Patents by Inventor Kevin Ferguson

Kevin Ferguson 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: 12154526
    Abstract: An image system dynamically updates drive sequences in an image system. Drive sequences are image display settings or display driving characteristics with which a display is operated. The image system may determine the drive sequence at least partially based on input from one or more sensors. For example, the image system may include sensors such as an inertial measurement unit, a light sensor, a camera, a temperature sensor, or other sensors from which sensor data may be collected. The image system may analyze the sensor data to calculate drive sequence settings or to select a drive sequence from a number of predetermined drive sequences. Displaying image content on a display includes providing the display with image data and includes operating the display with various drive sequences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Iverson, Howard V. Goetz, Glen R. Sands, Kevin Ferguson
  • Publication number: 20240386731
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided herein for automatic object classification. In an example, a method includes receiving one or more images of a plate including a plurality of wells, each well including a plurality of cells, the plurality of wells including a first control well, a second control well, and at least one test well, classifying one or more cells from the at least one test well using a trained classification model, the trained classification model trained based on training data including instance images of the first control well and the second control well formed from the one or more images of the plate and further based on an effect size loss function, and outputting an indication of the classified one or more cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Inventors: Kevin Ferguson, Luke Ternes
  • Publication number: 20240328948
    Abstract: Methods and system are provided herein for crosstalk mitigation, such as the removal of crosstalk interference from a microscopy image signal to recover an intended image from the image signal. In one example, a method includes determining a weighted interference signal of a microscopy image by determining a weighting constant of the weighted interference signal that provides a minimum variance, removing the weighted interference signal from an overall signal, and determining the intended image signal based on removal of the weighted interference signal from the overall signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventor: Kevin Ferguson
  • Publication number: 20240329382
    Abstract: Methods and system are provided herein for crosstalk mitigation, such as the removal of crosstalk interference from a microscopy image signal to recover an intended image from the image signal. In one example, a method includes accumulating a plurality of weighting constant values and variance data to determine a weighting constant of a weighted interference signal of a microscopy image, wherein determining the weighting constant comprises fitting the plurality of weighting constant values and variance data to a quadratic curve; determining the weighted interference signal of the microscopy image based on the weight constant; removing the weighted interference signal from an overall image signal of the microscopy image; and determining a recovered image signal based on removal of the weighted interference signal from the overall image signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventor: Kevin Ferguson
  • Publication number: 20240274101
    Abstract: An image system dynamically updates drive sequences in an image system. Drive sequences are image display settings or display driving characteristics with which a display is operated. The image system may determine the drive sequence at least partially based on input from one or more sensors. For example, the image system may include sensors such as an inertial measurement unit, a light sensor, a camera, a temperature sensor, or other sensors from which sensor data may be collected. The image system may analyze the sensor data to calculate drive sequence settings or to select a drive sequence from a number of predetermined drive sequences. Displaying image content on a display includes providing the display with image data and includes operating the display with various drive sequences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Andrew Iverson, Howard V. Goetz, Glen R. Sands, Kevin Ferguson
  • Patent number: 12004656
    Abstract: A power shop stool that is battery powered and is a personal lifting device. The combination of components leads to a small compact device and allows a worker to adjust the seat height from 6? to 24? from floor lever in a vertical up and down fashion and it has the capability of stopping anywhere in between 6 inches and 24 inches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Inventors: Eric Brittingham, Kevin Ferguson
  • Patent number: 11893957
    Abstract: An image system dynamically updates drive sequences in an image system. Drive sequences are image display settings or display driving characteristics with which a display is operated. The image system may determine the drive sequence at least partially based on input from one or more sensors. For example, the image system may include sensors such as an inertial measurement unit, a light sensor, a camera, a temperature sensor, or other sensors from which sensor data may be collected. The image system may analyze the sensor data to calculate drive sequence settings or to select a drive sequence from a number of predetermined drive sequences. Displaying image content on a display includes providing the display with image data and includes operating the display with various drive sequences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Iverson, Howard V. Goetz, Glen R. Sands, Kevin Ferguson
  • Publication number: 20230368549
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided herein for automatic image assessment, such as the assessment of image quality or feature classification/quantification, by comparing two or more images. In one example, a method may include outputting a metric indicating a degree of similarity between a test image and a reference image for a selected characteristic based on an intersection over union calculation applied to spatial frequency domain transforms of the test image and the reference image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventor: Kevin Ferguson
  • Publication number: 20230347186
    Abstract: This disclosure involves systems and an apparatus for an in-mask display and mounting system for a display to be integrated into a positive pressure mask. In certain enclosed environments, emergency masks are used as a backup source of breathable atmosphere in the event the regular atmosphere becomes unusable. While the mask may enable breathing, smoke or other environmental factors may inhibit visibility. This disclosure provides an in-mask display, and mounting system to provide critical information to the user, regardless of visibility external to the mask. A mechanism is provided to allow the display to be translated vertically within the mask, allowing the user to align the display with their eyes. The display must also be mounted in a manner that minimizes mask penetrations and rejects any heat generated by the display outside of the mask.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Nathan Klatt, Jean-Claude de Sugny, Michael Huynh, Kevin Ferguson, Divya Prasannan
  • Publication number: 20230230558
    Abstract: An image system dynamically updates drive sequences in an image system. Drive sequences are image display settings or display driving characteristics with which a display is operated. The image system may determine the drive sequence at least partially based on input from one or more sensors. For example, the image system may include sensors such as an inertial measurement unit, a light sensor, a camera, a temperature sensor, or other sensors from which sensor data may be collected. The image system may analyze the sensor data to calculate drive sequence settings or to select a drive sequence from a number of predetermined drive sequences. Displaying image content on a display includes providing the display with image data and includes operating the display with various drive sequences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Andrew Iverson, Howard V. Goetz, Glen R. Sands, Kevin Ferguson
  • Publication number: 20230198769
    Abstract: Opt-out systems and methods for tailored advertising are disclosed herein. An example method includes registering an endpoint with a service provider hosting an opt-out service that allows users to opt-out of tailored advertising from the endpoint, receiving a first request from a user including an email address, generating a hashed representation of the email address according to a hashing algorithm selected for the endpoint, transmitting a second request to the endpoint, the second request including the hashed representation of the email address, and receiving an acknowledgment that the endpoint has processed the second request. When the second request is processed the user does not receive the tailored advertising from the endpoint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Leigh Morrow Parsons Freund, Antoni Matyjaszewski, Julie Karasik, Justin Davis, Kevin Ferguson
  • Publication number: 20230048323
    Abstract: A power shop stool that is battery powered and is a personal lifting device. The combination of components leads to a small compact device and allows a worker to adjust the seat height from 6? to 24? from floor lever in a vertical up and down fashion and it has the capability of stopping anywhere in between 6 inches and 24 inches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Eric Brittingham, Kevin Ferguson
  • Patent number: 11580929
    Abstract: An image system dynamically updates drive sequences in an image system. Drive sequences are image display settings or display driving characteristics with which a display is operated. The image system may determine the drive sequence at least partially based on input from one or more sensors. For example, the image system may include sensors such as an inertial measurement unit, a light sensor, a camera, a temperature sensor, or other sensors from which sensor data may be collected. The image system may analyze the sensor data to calculate drive sequence settings or to select a drive sequence from a number of predetermined drive sequences. Displaying image content on a display includes providing the display with image data and includes operating the display with various drive sequences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Iverson, Howard Goetz, Glen Sands, Kevin Ferguson
  • Publication number: 20210210046
    Abstract: An image system dynamically updates drive sequences in an image system. Drive sequences are image display settings or display driving characteristics with which a display is operated. The image system may determine the drive sequence at least partially based on input from one or more sensors. For example, the image system may include sensors such as an inertial measurement unit, a light sensor, a camera, a temperature sensor, or other sensors from which sensor data may be collected. The image system may analyze the sensor data to calculate drive sequence settings or to select a drive sequence from a number of predetermined drive sequences. Displaying image content on a display includes providing the display with image data and includes operating the display with various drive sequences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2019
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Andrew Iverson, Howard Goetz, Glen Sands, Kevin Ferguson
  • Patent number: 9986376
    Abstract: A system comprising a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to determine an identification for a user; determine a location of the user; retrieve a first set of information related to the location and the identification; retrieve relationship information using the identification for the user; determine notification information by filtering the first set of information using the relationship information; generate a notification related to the location of the user and including the notification information; and provide the notification for presentation to the user. The disclosure also includes similar methods and computer program products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Mario Ventura Anima, James Kevin Rodgers, Kevin Ferguson
  • Patent number: 9693186
    Abstract: A system comprising a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to determine an identification for a user; determine a location of the user; determine a place associated with the location; identify an interaction capable of being performed at the place for the identification; communicate with a service to perform the interaction; and record the interaction with the service in a place history associated with the identification. The disclosure also includes similar methods and computer program products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Mario Ventura Anima, James Kevin Rodgers, Kevin Ferguson
  • Patent number: 9514972
    Abstract: Wafer carrier washing and drying apparatus and method, especially useful for the semiconducting industry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Chris Schneller, Scott Roberts, Kathryn Whitaker, Kevin Ferguson, Stephen Islas, Joe Moore, Jim Puissant
  • Patent number: 9436709
    Abstract: The disclosure includes a system and method for discovering content in a topical community. The system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions when executed cause the system to: receive data indicating a first engagement action associated with a content item, the first engagement action performed by a first user; determine a topic associated with the content item; determine a topical reputation score related to the topic for the first user based on one or more second engagement actions performed by one or more second users associated with the content item; determine that the topical reputation score satisfies a reputation threshold; unlock the topic for the first user responsive to the determination that the topical reputation score satisfies the reputation threshold and provide the first user an ability to curate other content items associated with the unlocked topic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Mario Ventura Anima, Ralph Jacob Cressman, Kevin Ferguson, Mikhail Dhruv, Vinay Jain, Jeremy Lazarus, Benson Luk, Umanka Hebbar Karkada, Steve Tsai, James Rodgers, Fengjia Li, Paul Sowden, Jared Hirsch
  • Patent number: 9427659
    Abstract: A system for use in playing a video game, the system acting to measure the movement, motion, acceleration, orientation, and/or position of transponders while being guided by interactive and sensory feedback. A bidirectional communication link to a processing system supporting the video game provides functional movement assessment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: MOTIVA LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Ferguson, Donald Gronachan
  • Patent number: 9355415
    Abstract: The disclosure includes a system and method for providing content recommendation to users on a site. The system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to: receive data describing a page on a site visited by a first user; query one or more sources to retrieve one or more candidate items for the first user; determine one or more source types related to the one or more candidate items; determine one or more scores for the one or more candidate items based on an interest profile and the one or more source types; rank the one or more candidate items; determine that an invitation trigger event causing a presentation of an invitation state occurs; determine that a recommendation trigger event causing a presentation of a recommendation state occurs during the invitation state; and provide a recommendation state to the first user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Mario Ventura Anima, Ralph Jacob Cressman, Mikhail Dhruv, Kevin Ferguson, Umanka Hebbar Karkada, Jeremy Lazarus, Benson Luk