Inventors: Christopher Andrew Bower, Matthew Alexander Meitl, Glenn Arne Rinne, Justin Walker Brown
  • Patent number: 11730485
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for treating vascular defects are disclosed herein. One aspect of the present technology, for example, includes an occlusive device comprising a mesh having a low-profile state for intravascular delivery to the aneurysm and a deployed state, the mesh comprising a first end portion, a second end portion, and a length extending between the first and second end portions, and a first lateral edge, a second lateral edge, and a width extending between the first and second lateral edges. The mesh may have a predetermined shape in the deployed state in which (a) the mesh is curved along its width, (b) the mesh is curved along its length, and (c) the mesh has an undulating contour across at least a portion of one or both of its length or its width. The mesh is configured to be positioned within the aneurysm in the deployed state such that the mesh extends over the neck of the aneurysm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: COVIDIEN LP
    Inventors: Gregory Hamel, Patrick Quinn, Arturo Rosqueta, Stephen Sosnowski, Christopher Andrews, Hieu Dang, Dinh Nguyen, Robert Pecor, Minh Q. Dinh, Ahramahzd Tatavoosian
  • Publication number: 20230262256
    Abstract: A method of performing motion vector prediction for coding video data is disclosed. A full precision motion vector mv is determined for generating a prediction for video block in a first picture. A rounded motion vector rmv having a less precision than the full precision motion vector mv is stored. A motion vector predictor candidate is generated for a video block in a second picture from the stored motion vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Kiran Mukesh MISRA, Frank BOSSEN, Christopher Andrew SEGALL
  • Publication number: 20230261896
    Abstract: System, device, and method of multi-path wireless communication. A method includes: constructing in an electronic device of a user, a control message indicating a user command intended to be performed by a Home Automation Device (HAD) of the user; wherein the constructing includes inserting into the control message a unique Message-Identifier. The method then transmits the control message, from the electronic device of the user to the HAD, concurrently via at least two different wireless communications channels which include at least: (i) a first wireless communication channel that includes passage of traffic through the Internet, and (ii) a second wireless communication channel in which no traffic passes through the Internet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Zohar Shinar, Christopher Andrew Merck, Bradley Luke Totaro, Joao Ricardo Mattos e Silva, Marcio Granzotto Rodrigues, Natan Grando
  • Patent number: 11729385
    Abstract: A video coding device may be configured to perform video coding according to one or more of the techniques described herein. In one example, a method of partitioning video data for video coding, comprises receiving a video block including sample values, and partitioning the sample values according to the following set of partitioning modes: quadtree, horizontal or vertical symmetric binary tree, horizontal or vertical asymmetric binary tree, and horizontal or vertical triple tree.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Weijia Zhu, Christopher Andrew Segall, Kiran Mukesh Misra, Jie Zhao, Michael Horowitz
  • Patent number: 11727421
    Abstract: A system and method for managing latency of messages in an exchange system in response to removal of liquidity are disclosed. In one implementation, the system may include an exchange system, and a set of instructions to cause a processor of the exchange system to gather information on quote patterns. The monitored quote patterns are assessed against quote parameters maintained in system memory, and a latency adjustment is automatically made to delay messages from particular market participants removing liquidity in the exchange system. Market participants may be identified as aggressive market participants, and their subsequent liquidity removing orders delayed, based on predetermined quote pattern parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: CBOE EXCHANGE, INC
    Inventors: Christopher Andrew Isaacson, Eric Crampton
  • Publication number: 20230233787
    Abstract: A patient interface includes a frame assembly including connectors operatively attachable to headgear, a cushion assembly provided to the frame assembly and including a seal-forming structure structured to form a seal with the patient's nose and/or mouth, and an air delivery connector provided to the frame assembly and operatively connected to an air delivery tube for supplying the air at positive pressure along an air flow path. The cushion assembly is structured to releasably connect to the frame assembly independently of the air delivery connector. The air delivery connector is structured to releasably connect to the frame assembly independently of the cushion assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Amal Shirley AMARASINGHE, Ravikumar BALUCHAGI, Adam Francis BARLOW, Andrew James BATE, Emily Elizabeth BLANCH, David James BRAUND, Christopher Samuel CULLEN, Errol Savio Alex D'SOUZA, Bruce Richard DAVIES, Craig David EDWARDS, Christopher Andrew Wakeley GILL, Lachlan Richard GOLDSPINK, Thomas KIRBY, Kishore MARKAPURAM CHENGALVARAYAN, Holly Elizabeth MILLER, Lemmy NGA, Chia Ik TAN, Matthew Robin WELLS
  • Patent number: 11701918
    Abstract: A bicycle rim comprising a circumferential outer portion adapted to receive a tire and a spoke bed. The spoke bed may comprise a pattern of spoke attachment segments at varying tilt angles and spaced by intermediate segments. Each spoke attachment segment may comprise an inner surface, an outer surface and a spoke opening extending from the inner surface to the outer surface. The spoke opening may be sized to accommodate a spoke nipple. The spoke opening may have a central axis angled at a complex angle that is a combination of a respective camber angle and a respective crossing angle. The complex angle may be selected to achieve a respective spoke angle. The outer surface of the spoke attachment segment adjacent to the spoke opening may extend perpendicular to the central axis of the spoke opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Hed Cycling Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher Andrew Edin
  • Patent number: 11705439
    Abstract: A multi-color LED display comprises pixels, each comprising a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, and a third sub-pixel. The first sub-pixel comprises a first light-emitting diode (LED) that emits a first color of light, the second sub-pixel comprises second LEDs that emit a second color of light different from the first color of light, and the third sub-pixel comprises third LEDs that emit a third color of light different from the first color of light and different from the second color of light. The second LEDs are electrically connected in parallel and the third LEDs are electrically connected in series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: X Display Company Technology Limited
    Inventors: Matthew Alexander Meitl, Christopher Andrew Bower, Ronald S. Cok, Brook Raymond
  • Patent number: 11706437
    Abstract: A method of decoding video data by a device is provided. A merge subblock flag specifying whether subblock-based inter prediction parameters for a coding unit are inferred from neighbouring blocks is decoded. A motion vector difference merge flag is decoded if a value of the merge subblock flag is equal to zero and a value of a motion vector difference flag is equal to one. The motion vector difference merge flag specifies a prediction parameter with a motion vector difference is used, and the motion vector difference flag specifies whether a merge mode with motion vector difference is enabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Kiran Mukesh Misra, Frank Bossen, Christopher Andrew Segall