Patents by Inventor Jonathan Foote
Jonathan Foote 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: 9364251Abstract: A system to treat a patient comprises a user interface that allows a physician to view an image of tissue to be treated in order to develop a treatment plan to resect tissue with a predefined removal profile. The image may comprise a plurality of images, and the planned treatment is shown on the images. The treatment probe may comprise an anchor, and the image shown on the screen may have a reference image marker shown on the screen corresponding to the anchor. The planned tissue removal profile can be displayed and scaled to the image of the target tissue of an organ such as the prostate, and the physician can adjust the treatment profile based on the scaled images to provide a treatment profile in three dimensions. The images shown on the display may comprise segmented images of the patient with treatment plan overlaid on the images.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2014Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: PROCEPT BioRobotics CorporationInventors: Nikolai Aljuri, Surag Mantri, Luis Baez, George Surjan, Michael W. Sasnett, Jonathan Foote
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Publication number: 20150335344Abstract: A fluid stream is directed toward tissue to generate a plurality of shedding clouds. The fluid stream can be scanned such that the plurality of shedding clouds arrive a different overlapping locations. Each of the plurality of shedding clouds can remove a portion of the tissue. In many embodiments, an apparatus to ablate tissue comprises a source of pressurized fluid, and a nozzle coupled to the source of pressurized fluid to release a fluid stream, in which the fluid stream generates a plurality of shedding clouds.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2015Publication date: November 26, 2015Inventors: Nikolai ALJURI, Surag MANTRI, Luis BAEZ, George SURJAN, Michael W. SASNETT, Jonathan FOOTE
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Publication number: 20150313666Abstract: A fluid stream is directed toward tissue to generate a plurality of shedding clouds. The fluid stream can be scanned such that the plurality of shedding clouds arrive a different overlapping locations. Each of the plurality of shedding clouds can remove a portion of the tissue. In many embodiments, an apparatus to ablate tissue comprises a source of pressurized fluid, and a nozzle coupled to the source of pressurized fluid to release a fluid stream, in which the fluid stream generates a plurality of shedding clouds.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2015Publication date: November 5, 2015Inventors: Nikolai ALJURI, Surag MANTRI, Luis BAEZ, George SURJAN, Michael W. SASNETT, Jonathan FOOTE
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Publication number: 20150088110Abstract: A system to treat a patient comprises a user interface that allows a physician to view an image of tissue to be treated in order to develop a treatment plan to resect tissue with a predefined removal profile. The image may comprise a plurality of images, and the planned treatment is shown on the images. The treatment probe may comprise an anchor, and the image shown on the screen may have a reference image marker shown on the screen corresponding to the anchor. The planned tissue removal profile can be displayed and scaled to the image of the target tissue of an organ such as the prostate, and the physician can adjust the treatment profile based on the scaled images to provide a treatment profile in three dimensions. The images shown on the display may comprise segmented images of the patient with treatment plan overlaid on the images.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2014Publication date: March 26, 2015Inventors: Nikolai ALJURI, Surag MANTRI, Luis BAEZ, George SURJAN, Michael W. SASNETT, Jonathan FOOTE
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Publication number: 20150088107Abstract: A system to treat a patient comprises a user interface that allows a physician to view an image of tissue to be treated in order to develop a treatment plan to resect tissue with a predefined removal profile. The image may comprise a plurality of images, and the planned treatment is shown on the images. The treatment probe may comprise an anchor, and the image shown on the screen may have a reference image marker shown on the screen corresponding to the anchor. The planned tissue removal profile can be displayed and scaled to the image of the target tissue of an organ such as the prostate, and the physician can adjust the treatment profile based on the scaled images to provide a treatment profile in three dimensions. The images shown on the display may comprise segmented images of the patient with treatment plan overlaid on the images.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2014Publication date: March 26, 2015Inventors: Nikolai ALJURI, Surag MANTRI, Luis BAEZ, George SURJAN, Michael W. SASNETT, Jonathan FOOTE
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Publication number: 20150057646Abstract: A system to treat a patient comprises a user interface that allows a physician to view an image of tissue to be treated in order to develop a treatment plan to resect tissue with a predefined removal profile. The image may comprise a plurality of images, and the planned treatment is shown on the images. The treatment probe may comprise an anchor, and the image shown on the screen may have a reference image marker shown on the screen corresponding to the anchor. The planned tissue removal profile can be displayed and scaled to the image of the target tissue of an organ such as the prostate, and the physician can adjust the treatment profile based on the scaled images to provide a treatment profile in three dimensions. The images shown on the display may comprise segmented images of the patient with treatment plan overlaid on the images.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2014Publication date: February 26, 2015Inventors: Nikolai ALJURI, Surag MANTRI, Luis BAEZ, George SURJAN, Michael W. SASNETT, Jonathan FOOTE
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Patent number: 7699476Abstract: A system for providing a dynamic audio-visual environment using an eSurface situated in a room environment; a projector situated for projecting images onto the eSurface; a camera situated to picture the room environment; a central processor coupled to the eSurface, the projector and the camera. The processor receives pictures from the camera for detecting the location of the eSurface; and controls the projector to aim its projection beam onto the eSurface. The eSurface is a sheet-like surface having the property of accepting optically projected image when powered, and retaining the projected image after the power is turned off.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2006Date of Patent: April 20, 2010Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Laurent Denoue, Eleanor G. Rieffel, Lynn D. Wilcox, Jonathan Foote, David M. Hilbert, Giovanni L. Thione
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Patent number: 7522736Abstract: Systems and methods determine the location of a microphone with an unknown location, given the location of a number of other microphones by determining a difference in an arrival time between a first audio signal generated by and microphone with a known location and a second audio signal generated by another microphone with an unknown location, wherein the first and second audio signals are a representation of a substantially same sound emitted from an acoustic source with a known location; determining, based on at least the determined difference in arrival time, a distance between the acoustic source with the known location and the microphone with the unknown location; and determining, based on the determined distance between the acoustic source with the known location and the microphone with the unknown location, the location of the unknown microphone.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2004Date of Patent: April 21, 2009Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: John Adcock, Jonathan Foote
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Patent number: 7358985Abstract: A computer assisted meeting capture system in which camera selection, camera control and sensor notification of candidate activity event for camera image changes are integrated. The information is displayed on a representation of a room layout. Camera switch suggestions are notified to the operator through the use of low-overhead cognitive cues such as changeable human sensible display characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2001Date of Patent: April 15, 2008Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shingo Uchihashi, John Boreczky, Jonathan Foote
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Publication number: 20080068566Abstract: A system for providing a dynamic audio-visual environment using an eSurface situated in a room environment; a projector situated for projecting images onto the eSurface; a camera situated to picture the room environment; a central processor coupled to the eSurface, the projector and the camera. The processor receives pictures from the camera for detecting the location of the eSurface; and controls the projector to aim its projection beam onto the eSurface. The eSurface is a sheet-like surface having the property of accepting optically projected image when powered, and retaining the projected image after the power is turned off.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2006Publication date: March 20, 2008Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Laurent Denoue, Eleanor G. Rieffel, Lynn D. Wilcox, Jonathan Foote, David M. Hilbert, Giovanni Lorenzo Thione
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Publication number: 20070296807Abstract: Provides a system for detecting an intersection between more than one panoramic video sequence and detecting the orientation of the sequences forming the intersection. Video images and corresponding location data are received. If required, the images and location data is processed to ensure the images contain location data. An intersection between two paths is then derived from the video images by deriving a rough intersection between two images, determining a neighborhood for the two images, and dividing each image in the neighborhood into strips. An identifying value is derived from each strip to create a row of strip values which are then converted to the frequency domain. A distance measure is taken between strips in the frequency domain, and the intersection is determined from the images having the smallest distance measure between them.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2007Publication date: December 27, 2007Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Jonathan Foote, Donald Kimber, Xinding Sun, John Adcock
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Publication number: 20070104390Abstract: Algorithms to show multiple images at the maximum possible resolution are proposed. Rather than reducing the resolution of each image, the portion of each image that is actually shown is reduced. The algorithms select which part of each image is to be shown. In one embodiment of the invention, changing the parameters over time further increases the information displayed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2006Publication date: May 10, 2007Applicant: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jonathan Foote
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Publication number: 20070077059Abstract: A multi-function device that prints information images onto sheets of photo-addressable media is described. The multi-function device is comprised of an image acquisition component, an image generation component, optional image transformation components and an image projector to illuminate the photo-addressable medium with the optionally transformed information images. The effects of ambient light on the photo-addressable medium are reduced by tuning the response characteristics of the photo-addressable medium to respond to the wavelength of the projected light and/or to interpose band-pass filters that reduce non-projected light incident on the photo-addressable medium. Programmable characteristics of the photo-addressable medium are adjustable to compensate for ambient light. Registration marks on the photo-addressable medium allow the alignment of the projected image with the photo-addressable medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2005Publication date: April 5, 2007Inventors: Laurent Denoue, Jonathan Foote, David Hilbert, Eleanor Rieffel, Lynn Wilcox, Anthony Dunnigan
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Publication number: 20060153456Abstract: A system and method for detecting useful images and for ranking images in order of usefulness based on a vignette score describing how closely each one resembles a “vignette,” or a central object or image surrounded by a featureless or deemphasized background. Several methods for determining an image's vignette score are disclosed as examples. Variance ratio analysis entails calculation of the ratio of variance between the edge region of the image and the entire image. Statistical model analysis entails developing a statistical classifier capable of determining a statistical model of each image class based on pre-entered training data. Spatial frequency analysis involves estimating the energy at different spatial frequencies in the central and edge regions and in the image as a whole. A vignette score is calculated as the ratio of mid-frequency energies in the edge region to the mid-frequency energies of the entire image.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2005Publication date: July 13, 2006Applicant: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jonathan Foote
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Publication number: 20060143567Abstract: Video recordings of meetings and scanned paper documents are natural digital documents that come out of a meeting. These can be placed on the Internet for easy access, with links generated between them by matching scanned documents to a segment of the video referencing the scanned document. Furthermore, annotations made on the paper documents during the meeting can be extracted and used as indexes to the video. An orthonormal transform, such as a Digital Cosine Transform (DCT) is used to compare scanned documents to video frames.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2006Publication date: June 29, 2006Applicant: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Patrick Chiu, Jonathan Foote, Andreas Girgensohn, John Boreczky
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Publication number: 20060132607Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a status of a teleconference by determining an approximate delay time and providing a status signal in view of the determined approximate delay time are provided. An approximate delay time is approximately the amount of time that will elapse before an occurrence occurring at a first time, which is captured into an occurrence signal by a source unit, will be experienced at a second time after the occurrence signal is received by at least one receiving unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2004Publication date: June 22, 2006Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Donald Kimber, Kazumasa Murai, Jonathan Foote, Qiong Liu, John Doherty
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Publication number: 20060125921Abstract: A camera array captures plural component images which are combined into a single scene. In one embodiment, each camera of the array is a fixed digital camera. The images from each camera are warped to a common coordinate system and the disparity between overlapping images is reduced using disparity estimation techniques.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2006Publication date: June 15, 2006Applicant: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jonathan Foote
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Patent number: 7027124Abstract: Music videos are automatically produced from source audio and video signals. The music video contains edited portions of the video signal synchronized with the audio signal. An embodiment detects transition points in the audio signal and the video signal. The transition points are used to align in time the video and audio signals. The video signal is edited according to its alignment with the audio signal. The resulting edited video signal is merged with the audio signal to form a music video.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2002Date of Patent: April 11, 2006Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jonathan Foote, Matthew Cooper, Andreas Girgensohn, Shingo Uchihashi
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Publication number: 20060070001Abstract: A system and method for optimizing the visual fidelity of a presentation for a plurality of audience members and a plurality of display devices, comprising: modeling the quality of view available to the plurality of audience members based on: one or more properties of the display devices, a distribution of the display devices, a distribution of the plurality of audience members, and the visual presentation wherein the visual presentation comprises one or more h-slides; and determining an optimal mapping for the one or more h-slides to the plurality of display devices based on the modeling.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2004Publication date: March 30, 2006Applicant: FUJI XEROX CO., LTD.Inventors: Qiong Liu, Donald Kimber, Fan Zhao, Surapong Lertsithichai, Jonathan Foote
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Patent number: 7015954Abstract: A camera array captures plural component images which are combined into a single scene from which “panning” and “zooming” within the scene are performed. In one embodiment, each camera of the array is a fixed digital camera. The images from each camera are warped and blended such that the combined image is seamless with respect to each of the component images. Warping of the digital images is performed via pre-calculated non-dynamic equations that are calculated based on a registration of the camera array. The process of registering each camera in the arrays is performed either manually, by selecting corresponding points or sets of points in two or more images, or automatically, by presenting a source object (laser light source, for example) into a scene being captured by the camera array and registering positions of the source object as it appears in each of the images.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 1999Date of Patent: March 21, 2006Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jonathan Foote, Subutai Ahmad, John Boreczky