Patents by Inventor Frederic Gouin

Frederic Gouin 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).

  • Publication number: 20080158049
    Abstract: A method for creating minimal data representing a source image is presented. The source image is divided into a grid of cells. A color is selected for each cell corner based on sampling an area defined by the cell corner. An indication of the selected color is stored in an array dependent on the co-ordinates of the cell corner in the source image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2008
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Inventors: David A. Southard, Lowell F. Bell, Michael A. Aucoin, Frederic Gouin, Theodore H. Cannaday.
  • Publication number: 20080040038
    Abstract: A method for creating minimal data representing a source image is presented. The source image is divided into a grid of cells. A color is selected for each cell corner based on sampling an area defined by the cell corner. An indication of the selected color is stored in an array dependent on the co-ordinates of the cell corner in the source image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2006
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Inventors: David Southard, Lowell Bell, Michael Aucoin, Frederic Gouin, Theodore Cannaday
  • Patent number: 5938072
    Abstract: A coin roll dispenser has a number of coin magazines each filled with rolls of coins of a given denomination and removably seated within a housing. Each magazine has a motorized conveyor adapted to receive and sequentially dispense individual coin rolls through a discharge aperture into a discharge passage which transports the coin rolls dispensed from the magazines to a receptacle from which they may be removed by a purchaser. Dispensing is controlled by activating the conveyor in selected magazines. A first sensor detects the coin rolls as they are dispensed from the magazines and a sensor in advance of the receptacle produces a total count which is compared with the total ordered and the total from the first sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1999
    Assignee: Magner Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Lamoureux, Frederic Morin, Frederic Gouin