Patents by Inventor James Arthur Whitcomb

James Arthur Whitcomb 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).

  • Patent number: 6941287
    Abstract: A distributed hierarchical evolutionary modeling and visualization of empirical data method and machine readable storage medium for creating an empirical modeling system based upon previously acquired data. The data represents inputs to the systems and corresponding outputs from the system. The method and machine readable storage medium utilize an entropy function based upon information theory and the principles of thermodynamics to accurately predict system outputs from subsequently acquired inputs. The method and machine readable storage medium identify the most information-rich (i.e., optimum) representation of a data set in order to reveal the underlying order, or structure, of what appears to be a disordered system. Evolutionary programming is one method utilized for identifying the optimum representation of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2005
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Akhileswar Ganesh Vaidyanathan, Aaron J. Owens, James Arthur Whitcomb
  • Patent number: 6058209
    Abstract: When identifying an object in an image, very often redundant identifications of the object may occur. The present invention relates to methods of image analysis for resolving such redundant identifications of an object. More specifically, the present invention relates to object identification schemes which obtain multiple representations of the same object. In addition, such identification schemes may identify void, or donut-shaped objects when a single search, or multiples searches, of the image are performed. Further, the present invention is useful in resolving several distinct objects where other identification schemes employing either single or multiple searching have identified these distinct objects as a single clumped object. The present invention may be used, for instance, to determine whether a smaller object is contained within another, larger object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2000
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Akhileswar Ganesh Vaidyanathan, James Arthur Whitcomb
  • Patent number: 5982944
    Abstract: Image analysis methods and systems are used for identifying objects in a background by defining a data space, such as a histogram or a color space. The data space comprises a plurality of sub-spaces, which could be selected based, for example, on a histogram, or on the way pixel values or color parameters cluster in their respective spaces. The threshold values in the data space are selected, a list of all ordered pairs of thresholds is generated to define multiple data sub-spaces, and the image is multiply searched, once in each sub-space for at least one representation of a candidate object, where the candidate object has at least one predetermined attribute value. Valid objects are identified by comparing the candidate object attribute values to a defined set of valid object attribute values contained in a driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Akhileswar Ganesh Vaidyanathan, James Arthur Whitcomb
  • Patent number: 4046972
    Abstract: An electronic key telephone station set includes a plurality of nonlocking line selection buttons. Adjacent each button is a pair of light emitting diode lamps, one for indicating which line selection button has been actuated and one for indicating which ones of other lines having an appearance on the station set are in use. Digital data coupled to and from the station set control the activation of the indicating lamps as well as the type of alerting signal generated to indicate an incoming call. Numerous other features may be advantageously implemented under data stream control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1976
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1977
    Assignee: Bell Telephone Laboratories, Incorporated
    Inventors: Donald Dean Huizinga, Edward William Underhill, James Arthur Whitcomb