Patents by Inventor Edward Macdonald
Edward Macdonald 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: 20210192615Abstract: Provided is a financial transaction arrangement 1 which generally comprises a distributed processing arrangement and includes an identification service computing system 2, a financial institution computing system 3, a property registry computing system 4, a lender computing system 5, an appraiser 6, and a mortgage brokering computing system 8. All of these computing systems 2, 3, 4, 5 and 8 are interconnected by means of communications network 200 which incorporates a blockchain. Via a number of transactions, the mortgage brokering computing system 8 generates aggregate blockchains on the network 200 able to provide a demonstrable and auditable history for captured identification details and subsequent transactions required for automatically brokering a mortgage.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2021Publication date: June 24, 2021Inventors: Ruth Hatherley, Jonathan Edward Macdonald
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Publication number: 20210141475Abstract: A viewing window for a spherical video may define which extents of the spherical video are viewable. Abrupt changes in the extents defined by the viewing window may result in non-smooth views of the spherical video, such as stagger, jitter, and/or other jerky motions being included in the views of the spherical video. Changes in the extents defined by the viewing window may be smoothed to provide smoother views of the spherical video.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2021Publication date: May 13, 2021Inventors: Daryl Stimm, William Edward MacDonald
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Patent number: 11001444Abstract: An automated storage and retrieval system including at least one autonomous rover for transferring payload within the system and including a communicator, a multilevel storage structure, each level allowing traversal of the at least one autonomous rover, at least one registration station disposed at predetermined locations on each level and being configured to communicate with the communicator to at least receive rover identification information, and a controller in communication with the at least one registration station and configured to receive the at least rover identification information and at least one of register the at least one autonomous rover as being on a level corresponding to a respective one of the at least one registration station or deregister the at least one autonomous rover from the system, where the controller effects induction of the at least one autonomous rover into a predetermined rover space on the level.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2019Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: Symbotic LLCInventors: Forrest Buzan, Edward A. MacDonald, Taylor A. Apgar, Thomas A. Schaefer, Melanie Ziegler, Russell G. Barbour
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Publication number: 20210125303Abstract: Methods and apparatus for image processing of spherical content via hardware acceleration components. In one embodiment, an EAC image is subdivided into facets via existing software addressing and written into the memory buffers (normally used for rectilinear cubemaps) in a graphics processing unit (GPU). The EAC facets may be translated, rotated, and/or mirrored so as to align with the expected three-dimensional (3D) coordinate space. The GPU may use existing hardware accelerator logic, parallelization, and/or addressing logic to greatly improve 3D image processing effects (such as a multi-band blend using Gaussian blurs.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2020Publication date: April 29, 2021Inventors: William Edward MacDonald, Kyler William Schwartz, David A. Newman
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Patent number: 10992880Abstract: Multiple framings of a video may define different positionings of a viewing window at different moments within the video. The positionings of the viewing window defined by the multiple framings may be used as fixed positionings of the viewing window in a viewing path. The viewing path may define changes in the positioning of the viewing window between the fixed positionings. A presentation of the video may be generated to include the extents of the video within the viewing window.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: GoPro, Inc.Inventors: Daryl Stimm, Kyler William Schwartz, William Edward MacDonald
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Patent number: 10974897Abstract: An automated storage and retrieval system including at least one autonomous transport vehicle, a transfer deck that defines an undeterministic transport surface for the at least one autonomous transport vehicle, the transfer deck having multiple travel lanes, at least one reciprocating lift, and at least one pickface handoff station connected to the transfer deck and interfacing between the at least one autonomous transport vehicle on the transfer deck and the at least one reciprocating lift so that a pickface is transferred between the at least one reciprocating and the at least one autonomous transport vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2016Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: Symbotic LLCInventors: Kirill K. Pankratov, Juergen D. Conrad, Robert Hsiung, Edward A. Macdonald, Larry M. Sweet
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Patent number: 10954066Abstract: In accordance with one or more aspects of the disclosed embodiment, a lift includes at least one load handling device configured so as to reciprocate along a lift axis, the load handling device including a frame forming a payload section with a payload support surface having a common elevation configured to hold one or more pickfaces at the common elevation of the payload support surface, at least one transfer arm movably mounted to the frame, and a drive section connected to the load handling device and being configured to move the load handling device along the lift axis, wherein the one or more pickfaces carried in unison by the payload support surface of the at least one load handling device, define an order sequence of pickfaces on the at least one load handling device according to a predetermined case out order sequence of mixed cases.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2019Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: Symbolic LLCInventors: Kirill K. Pankratov, Juergen D. Conrad, Robert Hsiung, William Johnson, Jr., Edward A. MacDonald, Larry M. Sweet
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Publication number: 20210082085Abstract: Apparatus and methods for optimized stitching of overcapture content. In one embodiment, the optimized stitching of the overcapture content includes capturing the overcapture content; producing overlap bands associated with the captured overcapture content; downsampling the produced overlap bands; generating derivative images from the downsampled overlap bands; generating a cost map associated with the generated derivative images; determining shortest path information for the generated cost map; generating a warp file based on the determined shortest path information, the generated warp file being utilized for the optimized stitching of the overcapture content. Camera apparatus and a non-transitory computer-readable apparatus are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2018Publication date: March 18, 2021Inventors: Daryl Stimm, David Newman, Kyler William Schwartz, William Edward MacDonald
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Patent number: 10921946Abstract: A viewing window for a spherical video may define which extents of the spherical video are viewable. Abrupt changes in the extents defined by the viewing window may result in non-smooth views of the spherical video, such as stagger, jitter, and/or other jerky motions being included in the views of the spherical video. Changes in the extents defined by the viewing window may be smoothed to provide smoother views of the spherical video.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2018Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: GoPro, Inc.Inventors: Daryl Stimm, William Edward MacDonald
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Publication number: 20200351485Abstract: A viewing direction may define an angle/visual portion of a spherical video at which a viewing window is directed. A trajectory of viewing direction may include changes in viewing directions for playback of spherical video. Abrupt changes in the viewing directions may result in jerky or shaky views of the spherical video. Changes in the viewing directions may be stabilized to provide stabilized views of the spherical video. Amount of stabilization may be limited by a margin constraint.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2020Publication date: November 5, 2020Inventors: Daryl Stimm, William Edward MacDonald, Kyler William Schwartz
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Publication number: 20200334746Abstract: Provided is a financial transaction arrangement (1) which generally comprises a distributed processing arrangement and includes an identification service computing system (2,) a financial institution computing system (3), a property registry computing in system (4), a lender computing system (5), an appraiser (6), and a mortgage brokering computing system (8). All of these computing systems (2, 3, 4, 5) and (8) are interconnected by means of communications network 200 which incorporates a blockchain. Via a number of transactions, the mortgage brokering computing system (8) generates aggregate blockchains on the network 200 able to provide a demonstrable and auditable history for captured identification details and subsequent transactions required for automatically brokering a mortgage.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2017Publication date: October 22, 2020Inventors: Ruth Hatherley, Jonathan Edward Macdonald
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Publication number: 20200307912Abstract: An autonomous rover including a frame having a first end and a second end longitudinally spaced from the first end and forming a payload bay, the payload bay being sized to support a pickface, a common active registration surface configured to engage the pickface, and a drive section connected to the common active registration surface, the drive section being configured to variably position the common active registration surface relative to at least one storage shelf of an automated storage and retrieval system to effect placement of the pickface on the storage shelf so that pickfaces are substantially continuously arranged along the at least one storage shelf with a predetermined storage spacing between the pickfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2020Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventors: Forrest Buzan, Michael Cyrulik, Aria Reynolds, Jason S. Sirois, Larry Sweet, Edward A. MacDonald, Taylor A. Apgar, Timothy Perrault, Stephen C. Toebes
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Patent number: 10683170Abstract: An autonomous rover including a frame having a first end and a second end longitudinally spaced from the first end and forming a payload bay, the payload bay being sized to support a pickface, a common active registration surface configured to engage the pickface, and a drive section connected to the common active registration surface, the drive section being configured to variably position the common active registration surface relative to at least one storage shelf of an automated storage and retrieval system to effect placement of the pickface on the storage shelf so that pickfaces are substantially continuously arranged along the at least one storage shelf with a predetermined storage spacing between the pickfaces.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2019Date of Patent: June 16, 2020Assignee: SYMBOTIC, LLCInventors: Forrest Buzan, Michael Cyrulik, Aria Reynolds, Jason S. Sirois, Larry Sweet, Edward A. MacDonald, Taylor A. Apgar, Timothy Perrault, Stephen C. Toebes
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Patent number: 10681332Abstract: A viewing direction may define an angle/visual portion of a spherical video at which a viewing window is directed. A trajectory of viewing direction may include changes in viewing directions for playback of spherical video. Abrupt changes in the viewing directions may result in jerky or shaky views of the spherical video. Changes in the viewing directions may be stabilized to provide stabilized views of the spherical video. Amount of stabilization may be limited by a margin constraint.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2018Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: GoPro, Inc.Inventors: Daryl Stimm, William Edward MacDonald, Kyler William Schwartz
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Publication number: 20200062504Abstract: An autonomous rover including a frame having a first end and a second end longitudinally spaced from the first end and forming a payload bay, the payload bay being sized to support a pickface, a common active registration surface configured to engage the pickface, and a drive section connected to the common active registration surface, the drive section being configured to variably position the common active registration surface relative to at least one storage shelf of an automated storage and retrieval system to effect placement of the pickface on the storage shelf so that pickfaces are substantially continuously arranged along the at least one storage shelf with a predetermined storage spacing between the pickfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2019Publication date: February 27, 2020Inventors: Forrest Buzan, Michael Cyrulik, Aria Reynolds, Jason S. Sirois, Larry Sweet, Edward A. MacDonald, Taylor A. Apgar, Timothy Perrault, Stephen C. Toebes
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Patent number: 10457484Abstract: An autonomous rover including a frame having a first end and a second end longitudinally spaced from the first end and forming a payload bay, the payload bay being sized to support a pickface, a common active registration surface configured to engage the pickface, and a drive section connected to the common active registration surface, the drive section being configured to variably position the common active registration surface relative to at least one storage shelf of an automated storage and retrieval system to effect placement of the pickface on the storage shelf so that pickfaces are substantially continuously arranged along the at least one storage shelf with a predetermined storage spacing between the pickfaces.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2018Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: SYMBOTIC, LLCInventors: Forrest Buzan, Michael Cyrulik, Aria Reynolds, Jason S. Sirois, Larry Sweet, Edward A. MacDonald, Taylor A. Apgar, Timothy Perrault, Stephen C. Toebes
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Publication number: 20190256289Abstract: In accordance with one or more aspects of the disclosed embodiment, a lift includes at least one load handling device configured so as to reciprocate along a lift axis, the load handling device including a frame forming a payload section with a payload support surface having a common elevation configured to hold one or more pickfaces at the common elevation of the payload support surface, at least one transfer arm movably mounted to the frame, and a drive section connected to the load handling device and being configured to move the load handling device along the lift axis, wherein the one or more pickfaces carried in unison by the payload support surface of the at least one load handling device, define an order sequence of pickfaces on the at least one load handling device according to a predetermined case out order sequence of mixed cases.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2019Publication date: August 22, 2019Inventors: Kirill K. PANKRATOV, Juergen D. CONRAD, Robert HSIUNG, William JOHNSON, Jr., Edward A. MACDONALD, Larry M. SWEET
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Publication number: 20190193938Abstract: An automated storage and retrieval system including at least one autonomous rover for transferring payload within the system and including a communicator, a multilevel storage structure, each level allowing traversal of the at least one autonomous rover, at least one registration station disposed at predetermined locations on each level and being configured to communicate with the communicator to at least receive rover identification information, and a controller in communication with the at least one registration station and configured to receive the at least rover identification information and at least one of register the at least one autonomous rover as being on a level corresponding to a respective one of the at least one registration station or deregister the at least one autonomous rover from the system, where the controller effects induction of the at least one autonomous rover into a predetermined rover space on the level.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2019Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventors: Forrest Buzan, Edward A. MacDonald, Taylor A. Apgar, Thomas A. Schaefer, Melanie Ziegler, Russell G. Barbour
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Patent number: 10221013Abstract: An automated storage and retrieval system including at least one autonomous rover for transferring payload within the system and including a communicator, a multilevel storage structure, each level allowing traversal of the at least one autonomous rover, at least one registration station disposed at predetermined locations on each level and being configured to communicate with the communicator to at least receive rover identification information, and a controller in communication with the at least one registration station and configured to receive the at least rover identification information and at least one of register the at least one autonomous rover as being on a level corresponding to a respective one of the at least one registration station or deregister the at least one autonomous rover from the system, where the controller effects induction of the at least one autonomous rover into a predetermined rover space on the level.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: Symbotic, LLCInventors: Forrest Buzan, Edward A. MacDonald, Taylor A. Apgar, Thomas A. Schaefer, Melanie Ziegler, Russell G. Barbour
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Patent number: 10214355Abstract: In accordance with one or more aspects of the disclosed embodiment, a lift includes at least one load handling device configured so as to reciprocate along a lift axis, the load handling device including a frame forming a payload section with a payload support surface having a common elevation configured to hold one or more pickfaces at the common elevation of the payload support surface, at least one transfer arm movably mounted to the frame, and a drive section connected to the load handling device and being configured to move the load handling device along the lift axis, wherein the one or more pickfaces carried in unison by the payload support surface of the at least one load handling device, define an order sequence of pickfaces on the at least one load handling device according to a predetermined case out order sequence of mixed cases.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2016Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: Symbotic, LLCInventors: Kirill K. Pankratov, Juergen D. Conrad, Robert Hsiung, William Johnson, Jr., Edward A. MacDonald, Larry M. Sweet