Patents by Inventor Gail Shepter

Gail Shepter 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).

  • Modifying digital images to increase interest level
    Patent number: 9014509
    Abstract: A method for increasing the interest level of a digital image to a particular person based on an interest level function that determines an interest level of a particular digital image to the particular person responsive to familiarity levels of image elements in the particular digital image. The initial digital image includes one or more image elements having associated initial familiarity levels, the initial digital image having an initial interest level as characterized by the interest level function responsive to the initial familiarity levels. The set of image elements are modified, thereby providing a modified digital image having an increased interest level to the particular person as characterized by the interest level function responsive to modified familiarity levels associated with the modified image elements. The modified digital image is then displayed to the particular person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Intellectual Ventures Fund 83 LLC
    Inventors: Elena A. Fedorovskaya, Jeffrey Clarence Snyder, Andrew F. Kurtz, Sharon Lynn Chu Yew Yee, Gail Shepter
  • SYSTEM FOR MODIFYING IMAGES TO INCREASE INTERESTINGNESS
    Publication number: 20140002644
    Abstract: A system for implementing a method for displaying a modified digital image having an improved interest level to a particular person based on an interest level function that determines an interest level of a particular digital image to the particular person responsive to familiarity levels of image elements in the particular digital image. An initial digital image includes one or more image elements having associated initial familiarity levels, the initial digital image having an initial interest level as characterized by the interest level function responsive to the initial familiarity levels. The set of image elements are modified, thereby providing a modified digital image having an increased interest level to the particular person as characterized by the interest level function responsive to modified familiarity levels associated with the modified image elements. The modified digital image is then displayed to the particular person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventors: Elena A. Fedorovskaya, Jeffrey Clarence Snyder, Andrew F. Kurtz, Sharon Lynn Chu Yew Yee, Gail Shepter
  • MODIFYING DIGITAL IMAGES TO INCREASE INTEREST LEVEL
    Publication number: 20140003737
    Abstract: A method for increasing the interest level of a digital image to a particular person based on an interest level function that determines an interest level of a particular digital image to the particular person responsive to familiarity levels of image elements in the particular digital image. The initial digital image includes one or more image elements having associated initial familiarity levels, the initial digital image having an initial interest level as characterized by the interest level function responsive to the initial familiarity levels. The set of image elements are modified, thereby providing a modified digital image having an increased interest level to the particular person as characterized by the interest level function responsive to modified familiarity levels associated with the modified image elements. The modified digital image is then displayed to the particular person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Inventors: Elena A. Fedorovskaya, Jeffrey Clarence Snyder, Andrew F. Kurtz, Sharon Lynn Chu Yew Yee, Gail Shepter