Patents by Inventor John Breeding

John Breeding 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).

  • Publication number: 20120324424
    Abstract: According to exemplary embodiments, method and systems for software accessibility testing are provided. Aspects of the exemplary embodiments include: obtaining accessibility information on content of a graphical user interface (GUI) of software under test, wherein accessibility information is content of the GUI for which describing text is available or content of the GUI which is accessible by keyboard use; determining content of the GUI which should not be available in a test due to a lack of accessibility information; restricting the GUI to restrict access to the content not available; and providing the restricted GUI to a user for testing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2011
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert John Breeds, James Stuart Taylor
  • Publication number: 20070269093
    Abstract: A system for generating time-of-flight (TOF) positron emission tomography (PET) projection data includes a direct memory access rebinner constructed as a digital FPGA pipeline for rebinning TOF coincidence data in accordance with a number of projection space mapping algorithms, such as single-slice rebinning (SSRB) and reduced multiple-slice rebinning (MSRB), together with less precise transaxial and/or axial sampling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2007
    Publication date: November 22, 2007
    Applicant: Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
    Inventors: William Jones, John Breeding, Michael Casey
  • Publication number: 20050253075
    Abstract: A projection data rebinning device for nearest-neighbor rebinning in Positron Emission Tomography (PET) using on-line 3D axial LOR-to-bin mapping. The PETLINKā„¢ DMA Rebinner (PDR) of the present invention includes a PCI card for on-line translation of detector-pair event packets into bin-address packets. The PDR delivers accurate axial and transaxial LOR nearest-neighbor rebinning and enables the more oblique LOR to be mapped into the proper sinogram bins. The PDR is used in association with hardware architecture in electrical communication with a medical imaging device. The data acquisition architecture includes a processor, random access memory (RAM), an operating system, and a data storage device. The PDR includes a plurality of FPGAs and flash chips. The FPGAs are in communication with each other via a high-bandwidth connection. The flash memory chips are used for look-up tables. The PDR performs on-line translation of detector-pair event packets into bin-address packets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2005
    Publication date: November 17, 2005
    Applicant: CTI PET Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: William Jones, John Breeding, Bryan Castleberry, Johnny Reed
  • Publication number: 20050140090
    Abstract: A card shuffler and method in which recovery from a card jam can be performed. Sensors detect a jam and a program directs jam recovery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2004
    Publication date: June 30, 2005
    Inventors: John Breeding, Atilla Grauzer, Paul Scheper, James Stasson, Nicholas Kukuczka