Patents by Inventor Earl Johns
Earl Johns 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: 11953215Abstract: A heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) unit includes a heat exchange section having a plurality of panels defining an air flow path through the heat exchange section. The air flow path includes an upstream portion and a downstream portion, the upstream portion has a first cross-sectional area, and the downstream portion has a second cross-sectional area greater than the first cross-sectional area.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: TYCO FIRE & SECURITY GMBHInventors: Ashish Nandkumar Bardia, Abhishek Gangaram Parab, Curtis Wayne Caskey, Earl John Rightmier
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Publication number: 20240085033Abstract: A direct outdoor air system may include an enclosure having an air inlet to direct environmental air into the enclosure, a heat exchanger section to receive the environmental air and direct conditioned air to an air outlet of the enclosure, and a blower section to receive the environmental air from the air inlet and direct the environmental air to the heat exchanger section via an air flow path between the blower section and the heat exchanger section. The air outlet may direct the conditioned air to a conditioned space. The direct outdoor air system may also include a heat exchanger disposed in the heat exchanger section to condition the environmental air, generating the conditioned air, and a blower disposed in the blower section to motivate the environmental air through the air flow path. Additionally, a heat exchange area of the heat exchanger may be oriented vertically relative to gravity.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Earl John Rightmier, Randi Rae Rizzuto, Karla Daniela Alvarez Cavazos, Kajal Durga Prasad, Ashish Nandkumar Bardia
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Publication number: 20230296269Abstract: A heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) unit includes a heat exchange section having a plurality of panels defining an air flow path through the heat exchange section. The air flow path includes an upstream portion and a downstream portion, the upstream portion has a first cross-sectional area, and the downstream portion has a second cross-sectional area greater than the first cross-sectional area.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2022Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Ashish Nandkumar Bardia, Abhishek Gangaram Parab, Curtis Wayne Caskey, Earl John Rightmier
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Patent number: 10645242Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, a storage unit contains, by each of a plurality of languages that are respectively associated with each direction of slide operations, a character string. A display controller causes a display unit to display, on a screen, an instruction-receiving image to be touched through a touch panel. When a slide operation is performed on a non-operational region where the instruction-receiving image is not located, the character string of the language associated with the direction of the slide operation is retrieved from the storage unit, and a selected-language window is generated by substituting the character string displayed on the screen of the display unit with the character string that has been retrieved, and displayed only for a predetermined period of time.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2017Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Earl John Abaquita
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Patent number: 10573045Abstract: An assembled group image is generated from subject images. Each of the subject images is associated with height data for the subject in the image. The height data is used to position the subject images in the assembled group image to provide a natural appearance. Shadows can also be added to the assembled group image.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2018Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Shutterfly, LLCInventors: Michael T. Breckenridge, Eric J. Runquist, Michael J. Surma, Earl John Adolphi
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Patent number: 10567615Abstract: The image forming apparatus sets, as a cutting area, an area containing an image of a double-page spread out of image data obtained by a scan of a book-type document, sets a borderline which divides an area corresponding to one page of the image data and an area corresponding to the other page of the image data from each other, and divides the cutting area cut out from the image data into a one-side area of the borderline and the other-side area of the borderline, thereby generating a first pre-output page in which divided image data of the one-side area is provided and a second pre-output page in which divided image data of the other-side area is provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2018Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignee: KYOCERA DOCUMENT SOLUTIONS INC.Inventor: Earl John Abaquita
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Publication number: 20200053239Abstract: In an image forming apparatus, a storage unit contains, by each of a plurality of languages that are respectively associated with each direction of slide operations, a character string. A display controller causes a display unit to display, on a screen, an instruction-receiving image to be touched through a touch panel. When a slide operation is performed on a non-operational region where the instruction-receiving image is not located, the character string of the language associated with the direction of the slide operation is retrieved from the storage unit, and a selected-language window is generated by substituting the character string displayed on the screen of the display unit with the character string that has been retrieved, and displayed only for a predetermined period of time.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2017Publication date: February 13, 2020Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Earl John ABAQUITA
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Publication number: 20190230246Abstract: The image forming apparatus sets, as a cutting area, an area containing an image of a double-page spread out of image data obtained by a scan of a book-type document, sets a borderline which divides an area corresponding to one page of the image data and an area corresponding to the other page of the image data from each other, and divides the cutting area cut out from the image data into a one-side area of the borderline and the other-side area of the borderline, thereby generating a first pre-output page in which divided image data of the one-side area is provided and a second pre-output page in which divided image data of the other-side area is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2018Publication date: July 25, 2019Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventor: Earl John ABAQUITA
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Patent number: 10270934Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a display section; an image reading section; a rectangle extracting section that extracts a rectangle-representing image from a document image acquired from reading by the image reading section and detects a size and a location of the rectangle-representing image in the document image; an identification information assigning section that sequentially assigns a piece of identification information to the extracted rectangle-representing image; a display control section; an operation acceptance section; a box information creating section that associates the rectangle-representing image specified as a box the size and location of the rectangle-representing image in the document image, and the piece of identification information assigned to the rectangle-representing image with each other to create a piece of box information on the box; a storage section; and a control section that allows the storage section to store a template containing the document image and the piece ofType: GrantFiled: November 15, 2017Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Carl Christian Ray Pantin, Earl John Abaquita
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Publication number: 20180276867Abstract: An assembled group image is generated from subject images. Each of the subject images is associated with height data for the subject in the image. The height data is used to position the subject images in the assembled group image to provide a natural appearance. Shadows can also be added to the assembled group image.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2018Publication date: September 27, 2018Inventors: Michael T. Breckenridge, Eric J. Runquist, Michael J. Surma, Earl John Adolphi
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Patent number: 10013784Abstract: An assembled group image is generated from subject images. Each of the subject images is associated with height data for the subject in the image. The height data is used to position the subject images in the assembled group image to provide a natural appearance. Shadows can also be added to the assembled group image.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2015Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Assignee: Lifetouch Inc.Inventors: Michael T. Breckenridge, Eric J. Runquist, Michael J. Surma, Earl John Adolphi
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Publication number: 20180160009Abstract: An image processing apparatus includes: a display section; an image reading section; a rectangle extracting section that extracts a rectangle-representing image from a document image acquired from reading by the image reading section and detects a size and a location of the rectangle-representing image in the document image; an identification information assigning section that sequentially assigns a piece of identification information to the extracted rectangle-representing image; a display control section; an operation acceptance section; a box information creating section that associates the rectangle-representing image specified as a box the size and location of the rectangle-representing image in the document image, and the piece of identification information assigned to the rectangle-representing image with each other to create a piece of box information on the box; a storage section; and a control section that allows the storage section to store a template containing the document image and the piece ofType: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2017Publication date: June 7, 2018Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.Inventors: Carl Christian Ray PANTIN, Earl John ABAQUITA
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Patent number: 9396346Abstract: A method is provided for use on an electronic device having a display, a communication component, a memory, and a processor coupled to the display, the communication component, and the memory. The memory stores data in a first sandbox and data in a second sandbox, the first sandbox being a secure sandbox and having a shadow data component, the shadow data component storing a subset of the data stored in the first sandbox. The method comprises, in response to a request, providing the data stored in the first sandbox when the first sandbox is in an unlocked mode and providing the data stored in the shadow data component when the first sandbox is in a locked mode.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2014Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignees: BlackBerry Limited, 2236008 Ontario Inc.Inventors: Edward Snow Willis, Jean-Philippe Lespinasse, Francois Leroux, Jasvir Jhaj, Praveena Asokan, Earl John Wikkerink, Alan Edward Falloon, Alan Geue, David Alan Inglis, Benton Hei Wah Lam, Christopher Scott Travers, Adrian Michael Logan, John William Cassidy
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Publication number: 20160012623Abstract: An assembled group image is generated from subject images. Each of the subject images is associated with height data for the subject in the image. The height data is used to position the subject images in the assembled group image to provide a natural appearance. Shadows can also be added to the assembled group image.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2015Publication date: January 14, 2016Inventors: Michael T. Breckenridge, Eric J. Runquist, Michael J. Surma, Earl John Adolphi
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Publication number: 20150363602Abstract: A method is provided for use on an electronic device having a display, a communication component, a memory, and a processor coupled to the display, the communication component, and the memory. The memory stores data in a first sandbox and data in a second sandbox, the first sandbox being a secure sandbox and having a shadow data component, the shadow data component storing a subset of the data stored in the first sandbox. The method comprises, in response to a request, providing the data stored in the first sandbox when the first sandbox is in an unlocked mode and providing the data stored in the shadow data component when the first sandbox is in a locked mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2014Publication date: December 17, 2015Inventors: Edward Snow WILLIS, Jean-Philippe LESPINASSE, Francois LEROUX, Jasvir JHAJ, Praveena ASOKAN, Earl John WIKKERINK, Alan Edward FALLOON, Alan GEUE, David Alan INGLIS, Benton Hei Wah LAM, Christopher Scott TRAVERS, Adrian Michael LOGAN, John William CASSIDY
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Patent number: 9025906Abstract: An assembled group image is generated from subject images. Each of the subject images is associated with height data for the subject in the image. The height data is used to position the subject images in the assembled group image to provide a natural appearance. Shadows can also be added to the assembled group image.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2012Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Lifetouch Inc.Inventors: Michael T. Breckenridge, Eric J. Runquist, Michael J. Surma, Earl John Adolphi
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Publication number: 20140169696Abstract: An assembled group image is generated from subject images. Each of the subject images is associated with height data for the subject in the image. The height data is used to position the subject images in the assembled group image to provide a natural appearance. Shadows can also be added to the assembled group image.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2012Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: LIFETOUCH INC.Inventors: Michael T. Breckenridge, Eric J. Runquist, Michael J. Surma, Earl John Adolphi
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Publication number: 20140169697Abstract: An assembled group editor enables editing of an assembled group image. The assembled group image is automatically assembled from a plurality of individual subject images. A user interface is generated by the editor that includes a workspace. The assembled group image is displayed by the editor in the workspace to provide a preview of the assembled group image to the user. The user provides inputs, at least some of which are received by the editor into the workspace. The editor modifies the assembled group image according to the inputs.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: Lifetouch Inc.Inventors: Michael T. Breckenridge, Earl John Adolphi
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Patent number: 8457480Abstract: A photography station operates to capture digital images of a subject with at least one digital camera. The photography station includes foreground lighting and background lighting. The foreground lighting is configured to illuminate the subject, while the background lighting is configured to illuminate a background. The photography station includes a computing device having a setup module operable to perform tests to check a configuration of the photography station, and a photography module operable to capture digital images of the subject with the digital camera. In some embodiments, the tests performed by the setup module include a plurality of initial checking operations and a plurality of background processing operations.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2012Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: Lifetouch Inc.Inventors: Michael John Surma, Richard Lee Swanson, Earl John Adolphi, Brent Peterson
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Patent number: 8319797Abstract: A first digital image is acquired of a framed area while illuminating the background and foreground object under a first lighting condition. A second digital image is then acquired of the same framed area while illuminating the background and foreground object under a second lighting condition. Preferably, the first lighting condition illuminates the background without illuminating the foreground object so that a silhouette of the foreground object is acquired in the first image. The second lighting condition illuminates the foreground object (e.g., with frontal lights). Due to the difference in the illumination between the background and silhouette in the first image, an alpha mask can be created from the first acquired image. Using the mask, the background from the second image can be removed and replaced by virtually any other desired background image.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2012Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Lifetouch Inc.Inventors: Richard Lee Swanson, Earl John Adolphi, Michael John Surma, John Robert Reinert Nash