Patents by Inventor Christopher Wright

Christopher Wright 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: 20220021851
    Abstract: Examples of the disclosure relate to apparatus, methods and computer programs for enabling sub-pixel information to be determined in captured images. The apparatus can comprise means for activating at least one filter wherein the at least one filter is positioned in front of at least one image sensor. The at least one filter is configured to at least partially filter light such that the at least one filter has a spatial variation of transparency on an analogue scale across an area covered by the at least one filter. The apparatus also comprises means for detecting an image captured by the at least one image sensor; and using information relating to the spatial variation of transparency of the at least one filter to determine sub-pixel information in the captured image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventor: Christopher WRIGHT
  • Publication number: 20220018637
    Abstract: An apparatus arranged to activate luminescence in a projectile comprising: a trigger circuit arranged to cause a clay pigeon trap to launch the projectile; and a light emitting source configured to emit a flash of light in response to a signal from the trigger circuit, wherein the trigger circuit is arranged to provide a predetermined time delay in order to allow the luminescence in the projectile to be activated prior to launching.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Christopher Wright, Oliver Paris
  • Publication number: 20220008687
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising means for: obtaining a predicted breathing sequence of a user; obtaining a desired breathing phase for consuming a first media content; and causing rendering of the first media content to the user at a first time which is based, at least in part, on a predicted time in the predicted breathing sequence at which the desired breathing phase occurs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Christopher WRIGHT, Timothy BEARD, David DUFFY
  • Publication number: 20220004730
    Abstract: According to various, but not necessarily all, embodiments there is provided an apparatus comprising means for: determining at least two locations at which a user touches a device; selecting a first location and a second location from the at least two locations to define a transmission path for an acoustic signal through the user; applying an acoustic signal to the user through the first location; detecting an acoustic signal transmitted through the user at the second location; and analysing the detected acoustic signal to determine if it is indicative of transmission of the applied acoustic signal through an authorised user based on a known bioacoustic signature of the authorised user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Christopher WRIGHT, Phil CATTON, Wai LAU
  • Publication number: 20220004633
    Abstract: Examples of the disclosure can provide an apparatus for detecting malware. The apparatus can comprise means for: selecting one or more tasks to be performed by a user device during charging of the user device; enabling a power trace to be obtained wherein the power trace provides an indication of the power consumed by the user device while the one or more tasks are being performed; and enabling the power trace to be analysed to provide an indication of the presence of malware.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventor: Christopher WRIGHT
  • Publication number: 20220003720
    Abstract: According to various, but not necessarily all, embodiments there is provided an apparatus comprising means for: controlling one or more electroacoustic transducers of a device to create a standing wave having a displacement antinode at an expected location of a component of the device; receiving a signal representing sound generated by vibration of the component driven by the standing wave; causing analysis of the signal to determine whether there is a defect based on whether the signal represents a sound that would be expected to result from vibration of the component driven by the standing wave in the absence of a defect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Christopher WRIGHT, Phil CATTON, Wai LAU
  • Publication number: 20210401038
    Abstract: An electronic cigarette includes a plurality of liquid reservoirs configured to store different liquids, each of the liquid reservoirs being fluidically coupled to a heater, a memory configured to store at least one program defining which heater is activated and a duration of time for the activation, a timer configured to regulate the time during which each heater is activated, a controller configured to selectively control the activation of each heater according to the at least one program on the memory, wherein the electronic cigarette is configured to produce a vapour with variations in its composition over time during the course of a vaping session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: JT International S.A.
    Inventors: Matthew John Lawrenson, Timothy Giles Beard, Christopher Wright
  • Publication number: 20210386489
    Abstract: A surgical support system including: a surgical data generating apparatus operable to generate surgical data associated with a surgical procedure; and a data processing apparatus operable to: determine artificial intelligence (AI) assistance information using the generated surgical data; and provide the determined AI assistance information to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher WRIGHT, Matthew LAWRENSON, Bernadette ELLIOTT-BOWMAN, Taro AZUMA
  • Patent number: 11195023
    Abstract: Techniques for implementing a feature generation pipeline for machine learning are provided. In one technique, multiple jobs are executed, each of which computes a different set of feature values for a different feature of multiple features associated with videos. A feature registry is stored that lists each of the multiple features. After the jobs are executed and the feature registry is stored, a model specification is received that indicates a set of features for a model. For each feature in a subset of the set of features, a location is identified in storage where a value for said each feature is found and the value for that feature is retrieved from the location. A feature vector is created that comprises, for each feature in the set of features, the value that corresponds to that feature. The feature vector is used to train the model or as input to the model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Wright Lloyd, II, Konstantin Salomatin, Jeffrey Douglas Gee, Mahesh S. Joshi, Shivani Rao, Vladislav Tcheprasov, Gungor Polatkan, Deepak Kumar Dileep Kumar
  • Patent number: 11188213
    Abstract: Techniques for edit experience for transformation of digital content are delivered in a digital medium environment. According to various implementations, an image editor system receives edits to a digital image to transform the digital image and generate an edited image. An edit experience is then generated that is presentable to recreate the image transformation process. The image editor system outputs the edit experience to enable a user to interact with the edit experience to reproduce the image transformation, such as via a step-by-step process. In at least some implementations, edits to a particular digital image are saved as presets that can be suggested for editing other images, such as images that are determined to be similar to an edited image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Eric Nichoson, Edward Christopher Wright, Christopher James Gammon, Christian Thomas Cantrell
  • Publication number: 20210267435
    Abstract: A verification system for verifying features of a scene, the system including circuitry configured to receive initial information determined in accordance with a first analysis of the scene, produce at least one test image in accordance with test information indicating at least one feature of the scene to be verified, the at least one test image being at least one predetermined image selected in accordance with the test information, modified in accordance with the initial information, overlay the scene with the at least one test image, receive comparison information relating to a comparison of the at least one test image overlaid with the scene with the at least one predetermined image selected in accordance with the test information and generate a verification status of a feature of the scene in accordance with the received comparison information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher WRIGHT, Naoyuki HIROTA
  • Publication number: 20210259789
    Abstract: A surgical support system including: an eye behaviour monitoring apparatus that monitors eye behaviour of a surgeon performing a surgical procedure to obtain eye behaviour data of the surgeon; a surgical data generating apparatus that generates surgical data associated with the surgical procedure being performed by the surgeon; a surgical intervention apparatus that performs an intervention procedure for intervening in the surgeon's performance of the surgical procedure; and a data processing apparatus that: determines a value of an intervention parameter associated with the surgical procedure using the obtained eye behaviour data; determines an acceptable range of the value of the intervention parameter using the generated surgical data, and if the determined value of the intervention parameter is outside the determined acceptable range of the value of the intervention parameter, controls the surgical intervention apparatus to perform the intervention procedure for intervening in the surgeon's performance of
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher WRIGHT, Matthew LAWRENSON, Naoyuki HIROTA
  • Publication number: 20210225502
    Abstract: An operating room control system is described that includes circuitry configured to: determine a plurality of regions located within at least part of the operating room, at least one of the regions having a predefined surgical device attribute defining a characteristic of a surgical device located within that region; and control a display to display to a user the at least one region overlaid on the at least part of the operating room.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher WRIGHT, Akinori KAMODA
  • Publication number: 20210217253
    Abstract: A notification can be generated to notify a user of a value of a first parameter of a vehicle. Generating the notification includes identifying a second parameter based on an association of the second parameter with the first parameter; comparing the value of the first parameter to a first threshold value and a second threshold value; and generating the notification notifying the user of the value of the first parameter based on a value of the second parameter if the value of the first parameter is between the first and second thresholds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew John Murray, Torsten Gerhardt, Ian Sutherland Wright, Christopher Wright, Daniel Tauber
  • Patent number: 11010036
    Abstract: Techniques for edit experience for transformation of digital content are delivered in a digital medium environment. According to various implementations, an image editor system receives edits to a digital image to transform the digital image and generate an edited image. An edit experience is then generated that is presentable to recreate the image transformation process. The image editor system outputs the edit experience to enable a user to interact with the edit experience to reproduce the image transformation, such as via a step-by-step process. In at least some implementations, edits to a particular digital image are saved as presets that can be suggested for editing other images, such as images that are determined to be similar to an edited image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Eric Nichoson, Edward Christopher Wright, Christopher James Gammon, Christian Thomas Cantrell
  • Publication number: 20210103732
    Abstract: According to various, but not necessarily all, embodiments there is provided an apparatus comprising means for: capturing at least one image of a cornea of the user; processing the at least one image to detect one or more objects and/or activities based on one or more reflections by a peripheral portion of the cornea; and providing an alert to the user for alerting the user to the detection of the one or more objects and/or activities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: Christopher WRIGHT, Matthew LAWRENSON
  • Publication number: 20210097629
    Abstract: An apparatus comprising means for: rendering first content to a first user, the first content being based on recorded content associated with a second user; eye tracking in a time interval following the rendering of the first content to obtain eye-tracking data of the first user; determining first data indicative of whether or not there is a match between the eye-tracking data of the first user and reference eye-tracking data associated with the recorded content associated with the second user; receiving second data indicative of whether or not there is a match between eye-tracking data of the second user and reference eye-tracking data associated with recorded content associated with the first user; and if both the first and second data are indicative of a match, then providing the first user with a telecommunication option configured to initiate communication with the second user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Christopher WRIGHT, Matthew LAWRENSON, David DUFFY
  • Patent number: 10965517
    Abstract: Systems are provided for logging transactions in heterogeneous networks that include a combination of one or more instrumented components and one or more non-instrumented components. The instrumented components are configured to generate impersonated log records for the non-instrumented components involved in the transaction processing hand-offs with the instrumented components. The impersonated log records are persisted with other log records that are generated by the instrumented components in a transaction log that is maintained by a central logging system to reflect a complete flow of the transaction processing performed on the object, including the flow through the non-instrumented component(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: David Christopher Wright, Arijit Chatterjee, Qingqing Yuan, Praveen Kumar Barli, Basaveshwar S. Hiremath, Nosheen M. Syed
  • Patent number: D922593
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Apex Neuro Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Zen Chu, Sean Hagberg, Francois Kress, Jainam Shah, Geoff Baldwin, Priyanka Venkatesh, Christopher Wright, Thomas Kershaw
  • Patent number: D933774
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: OPCW Holdings Limited
    Inventors: Christopher Wright, Oliver Paris