Patents by Inventor Kevin Maurice

Kevin Maurice 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: 8165386
    Abstract: The present invention is an embedded audience measurement platform, which is called HAM. The HAM includes hardware, apparatus, and method for measuring audience data from image stream using dynamically-configurable hardware architecture. The HAM provides an end-to-end solution for audience measurement, wherein reconfigurable computational modules are used as engines per node to power the complete solution implemented in a flexible hardware architecture. The HAM is also a complete system for broad audience measurement, which has various components built into the system. Examples of the components comprise demographics classification, gaze estimation, emotion recognition, behavior analysis, and impression measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Inventors: Hankyu Moon, Kevin Maurice Irick, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Rajeev Sharma, Namsoon Jung
  • Patent number: 8081816
    Abstract: The present invention is an apparatus and method for object recognition from at least an image stream from at least an image frame utilizing at least an artificial neural network. The present invention further comprises means for generating multiple components of an image pyramid simultaneously from a single image stream, means for providing the active pixel and interlayer neuron data to at least a subwindow processor, means for multiplying and accumulating the product of a pixel data or interlayer data and a synapse weight, and means for performing the activation of an accumulation. The present invention allows the artificial neural networks to be reconfigurable, thus embracing a broad range of object recognition applications in a flexible way. The subwindow processor in the present invention also further comprises means for performing neuron computations for at least a neuron.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Inventors: Kevin Maurice Irick, Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Hankyu Moon, Rajeev Sharma, Namsoon Jung
  • Patent number: 7850325
    Abstract: A power tool includes a motor, a lighting power source, and a housing assembly defining an axis that supports the motor and the lighting power source. The power tool also includes a lighting assembly with a light and an energy line that transmits energy to the light to thereby provide illumination. The light and the lighting power source are disposed in spaced relationship from each other relative to the axis. Furthermore, the power tool includes a light holder supported by the housing assembly. The light holder supports the light and a portion of the energy line such that an end of the energy line unsupportedly extends beyond the light holder and electrically couples to the lighting power source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Paxton Wall, Craig A. Carroll, Kevin Maurice Alston
  • Publication number: 20090141482
    Abstract: A power tool includes a motor, a lighting power source, and a housing assembly defining an axis that supports the motor and the lighting power source. The power tool also includes a lighting assembly with a light and an energy line that transmits energy to the light to thereby provide illumination. The light and the lighting power source are disposed in spaced relationship from each other relative to the axis. Furthermore, the power tool includes a light holder supported by the housing assembly. The light holder supports the light and a portion of the energy line such that an end of the energy line unsupportedly extends beyond the light holder and electrically couples to the lighting power source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2008
    Publication date: June 4, 2009
    Applicant: The Black & Decker Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel P. Wall, Craig A. Carroll, Kevin Maurice Alston
  • Publication number: 20080059256
    Abstract: An event management and marketing system is provided. In one implementation, the event management and marketing system includes a planning module to receive user input entering a name of an event, and a marketing module to present to the user a plurality of different marketing strategies for marketing the event; receive user input selecting one or more of the of different marketing strategies; and generate an output corresponding to each marketing strategy selected by the user, each respective output to be used in execution of the corresponding marketing strategy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2006
    Publication date: March 6, 2008
    Inventor: Kevin Maurice Lynch
  • Publication number: 20050236245
    Abstract: A wear ring that surrounds a friction disk to improve the life and performance of a clutch. The wear ring may further facilitate braking action. A hub retains a helical spring that wraps down upon the wear ring to actuate the clutch. The helical spring is at least partially retained by a lip formed on the hub.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2005
    Publication date: October 27, 2005
    Inventors: Kevin Maurice, Stephen Nyquist, Kenneth Bosley