Patents by Inventor James R. Blair

James R. Blair 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: 10438152
    Abstract: Techniques are described for facilitating performance of tasks involving human review of media data (e.g., images, audio clips, video clips, etc.), such as to identify one or more targets of interest. The media data review may be performed for various reasons, such as to assist in locating one or more target objects in a large geographical area (e.g., one or more missing people or vehicles) based on human review of large quantities of images that each correspond to a small subset of the geographical area. When one or more of the reviewed media data pieces are identified as being relevant, information about those identified media data pieces may be used in various ways. Furthermore, in at least some situations, the media data review may be part of a charitable effort that uses human volunteers to review the media data without monetary payment or other compensation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicole A. Deflaux, James R. Blair, Jang Han Goo, Mark Chien, Luis Felipe Cabrera, Mohamed Reza Hussein
  • Patent number: 5743782
    Abstract: The illuminable toy has replaceable, illuminable edibles, that can be soft or hard crystal candy or any other translucent or transparent food in a figure form which is attached to a holder which is in turn part of or attached to a base. Concealed inside the base are a light source and battery connected to an electrical switch. There are sets of holders having the same size and shape which match to corresponding sets of illuminable edibles having protrusions of the same size and shape. Connected to the base is a cover, which in combination with the inserted illuminable edibles simulates a scene, such as a horror house, a mine cave or a winter scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1998
    Assignee: Ideal Ideas, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth P. Glynn, James R. Blair, II
  • Patent number: 5545069
    Abstract: The illuminable toy has a replaceable, illuminable edible, that can be soft or hard crystal candy or any other translucent or transparent food in a figure form which is attached to a holder which is in turn part of or attached to a base. Concealed inside the base are a light source and battery connected to an electrical switch. The illuminable edible toy can be a simulation toy with more than one replaceable, illuminable edible under a cover. The base can have a cover simulating a coffin or horror house for conveying horror themes, or simulating an egg shell for conveying an Easter celebration theme or a cave for conveying a fairy tale mining cave theme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 13, 1996
    Assignee: Ideal Ideas, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth P. Glynn, James R. Blair, II
  • Patent number: 5003144
    Abstract: An apparatus for the sequential fracturing and cutting of subsurface volume of hard rock (102) in the strata (101) of a mining environment (100) by subjecting the volume of rock to a beam (25) of microwave energy to fracture the subsurface volume of rock by differential expansion; and , then bringing the cutting edge (52) of a piece of conventional mining machinery (50) into contact with the fractured rock (102).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 26, 1991
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Interior
    Inventors: David P. Lindroth, Roger J. Morrell, James R. Blair
  • Patent number: 4809794
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for measuring the quantity of material delivered per cycle by a shovel loader having a bucket (22) that is moved between loaded and unloading positions. During the movement of the bucket in either direction between said positions, determinations are made of the location of the bucket with respect to two spaced points (27) and (17) on the structure (15) supporting the bucket. At the same time determinations are made as to the strain at a particular location in the support structure (15), that strain being related to total weight of the bucket and its contents. The bucket position determinations and the strain determinations are each provided as inputs to a processor programmed to calculate therefrom the weight of the bucket and contents, when loaded and unloaded, to thereby provide the weight of material delivered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1987
    Date of Patent: March 7, 1989
    Inventors: James R. Blair, Timothy W. Riley