Patents by Inventor Karen L. Baker

Karen L. Baker 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).

  • Lossless manipulation of media objects
    Patent number: 7239328
    Abstract: An original media object, such as an image, is edited without loss of the data comprising the media object. Changes applied to the media object are defined by metadata associated with the media object. For example, metadata define the cropping of an original JPEG image without loss of the original image. The metadata from a previous editing session can be used to further revising a change to the media object. Preferably, the metadata are stored as a stream in a substorage of an object linking and embedding (OLE) file. For display purposes, and for ease of modification, an edited version of the media object is stored as another stream of data in the substorage of the OLE file. The edited version of the media object is preferably compressed and serves as an intermediate object for faster display during editing and as a surrogate if the original media object is unavailable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Sabrina D. Boler, Karen L. Baker, Robert E. Gruhl, Robert D. Young, Thomas W. Getzinger
  • Lossless manipulation of media objects
    Patent number: 7142225
    Abstract: An original media object, such as an image, is edited without loss of the data comprising the media object. Changes applied to the media object are defined by metadata associated with the media object. For example, metadata define the cropping of an original JPEG image without loss of the original image. The metadata from a previous editing session can be used to further revising a change to the media object. Preferably, the metadata are stored as a stream in a substorage of an object linking and embedding (OLE) file. For display purposes, and for ease of modification, an edited version of the media object is stored as another stream of data in the substorage of the OLE file. The edited version of the media object is preferably compressed and serves as an intermediate object for faster display during editing and as a surrogate if the original media object is unavailable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2006
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Sabrina D. Boler, Karen L. Baker, Robert E. Gruhl, Robert D. Young, Thomas W. Getzinger
  • Activity based remote control unit
    Patent number: 6597374
    Abstract: A remote control for controlling a plurality of controllable devices includes a processor, a display screen coupled to the processor, and memory coupled to the processor. The memory includes a program module to solicit information from a user regarding operation of the plurality of controllable devices to perform an activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2003
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Karen L. Baker, Russell I. Sanchez, Chris E. Tobey
  • Remote control unit
    Patent number: D424060
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2000
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Karen L. Baker, Steven W. Fisher, Steven T. Kaneko, Russell I. Sanchez, Chris E. Tobey