Patents by Inventor Daniel Bender
Daniel Bender 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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Publication number: 20230087253Abstract: A backpack comprises a back panel with a pair of shoulder straps attached to the pack panel. The back panel has a rifle support facility; a storage facility hinged to the back panel; and the back panel and storage facility configured to define a rifle space configured to receive a rifle having a muzzle extending above or below the backpack.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: SKILI, LLCInventor: Daniel A. Bender
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Publication number: 20230011383Abstract: A bulk sorting system for sorting objects in bulk is provided. The bulk sorting system includes: at least one radiation source arranged to radiate the objects, at least one optical sensor arranged to capture reflected radiation of the objects and acquire the reflected radiation as multi- or hyperspectral data; a processing circuit configured to analyze the reflected radiation of the objects by inputting the multi- or hyperspectral data into a convolutional neural network (CNN) with at least two convolutional layers in order to either detect and classify the objects in the multi- or hyperspectral data and/or semantically segment the multi- or hyperspectral data; and a mechanical sorter configured to sort the objects according to their classification and/or segmentation using the analysis of the processing circuit such that different overlapping and/or stacked objects are separated or treated as a single group of objects.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2020Publication date: January 12, 2023Applicant: Tomra Sorting GmbHInventors: Dirk BALTHASAR, Daniel BENDER, Frank SCHMITT
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Patent number: 10843078Abstract: Mental state data is collected as a person interacts with a game played on a machine. The mental state data includes facial data, where the facial data includes facial regions or facial landmarks. The mental state data can include physiological data and actigraphy data. The mental state data is analyzed to produce mental state information. Mental state data and/or mental state information can be shared across a social network or a gaming community. The affect of the person interacting with the game can be represented to the social network or gaming community in the form of an avatar. Recommendations based on the affect resulting from the analysis can be made to the person interacting with the game. Mental states are analyzed locally or via a web services. Based on the results of the analysis, the game with which the person is interacting is modified.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2016Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: Affectiva, Inc.Inventors: Rana el Kaliouby, Panu James Turcot, Forest Jay Handford, Daniel Bender, Rosalind Wright Picard, Richard Scott Sadowsky, Oliver Orion Wilder-Smith
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Patent number: 10143414Abstract: An individual can exhibit one or more mental states when reacting to a stimulus. A camera or other monitoring device can be used to collect, on an intermittent basis, mental state data including facial data. The mental state data can be interpolated between the intermittent collecting. The facial data can be obtained from a series of images of the individual where the images are captured intermittently. A second face can be identified, and the first face and the second face can be tracked.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Affectiva, Inc.Inventors: Rana el Kaliouby, Daniel Bender, Evan Kodra, Oliver Ernst Nowak, Richard Scott Sadowsky
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Patent number: 9793177Abstract: Precise annealing of identified defective regions of a Focal Plane Array (“FPA”) (e.g., exclusive of non-defective regions of the FPA) facilitates removal of defects from an FPA that has been hybridized and/or packaged with readout electronics. Radiation is optionally applied under operating conditions, such as under cryogenic temperatures, such that performance of an FPA can be evaluated before, during, and after annealing without requiring thermal cycling.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2015Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLCInventor: Daniel A. Bender
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Patent number: 9410900Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for identifying carrier lifetimes are disclosed herein. In a general embodiment, a beam of light is sent to a group of locations on a material for an optical device. Photons emitted from the material are detected at each of the group of locations. A carrier lifetime is identified for each of the group of locations based on the photons detected from each of the group of locations.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2015Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: Sandia CorporationInventors: Grant Soehnel, Daniel A. Bender
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Publication number: 20160144278Abstract: Mental state data is collected as a person interacts with a game played on a machine. The mental state data includes facial data, where the facial data includes facial regions or facial landmarks. The mental state data can include physiological data and actigraphy data. The mental state data is analyzed to produce mental state information. Mental state data and/or mental state information can be shared across a social network or a gaming community. The affect of the person interacting with the game can be represented to the social network or gaming community in the form of an avatar. Recommendations based on the affect resulting from the analysis can be made to the person interacting with the game. Mental states are analyzed locally or via a web services. Based on the results of the analysis, the game with which the person is interacting is modified.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2016Publication date: May 26, 2016Inventors: Rana el Kaliouby, Panu James Turcot, Forest Jay Handford, Daniel Bender, Rosalind Wright Picard, Richard Scott Sadowsky, Oliver Orion Wilder-Smith
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Publication number: 20160081607Abstract: An individual can exhibit one or more mental states when reacting to a stimulus. A camera or other monitoring device can be used to collect, on an intermittent basis, mental state data including facial data. The mental state data can be interpolated between the intermittent collecting. The facial data can be obtained from a series of images of the individual where the images are captured intermittently. A second face can be identified, and the first face and the second face can be tracked.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2015Publication date: March 24, 2016Applicant: Affectiva, Inc.Inventors: Rana el Kaliouby, Daniel Bender, Evan Kodra, Oliver Ernst Nowak, Richard Scott Sadowsky
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Patent number: 9247903Abstract: Mental state data is collected as a person interacts with a game machine. Analysis is performed on this data and mental state information and affect are shared across a social network. The affect of a person can be represented to the social network or gaming community in the form of an avatar. Recommendations can be based on the affect of the person. Mental states can be analyzed by web services which may, in turn, modify the game.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2012Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: Affectiva, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Bender, Rana el Kaliouby, Rosalind Wright Picard, Richard Scott Sadowsky, Panu James Turcot, Oliver Orion Wilder-Smith
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Patent number: 9204836Abstract: A user may react to an interaction by exhibiting a mental state. A camera or other monitoring device can be used to capture one or more manifestations of the user's mental state, such as facial expressions, electrodermal activity, or movements. However, there may be conditions where the monitoring device is not able to detect the manifestation continually. Thus, various capabilities and implementations are described where the mental state data is collected on an intermittent basis, analyzed, and an output rendered based on the analysis of the mental state data.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2013Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: Affectiva, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Bender, Rana el Kaliouby, Evan Kodra, Oliver Ernst Nowak, Richard Scott Sadowsky
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Publication number: 20150348853Abstract: Precise annealing of identified defective regions of a Focal Plane Array (“FPA”) (e.g., exclusive of non-defective regions of the FPA) facilitates removal of defects from an FPA that has been hybridized and/or packaged with readout electronics. Radiation is optionally applied under operating conditions, such as under cryogenic temperatures, such that performance of an FPA can be evaluated before, during, and after annealing without requiring thermal cycling.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2015Publication date: December 3, 2015Inventor: Daniel A. Bender
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Publication number: 20150338352Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for identifying carrier lifetimes are disclosed herein. In a general embodiment, a beam of light is sent to a group of locations on a material for an optical device. Photons emitted from the material are detected at each of the group of locations. A carrier lifetime is identified for each of the group of locations based on the photons detected from each of the group of locations.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2015Publication date: November 26, 2015Inventors: Grant Soehnel, Daniel A. Bender
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Patent number: 9142465Abstract: Precise annealing of identified defective regions of a Focal Plane Array (“FPA”) (e.g., exclusive of non-defective regions of the FPA) facilitates removal of defects from an FPA that has been hybridized and/or packaged with readout electronics. Radiation is optionally applied under operating conditions, such as under cryogenic temperatures, such that performance of an FPA can be evaluated before, during, and after annealing without requiring thermal cycling.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2013Date of Patent: September 22, 2015Assignee: Sandia CorporationInventor: Daniel A. Bender
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Patent number: 8915458Abstract: A litter management device, such as a device configured to disintegrate and/or de-cake caked litter from poultry is described. In some embodiments, the litter management device includes a litter de-caking mechanism contained within a housing, which is supported by a movable frame. The litter de-caking mechanism includes one or more hammers flexibly attached, such as via chains, to a rotation bar, enabling the hammers to rotate in a circular motion around the rotation bar and within the housing. The rotation of the hammers causes the hammers to strike, often at high speeds, caked litter within a target area, which disintegrates the caked litter, allowing for the removal of the caked litter from an area generally used by poultry, among other benefits.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2011Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Inventor: Daniel Bender
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Patent number: 8822959Abstract: The phase value of a phase-sensitive optical device, which includes an optical transport region, is modified by laser processing. At least a portion of the optical transport region is exposed to a laser beam such that the phase value is changed from a first phase value to a second phase value, where the second phase value is different from the first phase value. The portion of the optical transport region that is exposed to the laser beam can be a surface of the optical transport region or a portion of the volume of the optical transport region. In an embodiment of the invention, the phase value of the optical device is corrected by laser processing. At least a portion of the optical transport region is exposed to a laser beam until the phase value of the optical device is within a specified tolerance of a target phase value.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2013Date of Patent: September 2, 2014Assignee: Sandia CorporationInventors: Christopher DeRose, Daniel A. Bender
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Publication number: 20140081090Abstract: Computer-implemented techniques are disclosed for analyzing physiology data captured by biosensors and for providing alerts based on the biosensor data. The biosensor data is captured non-invasively and is analyzed to identify atypical brain activity that can result from illness, injury, disease, and seizures. The biosensor data can include electrodermal activity, skin temperature, and accelerometer data. The data is sent to a web service for analysis, and to determine whether an alert should be generated. The alerts, based on the biosensor data captured from the individual, are received from the web service. An output related to physiology is rendered based on an alert being received from the web service.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2013Publication date: March 20, 2014Applicant: Affectiva, Inc.Inventors: Rosalind Wright Picard, Daniel Bender, Walter Gillett
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Publication number: 20140051047Abstract: A user may react to an interaction by exhibiting a mental state. A camera or other monitoring device can be used to capture one or more manifestations of the user's mental state, such as facial expressions, electrodermal activity, or movements. However, there may be conditions where the monitoring device is not able to detect the manifestation continually. Thus, various capabilities and implementations are described where the mental state data is collected on an intermittent basis, analyzed, and an output rendered based on the analysis of the mental state data.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2013Publication date: February 20, 2014Applicant: Affectiva, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Bender, Rana el Kaliouby, Evan Kodra, Oliver Ernst Nowak, Richard Scott Sadowsky
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Publication number: 20130262182Abstract: Analysis of mental states is provided to evaluate purchase intent. Purchase intent may be determined based on viewing and sampling various products. Data is captured for viewers of a product where the data includes facial information, physiological data, and the like. Facial and physiological information may be gathered for a group of viewers. In some embodiments, demographics information is collected and used as a criterion for evaluating product or service purchase intent. In some embodiments, data captured from an individual viewer or group of viewers is used to optimize product purchase intent.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2013Publication date: October 3, 2013Applicant: Affectiva, Inc.Inventors: Evan Kodra, Daniel Bender, Rana el Kaliouby, Mohamed Nada
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Publication number: 20120168545Abstract: A litter management device, such as a device configured to disintegrate and/or de-cake caked litter from poultry is described. In some embodiments, the litter management device includes a litter de-caking mechanism contained within a housing, which is supported by a movable frame. The litter de-caking mechanism includes one or more hammers flexibly attached, such as via chains, to a rotation bar, enabling the hammers to rotate in a circular motion around the rotation bar and within the housing. The rotation of the hammers causes the hammers to strike, often at high speeds, caked litter within a target area, which disintegrates the caked litter, allowing for the removal of the caked litter from an area generally used by poultry, among other benefits.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2011Publication date: July 5, 2012Inventor: Daniel Bender
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Publication number: 20120135804Abstract: Mental state data is collected as a person interacts with a game machine. Analysis is performed on this data and mental state information and affect are shared across a social network. The affect of a person can be represented to the social network or gaming community in the form of an avatar. Recommendations can be based on the affect of the person. Mental states can be analyzed by web services which may, in turn, modify the game.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2012Publication date: May 31, 2012Inventors: Daniel Bender, Rana el Kaliouby, Rosalind Wright Picard, Richard Scott Sadowsky, Panu James Turcot, Oliver Orion Wilder-Smith