Patents by Inventor Jan Spooren
Jan Spooren 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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Patent number: 10192184Abstract: A method of controlling storage of electrical energy by charging and discharging an energy storage device in response to pricing data indicative of future prices of electrical energy over time and energy losses caused by charging and discharging the energy storage device comprises detecting alternating candidate charging and discharging occasions with respect to the pricing data by selecting a next occurrence of a locally minimum price in the pricing data as a candidate charging occasion or a next occurrence of a locally maximum price in the pricing data as a candidate discharging occasion; validating a candidate charging or discharging occasion if the price difference between that candidate charging or discharging occasion and another later price in the pricing data is at least sufficient to compensate for the energy losses caused by charging and discharging the energy storage device; and charging and discharging the energy storage device at the validated charging and discharging occasions, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2013Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignees: SONY CORPORATION, SONY EUROPE LIMITEDInventors: Jan Spooren, Christopher Rutherford
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Patent number: 10084601Abstract: A method comprising generating an auxiliary key based on a secret key which is stored in an electronic device, generating a representation of the auxiliary key, displaying the representation of the auxiliary key on a display of the first electronic device, capturing the representation of the auxiliary key with a camera of a second electronic device, and restoring the auxiliary key from the captured representation of the auxiliary key.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2015Date of Patent: September 25, 2018Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Tom Hostyn, Jan Spooren, Hugo Embrechts, Conor Aylward
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Patent number: 9866709Abstract: It is described an apparatus for determining trends in picture taking activity. The apparatus comprises a meta information accessing unit for accessing a set of meta information, each meta information in the set of meta information being associated with a picture having been taken with a camera device at a respective geographic location and at a respective time. The apparatus further comprises a processing unit for determining trends in picture taking activity based on the set of meta information accessible by the meta information accessing unit.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2014Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: SONY CORPORATIONInventors: Tom Hostyn, Olivier Demarto, Kenny Helsens, Jan Spooren, Philip Marivoet, Teemu Veikko Tapani Pohjola, Magdalena Wasowska, Conor Aylward, Gaetan De Brucker, Joachim Giard, Chris Minnoy
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Publication number: 20150365235Abstract: A method comprising generating an auxiliary key based on a secret key which is stored in an electronic device, generating a representation of the auxiliary key, displaying the representation of the auxiliary key on a display of the first electronic device, capturing the representation of the auxiliary key with a camera of a second electronic device, and restoring the auxiliary key from the captured representation of the auxiliary key.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2015Publication date: December 17, 2015Applicants: Sony Corporation, Sony Europe LimitedInventors: Tom HOSTYN, Jan SPOOREN, Hugo EMBRECHTS, Conor AYLWARD
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Publication number: 20150242405Abstract: It is described a method determining context information of at least one media file stored in a media storage, and matching reference context information with the context information to determine at least one context-matching media file.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2015Publication date: August 27, 2015Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Tom HOSTYN, Chris MINNOY, Kenny HELSENS, Gerard MAAS, Murat Burak MIGDISOGLU, Michel TILMAN, Jan SPOOREN, Philip MARIVOET, Teemu Veikko Tapani POHJOLA, Magdalena WASOWSKA, Conor AYLWARD, Olivier DEMARTO, Gaetan DE BRUCKER, Joachim GIARD
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Publication number: 20150170039Abstract: It is described an apparatus for determining trends in picture taking activity. The apparatus comprises a meta information accessing unit for accessing a set of meta information, each meta information in the set of meta information being associated with a picture having been taken with a camera device at a respective geographic location and at a respective time. The apparatus further comprises a processing unit for determining trends in picture taking activity based on the set of meta information accessible by the meta information accessing unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2014Publication date: June 18, 2015Applicant: Sony CorporationInventors: Tom Hostyn, Olivier Demarto, Kenny Helsens, Jan Spooren, Philip Marivoet, Teemu Veikko Tapani Pohjola, Magdalena Wasowska, Conor Aylward, Gaetan De Brucker, Joachim Giard, Chris Minnoy
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Publication number: 20150112751Abstract: A method of controlling storage of electrical energy by charging and discharging an energy storage device in response to pricing data indicative of future prices of electrical energy over time and energy losses caused by charging and discharging the energy storage device comprises detecting alternating candidate charging and discharging occasions with respect to the pricing data by selecting a next occurrence of a locally minimum price in the pricing data as a candidate charging occasion or a next occurrence of a locally maximum price in the pricing data as a candidate discharging occasion; validating a candidate charging or discharging occasion if the price difference between that candidate charging or discharging occasion and another later price in the pricing data is at least sufficient to compensate for the energy losses caused by charging and discharging the energy storage device; and charging and discharging the energy storage device at the validated charging and discharging occasions, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2013Publication date: April 23, 2015Applicants: SONY CORPORATION, SONY EUROPE LIMITEDInventors: Jan Spooren, Christopher Rutherford
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Patent number: 8832845Abstract: A method of processing media using a first software component and a second software component is described. In the method the first software component is operable to write data to a first buffer and the second software component is operable to read the data from the first buffer, the method comprising: processing the media using the first software component; determining a second buffer location, different to the first buffer location; storing the processed media in the second buffer location; generating an obfuscated handle, wherein the handle identifies the second buffer location; storing the obfuscated handle at the first buffer location; and resolving in the second software component the obfuscated handle using a resolving mechanism and in response to said resolution of the obfuscated handle, retrieving the processed media from the second buffer location identified by the handle.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2011Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignees: Sony Europe Limited, Sony Corporation of AmericaInventors: Jan Spooren, Anatolity Lubashevskiy
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Publication number: 20140228993Abstract: A control apparatus comprises a user control for setting one or more parameters determining the resource consumption and/or production of future resource-consuming and/or producing events by a specific resource consuming and/or production device, the one or more parameters including a time period, longer than the length of each resource-consuming and/or producing event itself, during which the user allows that resource-consuming and/or producing event to take place, the future resource-consuming and/or producing events being associated with a user reward; and a display for displaying, to the user, (i) performance data indicating the predicted effect of setting the parameters on the performance of the resource consuming and/or producing device relative to one or more predetermined user requirements, so that the displayed performance data varies with variations in the one or more parameters set by the user control, and (ii) the user reward associated with at least currently selected parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2013Publication date: August 14, 2014Applicants: Sony Europe Limited, Sony CorporationInventors: Chris MINNOY, Bert Robben, Geert Premereur, Jan Spooren, Alfred Spiessens
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Publication number: 20120054719Abstract: A method of processing media using a first software component and a second software component is described. In the method the first software component is operable to write data to a first buffer and the second software component is operable to read the data from the first buffer, the method comprising: processing the media using the first software component; determining a second buffer location, different to the first buffer location; storing the processed media in the second buffer location; generating an obfuscated handle, wherein the handle identifies the second buffer location; storing the obfuscated handle at the first buffer location; and resolving in the second software component the obfuscated handle using a resolving mechanism and in response to said resolution of the obfuscated handle, retrieving the processed media from the second buffer location identified by the handle.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2011Publication date: March 1, 2012Applicants: Sony Corporation of America, Sony Europe LimitedInventors: Jan Spooren, Anatolity Lubashevskiy
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Publication number: 20020002543Abstract: A system for automated registration of digital content, i.e. a work in electronic form is described, requiring no special human interaction from the content publisher. Before publication, the digital content is electronically and automatically sent to a trusted third party, which generates a time stamped and digitally signed certificate which can be used as proof of publication date.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2001Publication date: January 3, 2002Inventors: Jan Spooren, Anthony Belpaire