Patents by Inventor Joseph R. Owens

Joseph R. Owens 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: 10952680
    Abstract: A bioamplifier for analyzing electroencephalogram (EEG) signals is disclosed. The bioamplifier includes an input terminal for receiving an EEG signal from a plurality of sensors coupled to a user. The bioamplifier also includes an analogue-to-digital converter arranged to receive the EEG signal from the input terminal and convert the EEG signal to a digital EEG signal. A data processing apparatus within the bioamplifier is arranged to receive the digital EEG signal from the analogue-to-digital converter and programmed to process, in real time the digital EEG signal using a first machine learning model to generate a cleaned EEG signal having a higher signal-to-noise ratio than the digital EEG signal. The bioamplifier further includes a power source to provide electrical power to the analogue-to-digital converter and the data processing apparatus. The bioamplifier includes a housing that contains the analogue-to-digital converter, the data processing apparatus, the power source, and the sensor input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: X Development LLC
    Inventors: Sarah Ann Laszlo, Brian John Adolf, Gabriella Levine, Joseph R. Owens, Patricia Prewitt, Philip Edwin Watson
  • Publication number: 20190192083
    Abstract: A bioamplifier for analyzing electroencephalogram (EEG) signals is disclosed. The bioamplifier includes an input terminal for receiving an EEG signal from a plurality of sensors coupled to a user. The bioamplifier also includes an analogue-to-digital converter arranged to receive the EEG signal from the input terminal and convert the EEG signal to a digital EEG signal. A data processing apparatus within the bioamplifier is arranged to receive the digital EEG signal from the analogue-to-digital converter and programmed to process, in real time the digital EEG signal using a first machine learning model to generate a cleaned EEG signal having a higher signal-to-noise ratio than the digital EEG signal. The bioamplifier further includes a power source to provide electrical power to the analogue-to-digital converter and the data processing apparatus. The bioamplifier includes a housing that contains the analogue-to-digital converter, the data processing apparatus, the power source, and the sensor input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Sarah Ann Laszlo, Brian John Adolf, Gabriella Levine, Joseph R. Owens, Patricia Prewitt, Philip Edwin Watson
  • Patent number: 4303394
    Abstract: A computer generated image simulator is disclosed for scanning a visual target and then providing a visual image of the target which is to be displayed upon a reflective display screen such that a trainee pilot may observe the target. A head tracker which monitors the position of the trainee pilot's head, and an eye tracker which monitors the position of the trainee pilot's eyes, respectively provide head and eye orientation signals to be processed by electronic circuitry such that the target which is projected upon the reflective display screen by a helmet mounted projector will be orientated upon the screen in accordance with the orientation of the trainee pilot's head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1981
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Herbert Berke, John H. Allen, Joseph R. Owen
  • Patent number: 4303868
    Abstract: A sawtooth waveform circuit for a cathode ray tube display apparatus or the ike is disclosed for providing a sawtooth waveform signal in synchronization with the uniformly spaced pulses of a sync signal. A direct current voltage is supplied to an integrator which produces a ramp voltage. Switching means responsive to each pulse of the sync signal shorts the integrator so as to cause the ramp voltage to appear at the output of the integrator as a sawtooth waveform signal. A summing amplifier amplifies the sawtooth waveform signal, and then combines the amplified sawtooth waveform signal with a variable direct current voltage generated by a head tracker so as to provide at the output of the summing amplifier a raster drive signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 1, 1981
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Herbert Berke, John H. Allen, Joseph R. Owen
  • Patent number: 3950612
    Abstract: A synthetic motion generator system including a TV camera positioned to rrd a still life scene and a TV monitor connected to receive video signals from the TV camera and in which the vertical and/or horizontal sweep input to the camera is modulated by apparatus including a tuneable oscillator, a sawtooth generator and logic converter and sample and hold circuitry to provide to the camera sweep circuit a modulating signal which is a multiple of the television frame rate, plus or minus a few cycles per second, to thereby generate desired motion in the monitor display image. The invention is particularly applicable to the generation of sea wave motion from a still seascape scene and in this environment the invention includes not only the development of wave motion, but of speed and amplitude control as well as apparent direction variation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 13, 1976
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Joseph R. Owen, Carl R. Driskell