Patents by Inventor Kurt M. Eaton
Kurt M. Eaton 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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Publication number: 20220048135Abstract: Numerous embodiments are disclosed. In one, a laser-processing apparatus includes a positioner arranged within a beam path along which a beam of laser energy is propagatable. A controller may be used to control an operation of the positioner to deflect the beam path within first and second primary angular ranges, and to deflect the beam path to a plurality of angles within each of the first and second primary angular ranges. In another, an integrated beam dump system includes a frame; and a pickoff mirror and beam dump coupled to the frame. In still another, a wavefront correction optic includes a mirror having a reflective surface having a shape characterized by a particular ratio of fringe Zernike terms Z4 and Z9. Many more embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2020Publication date: February 17, 2022Inventors: James Brookhyser, Jan Kleinert, Mark Kosmowski, Timothy Nuckolls, Jered Richter, Fumiyo Yoshino, Steve Meliza, Mehmet Alpay, Yuan Liu, Kurt M. Eaton
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Patent number: 11185957Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention can be characterized as a method for controlling a multi-axis machine tool that includes obtaining a preliminary rotary actuator command (wherein the rotary actuator command has frequency content exceeding a bandwidth of a rotary actuator), generating a processed rotary actuator command based, at least in part, on the preliminary rotary actuator command, the processed rotary actuator command having frequency content within a bandwidth of the rotary actuator and generating a first linear actuator command and a second linear actuator command based, at least in part, on the processed rotary actuator command. The processed rotary actuator command can be output to the rotary actuator, the first linear actuator command can be output to a first linear actuator and the second linear actuator command can be output to a second linear actuator.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2020Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: ELECTRO SCIENTIFIC INDUSTRIES, INCInventors: Guang Lu, Mehmet E. Alpay, Mike Tyler, Qian Xu, Jan Kleinert, Zhibin Lin, James D. Brookhyser, Ho Wai Lo, Kurt M. Eaton
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Publication number: 20200246929Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention can be characterized as a method for controlling a multi-axis machine tool that includes obtaining a preliminary rotary actuator command (wherein the rotary actuator command has frequency content exceeding a bandwidth of a rotary actuator), generating a processed rotary actuator command based, at least in part, on the preliminary rotary actuator command, the processed rotary actuator command having frequency content within a bandwidth of the rotary actuator and generating a first linear actuator command and a second linear actuator command based, at least in part, on the processed rotary actuator command. The processed rotary actuator command can be output to the rotary actuator, the first linear actuator command can be output to a first linear actuator and the second linear actuator command can be output to a second linear actuator.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2020Publication date: August 6, 2020Inventors: Guang Lu, Mehmet E. Alpay, Mike Tyler, Qian XU, Jan Kleinert, Zhibin Lin, James D. Brookhyser, Ho Wai Lo, Kurt M. Eaton
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Patent number: 10654141Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention can be characterized as a method for controlling a multi-axis machine tool that includes obtaining a preliminary rotary actuator command (wherein the rotary actuator command has frequency content exceeding a bandwidth of a rotary actuator), generating a processed rotary actuator command based, at least in part, on the preliminary rotary actuator command, the processed rotary actuator command having frequency content within a bandwidth of the rotary actuator and generating a first linear actuator command and a second linear actuator command based, at least in part, on the processed rotary actuator command. The processed rotary actuator command can be output to the rotary actuator, the first linear actuator command can be output to a first linear actuator and the second linear actuator command can be output to a second linear actuator.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2018Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: ELECTRO SCIENTIFIC INDUSTRIES, INCInventors: Guang Lu, Mehmet E. Alpay, Mike Tyler, Qian Xu, Jan Kleinert, Zhibin Lin, James D. Brookhyser, Ho Wai Lo, Kurt M. Eaton
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Publication number: 20180373959Abstract: Methods and arrangements involving portable user devices such smartphones and wearable electronic devices are disclosed, as well as other devices and sensors distributed within an ambient environment. Some arrangements enable a user to perform an object recognition process in a computationally- and time-efficient manner. Other arrangements enable users and other entities to, either individually or cooperatively, register or enroll physical objects into one or more object registries on which an object recognition process can be performed. Still other arrangements enable users and other entities to, either individually or cooperatively, associate registered or enrolled objects with one or more items of metadata. A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2018Publication date: December 27, 2018Inventors: Geoffrey B. Rhoads, Yang Bai, Tony F. Rodriguez, Eliot Rogers, Ravi K. Sharma, John D. Lord, Scott Long, Brian T. MacIntosh, Kurt M. Eaton
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Patent number: 10152634Abstract: Arrangements are detailed to process imagery of an object, captured by a camera, based on contextual data that at least partially characterizes a condition of the object when the imagery was captured. Contextual data can be obtained directly by a sensor or can be derived by pre-processing the captured imagery. The captured imagery can be processed to detect features such as digital watermarks, fingerprints, barcodes, etc. A great number of other features and arrangements are also detailed.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2016Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Digimarc CorporationInventors: Ajith M. Kamath, Kurt M. Eaton
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Publication number: 20180243872Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention can be characterized as a method for controlling a multi-axis machine tool that includes obtaining a preliminary rotary actuator command (wherein the rotary actuator command has frequency content exceeding a bandwidth of a rotary actuator), generating a processed rotary actuator command based, at least in part, on the preliminary rotary actuator command, the processed rotary actuator command having frequency content within a bandwidth of the rotary actuator and generating a first linear actuator command and a second linear actuator command based, at least in part, on the processed rotary actuator command. The processed rotary actuator command can be output to the rotary actuator, the first linear actuator command can be output to a first linear actuator and the second linear actuator command can be output to a second linear actuator.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2018Publication date: August 30, 2018Inventors: Guang Lu, Mehmet E. Alpay, Mike Tyler, Qian XU, Jan Kleinert, Zhibin Lin, Jim D. Brookhyser, Ho Wai Lo, Kurt M. Eaton
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Patent number: 9990565Abstract: Methods and arrangements involving portable user devices such smartphones and wearable electronic devices are disclosed, as well as other devices and sensors distributed within an ambient environment. Some arrangements enable a user to perform an object recognition process in a computationally- and time-efficient manner. Other arrangements enable users and other entities to, either individually or cooperatively, register or enroll physical objects into one or more object registries on which an object recognition process can be performed. Still other arrangements enable users and other entities to, either individually or cooperatively, associate registered or enrolled objects with one or more items of metadata. A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2016Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: Digimarc CorporationInventors: Geoffrey B. Rhoads, Yang Bai, Tony F. Rodriguez, Eliot Rogers, Ravi K. Sharma, John D. Lord, Scott Long, Brian T. MacIntosh, Kurt M. Eaton
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Patent number: 9981357Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention can be characterized as a method for controlling a multi-axis machine tool that includes obtaining a preliminary rotary actuator command (wherein the rotary actuator command has frequency content exceeding a bandwidth of a rotary actuator), generating a processed rotary actuator command based, at least in part, on the preliminary rotary actuator command, the processed rotary actuator command having frequency content within a bandwidth of the rotary actuator and generating a first linear actuator command and a second linear actuator command based, at least in part, on the processed rotary actuator command. The processed rotary actuator command can be output to the rotary actuator, the first linear actuator command can be output to a first linear actuator and the second linear actuator command can be output to a second linear actuator.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2016Date of Patent: May 29, 2018Assignee: Electro Scientific Industries, Inc.Inventors: Guang Lu, Mehmet E. Alpay, Mike Tyler, Qian Xu, Jan Kleinert, Zhibin Lin, James D. Brookhyser, Ho Wai Lo, Kurt M. Eaton
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Patent number: 9905233Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to signal processing techniques for content signals such as audio, images and video signals. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to processing content signals to facilitate recognition of ambient content signals using digital watermarks and/or digital fingerprints.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2015Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: Digimarc CorporationInventors: Shankar Thagadur Shivappa, Tony F. Rodriguez, Kurt M. Eaton
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Publication number: 20170236037Abstract: Methods and arrangements involving portable user devices such smartphones and wearable electronic devices are disclosed, as well as other devices and sensors distributed within an ambient environment. Some arrangements enable a user to perform an object recognition process in a computationally- and time-efficient manner. Other arrangements enable users and other entities to, either individually or cooperatively, register or enroll physical objects into one or more object registries on which an object recognition process can be performed. Still other arrangements enable users and other entities to, either individually or cooperatively, associate registered or enrolled objects with one or more items of metadata. A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2016Publication date: August 17, 2017Inventors: Geoffrey B. Rhoads, Yang Bai, Tony F. Rodriguez, Eliot Rogers, Ravi K. Sharma, John D. Lord, Scott Long, Brian T. MacIntosh, Kurt M. Eaton
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Publication number: 20160368110Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention can be characterized as a method for controlling a multi-axis machine tool that includes obtaining a preliminary rotary actuator command (wherein the rotary actuator command has frequency content exceeding a bandwidth of a rotary actuator), generating a processed rotary actuator command based, at least in part, on the preliminary rotary actuator command, the processed rotary actuator command having frequency content within a bandwidth of the rotary actuator and generating a first linear actuator command and a second linear actuator command based, at least in part, on the processed rotary actuator command. The processed rotary actuator command can be output to the rotary actuator, the first linear actuator command can be output to a first linear actuator and the second linear actuator command can be output to a second linear actuator.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2016Publication date: December 22, 2016Inventors: Guang Lu, Mehmet E. Alpay, Mike Tyler, Qian XU, Jan Kleinert, Zhibin Lin, James D. Brookhyser, Ho Wai Lo, Kurt M. Eaton
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Publication number: 20160321502Abstract: Arrangements are detailed to process imagery of an object, captured by a camera, based on contextual data that at least partially characterizes a condition of the object when the imagery was captured. Contextual data can be obtained directly by a sensor or can be derived by pre-processing the captured imagery. The captured imagery can be processed to detect features such as digital watermarks, fingerprints, barcodes, etc. A great number of other features and arrangements are also detailed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2016Publication date: November 3, 2016Inventors: Ajith M. Kamath, Kurt M. Eaton
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Patent number: 9269022Abstract: Methods and arrangements involving portable user devices such smartphones and wearable electronic devices are disclosed, as well as other devices and sensors distributed within an ambient environment. Some arrangements enable a user to perform an object recognition process in a computationally- and time-efficient manner. Other arrangements enable users and other entities to, either individually or cooperatively, register or enroll physical objects into one or more object registries on which an object recognition process can be performed. Still other arrangements enable users and other entities to, either individually or cooperatively, associate registered or enrolled objects with one or more items of metadata. A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2014Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: Digimarc CorporationInventors: Geoffrey B. Rhoads, Yang Bai, Tony F. Rodriguez, Eliot Rogers, Ravi K. Sharma, John D. Lord, Scott Long, Brian T. MacIntosh, Kurt M. Eaton
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Patent number: 9202136Abstract: Methods and arrangements involving portable user devices such smartphones and wearable electronic devices are disclosed, as well as other devices and sensors distributed within an ambient environment. Some arrangements enable a user to perform an object recognition process in a computationally- and time-efficient manner. Other arrangements enable users and other entities to, either individually or cooperatively, register or enroll physical objects into one or more object registries on which an object recognition process can be performed. Still other arrangements enable users and other entities to, either individually or cooperatively, associate registered or enrolled objects with one or more items of metadata. A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2014Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: Digimarc CorporationInventors: Geoffrey B. Rhoads, Yang Bai, Tony F. Rodriguez, Eliot Rogers, Ravi K. Sharma, John D. Lord, Scott Long, Brian T. MacIntosh, John Stach, Robert G. Lyons, Kurt M. Eaton
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Publication number: 20150310601Abstract: In some arrangements, product packaging is digitally watermarked over most of its extent to facilitate high-throughput item identification at retail checkouts. Imagery captured by conventional or plenoptic cameras can be processed (e.g., by GPUs) to derive several different perspective-transformed views—further minimizing the need to manually reposition items for identification. One claim recites a system for capturing imagery of retail items supported by a fixture, comprising: at least one camera unit having at least one operative camera to capture imagery of at least a portion of the retail items supported by the fixture; and one or more processors configured to process the captured imagery to discern identifying information associated with the imaged retail items. In one implementation the at least one camera unit comprises a plurality of cameras, wherein a field of view of a first one of the plurality of cameras overlaps with a field of view of a second one of the plurality of camera units.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2015Publication date: October 29, 2015Inventors: Tony F. Rodriguez, Hugh L. Brunk, Kurt M. Eaton
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Publication number: 20150016712Abstract: Methods and arrangements involving portable user devices such smartphones and wearable electronic devices are disclosed, as well as other devices and sensors distributed within an ambient environment. Some arrangements enable a user to perform an object recognition process in a computationally- and time-efficient manner. Other arrangements enable users and other entities to, either individually or cooperatively, register or enroll physical objects into one or more object registries on which an object recognition process can be performed. Still other arrangements enable users and other entities to, either individually or cooperatively, associate registered or enrolled objects with one or more items of metadata. A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2014Publication date: January 15, 2015Applicant: Digimarc CorporationInventors: Geoffrey B. Rhoads, Yang Bai, Tony F. Rodriguez, Eliot Rogers, Ravi K. Sharma, John D. Lord, Scott Long, Brian T. MacIntosh, John Stach, Robert G. Lyons, Kurt M. Eaton