Patents by Inventor Daniel Clement Williams

Daniel Clement Williams 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).

  • Method and apparatus for capture and distribution of broadband data
    Patent number: 8692885
    Abstract: A system and method for preparing for distribution to, distributing to and/or use by one or more devices broadband data associated with intelligence information garnered from an aerial vehicle (“AV”): The method may include obtaining from sensors coupled to the AV video depicting an area of surveillance, obtaining metadata associated with the video, aligning, temporally, the video and metadata, using reference information to align, spatially, the video and metadata, forming for distribution to the at least one device enhanced metadata as a function of the video, metadata and reference information, wherein the enhanced metadata is operable to enable displaying at the devices at least a portion of the video, whereby after receiving a distribution of the enhanced metadata, the devices are operable to display such portion of the video.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: SRI International
    Inventors: Mark Alan Sartor, Philip Wayne Miller, Arthur Robert Pope, Peter L. Demers, Nikhil Gagvani, Vincent Paragano, Daniel Clement Williams
  • Method and apparatus for capture and distribution of broadband data
    Publication number: 20090012995
    Abstract: A system and method for preparing for distribution to, distributing to and/or use by one or more devices broadband data associated with intelligence information garnered from an aerial vehicle (“AV”): The method may include obtaining from sensors coupled to the AV video depicting an area of surveillance, obtaining metadata associated with the video, aligning, temporally, the video and metadata, using reference information to align, spatially, the video and metadata, forming for distribution to the at least one device enhanced metadata as a function of the video, metadata and reference information, wherein the enhanced metadata is operable to enable displaying at the devices at least a portion of the video, whereby after receiving a distribution of the enhanced metadata, the devices are operable to display such portion of the video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2006
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Applicant: Sarnoff Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Alan Sartor, Philip Wayne Miller, Arthur Robert Pope, Peter L. Demers, Nikhil Gagvani, Vincent Paragano, Daniel Clement Williams