Patents by Inventor Darryl H. Yong

Darryl H. Yong 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).

  • CAMERA-BASED DOCUMENT IMAGING
    Publication number: 20140247470
    Abstract: A process and system to transform a digital photograph of a text document into a scan-quality image is disclosed. By extracting the document text from the image, and analyzing visual clues from the text, a grid is constructed over the image representing the distortions in the image. Transforming the image to straighten this grid removes distortions introduced by the camera image-capture process. Variations in lighting, the extraction of text line information, and the modeling of curved lines in the image may be corrected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: Compulink Managment Center, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin G. Hunt, Maria A. Pavlovskaia, Logan M.K. Gordon, William W. Tipton, Trang T. Pham, Darryl H. Yong, Weiqing Gu, James O. Egan, Liangnan Wu, Kin-Chung Wong
  • SAFE AND COMPACT MACHINE FOR RAPIDLY PRODUCING FROZEN CONFECTIONS
    Publication number: 20130333404
    Abstract: The present invention safely freezes a confection very quickly, preferably in less than two minutes. The device includes an insulated refrigerant tank; one or more elevators; a mold; a mold holder mounted on the elevator; a refrigerant level monitoring subsystem capable of refilling the refrigerant tank; and, a user interface subsystem. The mold is preferably tapered with interior freezing surfaces such as tubes of refrigerant, which decrease the confection's freezing time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2012
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Inventors: Darryl H. Yong, Nancy K. Lape, Bryan Chow, Rachid Grimes, Samuel Joseph Ettinger, Wei Wei, Julie Anne Kraus, Jean-Vincent Hong, Joyce Chia-Hsin Lin
  • CAMERA-BASED DOCUMENT IMAGING
    Publication number: 20100073735
    Abstract: A process and system to transform a digital photograph of a text document into a scan-quality image is disclosed. By extracting the document text from the image, and analyzing visual clues from the text, a grid is constructed over the image representing the distortions in the image. Transforming the image to straighten this grid removes distortions introduced by the camera image-capture process. Variations in lighting, the extraction of text line information, and the modeling of curved lines in the image may be corrected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2009
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Inventors: Martin G. Hunt, Maria A. Pavlovskaia, Logan M.K. Gordon, William W. Tipton, Trang T. Pham, Darryl H. Yong, Weiqing Gu, James O. Egan, Liangnan Wu, Kin-Chung Wong