Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Small

Jeffrey Small 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: 10303458
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for multi-platform installers. In some embodiments, a computing system can launch a software package configured to perform a software installation at the computing system. The software package can then detect an underlying computing environment associated with the computing system, the underlying computing environment including a type of system, software characteristics, and/or hardware characteristics. Based on the detected underlying computing environment, the software package can select settings for a configuration update on the computing system. The settings can define network configuration parameters, system firmware parameters, drive configuration parameters, system boot drive configuration parameters, etc. Based on the settings, the software package can execute the configuration update on the computing system, and install a software application on the computing system, based on the configuration update.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LP
    Inventors: Amine Ouarraoui, Hugh Jeffrey Small, Paul Cevoli, Junfeng Song
  • Patent number: 9785217
    Abstract: In a method of operating a touch screen, an object interaction is detected with the touch screen while in a first doze mode. It is determined if a detected object interaction with the touch screen is a valid input object interaction with the touch screen. In response to determining the object interaction is a valid input object interaction, the touch screen is transitioned from the first doze mode to a gesture recognition mode. The touch screen is transitioned from the gesture recognition mode to an active mode in response to a determination of a valid gesture interaction with the touch screen by the input object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Adam Schwartz, Joel Jordan, Joseph Kurth Reynolds, Jeffrey Small, Stepan Starchenko, Petr Shepelev
  • Patent number: 9652060
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention generally provide a touch screen controller coupled to a touch sensor, a display, and a central processing unit. The touch screen controller is configured to detect first touch input received by the touch sensor and change a visual characteristic of the display upon detecting the first touch input. Detecting the first touch input and changing the visual characteristic are performed while the central processing unit is in a sleep state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Jeffrey Small
  • Patent number: 9582093
    Abstract: A passive pen includes a pen body, and a tip disposed at a first end of the pen body. The tip capacitively couples to the pen body, and the capacitive coupling is configured to change the tip from a first ground mass state to a second ground mass state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Tom Vandermeijden, Christopher Weber, Doug Krumpelman, Jeffrey Small
  • Patent number: 9310951
    Abstract: A processing system for an input device includes a receiver module and a charge distributor. The receiver module includes a first charge integrator coupled to a first sensor electrode and configured to integrate a charge on the first sensor electrode. The charge distributor includes a current conveyor and a plurality of output stages coupled to the current conveyor, wherein a first output stage of the plurality of output stages comprises a plurality of current mirrors and is configured to output a first scaled mirrored charge to offset the charge integrated by the first charge integrator, wherein the first scaled mirrored charge is based on a charge signal provided via the current conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Marshall J Bell, Jeffrey Small
  • Publication number: 20150331506
    Abstract: A passive pen includes a pen body, and a tip disposed at a first end of the pen body. The tip capacitively couples to the pen body, and the capacitive coupling is configured to change the tip from a first ground mass state to a second ground mass state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventors: Tom Vandermeijden, Christopher Weber, Doug Krumpelman, Jeffrey Small
  • Patent number: 9189880
    Abstract: A touch screen controller is configured for use in an electronic system. The electronic system comprises: the touch screen controller, a host processing system physically distinct from the touch screen controller, a display screen, and a proximity sensor element. The touch screen controller comprises proximity sensor control circuitry, a rendering module, and display refresh circuitry. The proximity sensor control circuitry is configured to operate the proximity sensor element to sense input objects in a sensing region of the electronic system. The rendering module is configured to render three-dimensional object representations for display on the display screen. The display refresh circuitry is configured to update the display screen with an image received from and processed by the host processing system and with the three-dimensional object representation rendered by the rendering module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventor: Jeffrey Small
  • Publication number: 20150049060
    Abstract: A processing system for an input device includes a receiver module and a charge distributor. The receiver module includes a first charge integrator coupled to a first sensor electrode and configured to integrate a charge on the first sensor electrode. The charge distributor includes a current conveyor and a plurality of output stages coupled to the current conveyor, wherein a first output stage of the plurality of output stages comprises a plurality of current mirrors and is configured to output a first scaled mirrored charge to offset the charge integrated by the first charge integrator, wherein the first scaled mirrored charge is based on a charge signal provided via the current conveyor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Marshall J BELL, Jeffrey SMALL
  • Patent number: 8928359
    Abstract: A charge distributor comprises a charge generator configured to output a charge, a current conveyor, and a plurality of output stages. The current conveyor is configured to receive the charge from the charge generator as an input and to couple this charge to a plurality of output stages. A first output stage, of the plurality of output stages, comprises a plurality of current mirrors. The plurality of current mirrors is configured to mirror and scale the charge received from the current conveyor into a scaled mirrored charge. The first output stage is configured to provide the scaled mirrored charge as an output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
    Inventors: Marshall J Bell, Jeffrey Small
  • Publication number: 20150002406
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention generally provide a touch screen controller coupled to a touch sensor, a display, and a central processing unit. The touch screen controller is configured to detect first touch input received by the touch sensor and change a visual characteristic of the display upon detecting the first touch input. Detecting the first touch input and changing the visual characteristic are performed while the central processing unit is in a sleep state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Publication date: January 1, 2015
    Inventor: Jeffrey SMALL
  • Publication number: 20140333368
    Abstract: A charge distributor comprises a charge generator configured to output a charge, a current conveyor, and a plurality of output stages. The current conveyor is configured to receive the charge from the charge generator as an input and to couple this charge to a plurality of output stages. A first output stage, of the plurality of output stages, comprises a plurality of current mirrors. The plurality of current mirrors is configured to mirror and scale the charge received from the current conveyor into a scaled mirrored charge. The first output stage is configured to provide the scaled mirrored charge as an output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2013
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Marshall J. BELL, Jeffrey Small
  • Publication number: 20140092031
    Abstract: In a method of operating a touch screen, an object interaction is detected with the touch screen while in a first doze mode. It is determined if a detected object interaction with the touch screen is a valid input object interaction with the touch screen. In response to determining the object interaction is a valid input object interaction, the touch screen is transitioned from the first doze mode to a gesture recognition mode. The touch screen is transitioned from the gesture recognition mode to an active mode in response to a determination of a valid gesture interaction with the touch screen by the input object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Adam SCHWARTZ, Joel JORDAN, Joseph Kurth REYNOLDS, Jeffrey SMALL, Stepan STARCHENKO, Petr SHEPELEV
  • Publication number: 20130027386
    Abstract: A touch screen controller is configured for use in an electronic system. The electronic system comprises: the touch screen controller, a host processing system physically distinct from the touch screen controller, a display screen, and a proximity sensor element. The touch screen controller comprises proximity sensor control circuitry, a rendering module, and display refresh circuitry. The proximity sensor control circuitry is configured to operate the proximity sensor element to sense input objects in a sensing region of the electronic system. The rendering module is configured to render three-dimensional object representations for display on the display screen. The display refresh circuitry is configured to update the display screen with an image received from and processed by the host processing system and with the three-dimensional object representation rendered by the rendering module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Inventor: Jeffrey Small
  • Publication number: 20120320096
    Abstract: A gamma curve voltage generator circuit comprises a first linear resistor string and a second linear resistor string. The first linear resistor string comprises resistors of a first resistor value and corresponds to a first portion of a gamma curve. A first end of the first linear resistor string is ohmically coupled to a first end of the second linear resistor string. The second linear resistor string comprises resistors of a second resistor value and corresponds to a second portion of the gamma curve. The first resistor value is different from the second resistor value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2011
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Inventor: Jeffrey Small
  • Publication number: 20070139526
    Abstract: A digital imaging system is provided that includes a digital camera and a color printer. The digital camera comprises: a housing; an image sensor adapted to capture analog image data; an analog-to-digital converter adapted to convert the analog image data; an image processor adapted to perform first processing and compression of the digital image data to create a first-processed digital image file; a digital memory in the camera housing having a plurality of the first-processed digital image files stored in the digital memory; and a color printer interface to which a digital image file, which is selected from the digital memory, is applied. The color printer comprises: a color-marking apparatus, and a digital camera interface, wherein the image processor in the digital camera is adapted to perform second processing on the selected digital image file before the selected digital image file is applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2007
    Publication date: June 21, 2007
    Inventors: Kenneth Parulski, Jeffrey Small, Douglas Couwenhoven, Jason VanBlargan, Raymond Wess
  • Publication number: 20050190265
    Abstract: A system wherein already-existing computing and memory resources in an electronic camera are used to process an image for printing. Rather than duplicating, in printers, computing and memory resources that are already in digital cameras, significant computing and memory resources need exist only in the camera. A digital camera can support many different printers, each with its own set of parameters such as for example print size, pixel size, colorimetry, sensitometry, and artifacts compensation. Printer parameters are uploaded from the printer to the camera to provide a basis for image processing specific to the associated printer; whereby compensation may be done for variations in the printer characteristics which may occur as a result of printer manufacturing variations, and further so that compensation may be done for different media types which may be installed in the printer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2005
    Publication date: September 1, 2005
    Inventor: Jeffrey Small
  • Patent number: 6749212
    Abstract: A bicycle trailer hitch or accessory mount uses a trailer tongue or accessory receiving flange on a body with a pin that is rotatably and removably carried in a integrally mounted bicycle frame socket, the body and socket each having a corresponding bearing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: Trek Bicycle Corporation
    Inventors: Aaron Christopher Mock, Jeffrey Small
  • Publication number: 20030155737
    Abstract: A bicycle trailer hitch or accessory mount uses a trailer tongue or accessory receiving flange on a body with a pin that is rotatably and removably carried in a integrally mounted bicycle frame socket, the body and socket each having a corresponding bearing surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2002
    Publication date: August 21, 2003
    Inventors: Aaron Christopher Mock, Jeffrey Small