Patents by Inventor Daniel Conrad Benson
Daniel Conrad Benson 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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Patent number: 8510666Abstract: Some embodiments provide a touch-sensitive device to receive a bias and to generate touch location information based on the bias, an element to secure a printed medium in contact with the touch sensitive device, the printed medium to depict a plurality of telephone interface controls, a memory to store a telephone interface layout associating one or more of the telephone interface controls with a respective touch location and a respective action, and a processor to receive touch location information from the touch-sensitive device, to determine a telephone interface control based on the touch location information and on the telephone interface layout, to determine an action based on the telephone interface control and on the telephone interface layout, and to perform the determined action.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2006Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: Siemens Enterprise Communications GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Stuart Goose, Ingo Meyer, Daniel Conrad Benson
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Patent number: 7505817Abstract: A system for programming automation by demonstration where a control program may be created or modified through the process of demonstrating desired behavior using graphical representations (or widgets) of physical, programming, and user interface elements. Widgets have state, or properties, and may also have inherent events associated with them or indirect events that are generated through the demonstration process. The general process of demonstration consists of providing several individual example behaviors. Complete behavior, and thus the resultant code, is generated through inferencing from a number of individual example behaviors. The process of programming automation by demonstration reduces the complexity of the programming task and thereby greatly simplifies the workload of the control programmer, allowing the programmer to concentrate more on the specific automation application at hand rather than on the particulars of the programming language or tools.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2001Date of Patent: March 17, 2009Assignee: Siemens Technology-to-Business Center, LLCInventors: Richard Gary McDaniel, Daniel Conrad Benson, Steven Michael Schofield, Frank Dittrich Schiller
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Patent number: 7440811Abstract: A method of analyzing a manufacturing system. The manufacturing system includes a plurality of manufacturing resources. A set of orders is currently appointed for processing by the manufacturing system. Each order of the set of orders requires performance of at least one task. Each task is to be performed by at least a respective one of the manufacturing resources. The method includes determining stochastic parameters for each task of the plurality of tasks. The method also includes calculating a stochastic waiting time for at least one selected task of the plurality of tasks. The calculation is based at least in part on the stochastic parameters of the tasks.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2005Date of Patent: October 21, 2008Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Mark Mathieu Theodorus Giebels, Daniel Conrad Benson
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Publication number: 20070217580Abstract: Some embodiments provide a touch-sensitive device to receive a bias and to generate touch location information based on the bias, an element to secure a printed medium in contact with the touch sensitive device, the printed medium to depict a plurality of telephone interface controls, a memory to store a telephone interface layout associating one or more of the telephone interface controls with a respective touch location and a respective action, and a processor to receive touch location information from the touch-sensitive device, to determine a telephone interface control based on the touch location information and on the telephone interface layout, to determine an action based on the telephone interface control and on the telephone interface layout, and to perform the determined action.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2006Publication date: September 20, 2007Inventors: Stuart Goose, Ingo Meyer, Daniel Conrad Benson
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Patent number: 7177714Abstract: A method of analyzing a manufacturing system. The manufacturing system includes a plurality of manufacturing resources. A set of orders is currently appointed for processing by the manufacturing system. Each order of the set of orders requires performance of at least one task. Each task is to be performed by at least a respective one of the manufacturing resources. The method includes determining stochastic parameters for each task of the plurality of tasks. The method also includes calculating a loading profile for at least one of the manufacturing resources that is allocated to at least one of the plurality of tasks. The loading profile function is a function of time and represents a probability that the manufacturing resource is occupied at a given time. The calculation is based at least in part on the stochastic parameters of the tasks.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2005Date of Patent: February 13, 2007Assignee: Siemens Technology-to-Business Center, LLCInventors: Mark Mathieu Theodorus Giebels, Daniel Conrad Benson
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Patent number: 7066376Abstract: The present invention provides methods for connecting electrically conductive elastomer to electronics that reduce cost and time for manufacturing a tactile sensor that includes an electrically conductive elastomer such as a conductive foam. The methods provide a good connection between the electrically conductive elastomer and the electrodes connected to the electronics, which provide for repeatable measurements. The methods can be used for all cases of electrically conductive elastomers and elastomers made to be conductive with the addition of conductive particles (such as carbon, silver, nickel, gold, etc.) including thermoplastic and some thermosetting elastomers.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2003Date of Patent: June 27, 2006Assignee: Siemens Technology-To-Business Center LLLC.Inventors: Irving S. Scher, Daniel Conrad Benson
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Patent number: 6888537Abstract: A configurable operator panel that uses a tactile sensor with electrically conductive elastomer and appropriate electronics is disclosed herein. The device relies on a robust and inexpensive tactile sensor that senses the touch position (and may or may not sense touch pressure as well). The physical interface is easily configurable along with the electronics, which execute the desired function based on touch location and pressure. The configurable operator panel is designed to communicate with most industrial automation equipment, including but not limited to, motion control equipment, programmable logic controllers (PLC), personal computers, and can be made to control other types of machines requiring external analog or digital input.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2002Date of Patent: May 3, 2005Assignee: Siemens Technology-To-Business Center, LLCInventors: Daniel Conrad Benson, Irving S. Scher
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Patent number: 6871395Abstract: The present invention provides methods for connecting electrically conductive elastomer to electronics that reduce cost and time for manufacturing a tactile sensor that includes an electrically conductive elastomer such as a conductive foam. The methods provide a good connection between the electrically conductive elastomer and the electrodes connected to the electronics, which provide for repeatable measurements. The methods can be used for all cases of electrically conductive elastomers and elastomers made to be conductive with the addition of conductive particles (such as carbon, silver, nickel, gold, etc.) including thermoplastic and some thermosetting elastomers.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2001Date of Patent: March 29, 2005Assignee: Siemens Technology-To-Business Center, LLC.Inventors: Irving S. Scher, Daniel Conrad Benson
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Publication number: 20040267515Abstract: A system for programming automation by demonstration where a control program may be created or modified through the process of demonstrating desired behavior using graphical representations (or widgets) of physical, programming, and user interface elements. Widgets have state, or properties, and may also have inherent events associated with them or indirect events that are generated through the demonstration process. The general process of demonstration consists of providing several individual example behaviors. Complete behavior, and thus the resultant code, is generated through inferencing from a number of individual example behaviors. The process of programming automation by demonstration reduces the complexity of the programming task and thereby greatly simplifies the workload of the control programmer, allowing the programmer to concentrate more on the specific automation application at hand rather than on the particulars of the programming language or tools.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2001Publication date: December 30, 2004Inventors: Richard Gary McDaniel, Daniel Conrad Benson, Steven Michael Schofield, Frank Dittrich Schiller
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Publication number: 20040104260Abstract: The present invention provides methods for connecting electrically conductive elastomer to electronics that reduce cost and time for manufacturing a tactile sensor that includes an electrically conductive elastomer such as a conductive foam. The methods provide a good connection between the electrically conductive elastomer and the electrodes connected to the electronics, which provide for repeatable measurements. The methods can be used for all cases of electrically conductive elastomers and elastomers made to be conductive with the addition of conductive particles (such as carbon, silver, nickel, gold, etc.) including thermoplastic and some thermosetting elastomers.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2003Publication date: June 3, 2004Applicant: Siemens Technology-to-Business Center LLCInventors: Irving S. Scher, Daniel Conrad Benson
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Patent number: 6556206Abstract: A set of viewpoints for a given scene of 3D objects is defined by a system that restricts the degrees of freedom available to a user, through use of a bounding surface (a viewpoint sphere), and provides varying degrees of automation ranging from predefined viewpoints to generated tour paths, to interactive selection using free navigation. The system calculates the scene sphere, which is the minimum bounding sphere that contains the set of objects in the scene and then finds the viewpoint sphere, which is done by calculating the viewpoint sphere radius. The user then chooses the mode of viewpoint selection as either completely automated, semi-automated, or free navigation. The output is a set of viewpoints for the given scene of objects.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 1999Date of Patent: April 29, 2003Assignee: Siemens Corporate Research, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Conrad Benson, Brent Baxter, Soeren Moritz, Chris Muench
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Publication number: 20030024113Abstract: The present invention provides methods for connecting electrically conductive elastomer to electronics that reduce cost and time for manufacturing a tactile sensor that includes an electrically conductive elastomer such as a conductive foam. The methods provide a good connection between the electrically conductive elastomer and the electrodes connected to the electronics, which provide for repeatable measurements. The methods can be used for all cases of electrically conductive elastomers and elastomers made to be conductive with the addition of conductive particles (such as carbon, silver, nickel, gold, etc.) including thermoplastic and some thermosetting elastomers.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2001Publication date: February 6, 2003Applicant: Siemens Technology-To-Business Center LLCInventors: Irving S. Scher, Daniel Conrad Benson
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Patent number: 6101274Abstract: A computer-implemented method for the identification and interpretation of text captions in an encoded video stream of digital video signals comprises sampling by selecting frames for video analysis, decoding by converting each of frames selected into a digitized color image, performing edge detection for generating a grey scale image, binarizing by converting the grey scale image into a bi-level image by means of a thresholding operation, compressing groups of consecutive pixel values in the binary image, mapping the consecutive pixel values into a binary value, and separating groups of connected pixels and determining whether they are likely to be part of a text region in the image or not.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 1997Date of Patent: August 8, 2000Assignee: Siemens Corporate Research, Inc.Inventors: Arturo Pizano, Farshid Arman, Daniel Conrad Benson, Remi Depommier