Patents by Inventor Lance Lewis

Lance Lewis 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).

  • Publication number: 20250353667
    Abstract: A trash can includes a main container and a lid pivotally coupled to the main container through a lid hinge. The trash can includes an elastic, releasable lid strap extending between the lid and the main container. The lid strap includes a strap lid portion that is releasably coupled to a strap housing portion. The strap lid portion has a first strap fastener in the form of a first hook and loop type fastener. The strap housing portion a second hook and loop type fastener. The first hook and loop type fastener is configured to releasably mate with or be coupled to the second hook and loop type fastener for a release or shearing between the first and second hook and loop type fasteners upon a select pulling or releasing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2024
    Publication date: November 20, 2025
    Inventors: Lindi Lewis, Lance Lewis
  • Patent number: 10198791
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for correcting facial sentiment of digital images. Facial data captured in a target image is analyzed to obtain facial-based sentiment. A favored sentiment is determined based at least in part on the facial-based sentiment. The favored sentiment is then applied to at least one face included in the target image that doesn't reflect the favored sentiment. Analyzing facial data may include detecting facial landmarks that are good indicators of sentiment (e.g., eyes, mouth, eyebrows, jawline, and nose). Such landmarks can be processed, with supervised machine learning, to detect the corresponding facial sentiment. A favored sentiment of the target image is thus identified, and can be applied to one or more non-compliant faces in the target image. In some embodiments, the favored sentiment can be further based on a plurality of additional sentiment indicators, including geo data, text, and/or other images associated with the target image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Srinivasa Madhava Phaneendra Angara, Lance Lewis, Anmol Dhawan
  • Patent number: 10025482
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for facilitating the sharing of digital imaging effects from an image originator to an image recipient. A digital imaging effect is the result of a processing technique that is applied to a digital image in a way that produces a particular visual effect. The processing techniques that underlie digital imaging effects such as these can be defined by parameters that establish how the individual pixels comprising the image are manipulated to achieve the desired visual effect. In certain embodiments such defining parameters can be incorporated into a digital image file that thus contains not only data defining the image itself, but also parameters that define one or more effects that may have been applied to the image. This advantageously allows a recipient of the digital image file to not only view the image, but also to use the incorporated parameters to apply the effect to other images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Bryan O'Neil Hughes, David Howe, Jon Clauson, Lance Lewis
  • Publication number: 20180047137
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for correcting facial sentiment of digital images. Facial data captured in a target image is analyzed to obtain facial-based sentiment. A favored sentiment is determined based at least in part on the facial-based sentiment. The favored sentiment is then applied to at least one face included in the target image that doesn't reflect the favored sentiment. Analyzing facial data may include detecting facial landmarks that are good indicators of sentiment (e.g., eyes, mouth, eyebrows, jawline, and nose). Such landmarks can be processed, with supervised machine learning, to detect the corresponding facial sentiment. A favored sentiment of the target image is thus identified, and can be applied to one or more non-compliant faces in the target image. In some embodiments, the favored sentiment can be further based on a plurality of additional sentiment indicators, including geo data, text, and/or other images associated with the target image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2016
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Applicant: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Srinivasa Madhava Phaneendra Angara, Lance Lewis, Anmol Dhawan
  • Publication number: 20170235476
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for facilitating the sharing of digital imaging effects from an image originator to an image recipient. A digital imaging effect is the result of a processing technique that is applied to a digital image in a way that produces a particular visual effect. The processing techniques that underlie digital imaging effects such as these can be defined by parameters that establish how the individual pixels comprising the image are manipulated to achieve the desired visual effect. In certain embodiments such defining parameters can be incorporated into a digital image file that thus contains not only data defining the image itself, but also parameters that define one or more effects that may have been applied to the image. This advantageously allows a recipient of the digital image file to not only view the image, but also to use the incorporated parameters to apply the effect to other images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Bryan O'Neil Hughes, David Howe, Jon Clauson, Lance Lewis
  • Patent number: 9672647
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for facilitating the sharing of digital imaging effects from an image originator to an image recipient. A digital imaging effect is the result of a processing technique that is applied to a digital image in a way that produces a particular visual effect. The processing techniques that underlie digital imaging effects such as these can be defined by parameters that establish how the individual pixels comprising the image are manipulated to achieve the desired visual effect. In certain embodiments such defining parameters can be incorporated into a digital image file that thus contains not only data defining the image itself, but also parameters that define one or more effects that may have been applied to the image. This advantageously allows a recipient of the digital image file to not only view the image, but also to use the incorporated parameters to apply the effect to other images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Inventors: Bryan O'Neil Hughes, David Howe, Jon Clauson, Lance Lewis
  • Publication number: 20140347386
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for facilitating the sharing of digital imaging effects from an image originator to an image recipient. A digital imaging effect is the result of a processing technique that is applied to a digital image in a way that produces a particular visual effect. The processing techniques that underlie digital imaging effects such as these can be defined by parameters that establish how the individual pixels comprising the image are manipulated to achieve the desired visual effect. In certain embodiments such defining parameters can be incorporated into a digital image file that thus contains not only data defining the image itself, but also parameters that define one or more effects that may have been applied to the image. This advantageously allows a recipient of the digital image file to not only view the image, but also to use the incorporated parameters to apply the effect to other images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2013
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventors: Bryan O'Neil Hughes, David Howe, Jon Clauson, Lance Lewis
  • Patent number: 8423464
    Abstract: Reloadable or non-reloadable prepaid transaction card activation systems are disclosed. More specifically, the system provides a platform for activation of prepaid or stored value transaction cards and capture of customer demographic information, and verification of that information, after the customer has obtained or has been issued a prepaid transaction card. The data capture is performed at activation rather than at point of sale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicole Milne Vollmer, Lance Lewis, Elizabeth Gwen Webb
  • Publication number: 20120323778
    Abstract: Reloadable or non-reloadable prepaid transaction card activation systems are disclosed. More specifically, the system provides a platform for activation of prepaid or stored value transaction cards and capture of customer demographic information, and verification of that information, after the customer has obtained or has been issued a prepaid transaction card. The data capture is performed at activation rather than at point of sale.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Applicant: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicole Milne Vollmer, Lance Lewis, Elizabeth Gwen Webb
  • Patent number: 8275712
    Abstract: Reloadable or non-reloadable prepaid transaction card activation systems are disclosed. More specifically, the system provides a platform for activation of prepaid or stored value transaction cards and capture of customer demographic information, and verification of that information, after the customer has obtained or has been issued a prepaid transaction card. The data capture is performed at activation rather than at point of sale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicole Milne Vollmer, Lance Lewis, Elizabeth Gwen Webb
  • Patent number: 8275713
    Abstract: Reloadable or non-reloadable prepaid transaction card activation systems are disclosed. More specifically, the system provides a platform for activation of prepaid or stored value transaction cards and capture of customer demographic information, and verification of that information, after the customer has obtained or has been issued a prepaid transaction card. The data capture is performed at activation rather than at point of sale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicole Milne Vollmer, Lance Lewis, Elizabeth Gwen Webb
  • Publication number: 20120173420
    Abstract: Reloadable or non-reloadable prepaid transaction card activation systems are disclosed. More specifically, the system provides a platform for activation of prepaid or stored value transaction cards and capture of customer demographic information, and verification of that information, after the customer has obtained or has been issued a prepaid transaction card. The data capture is performed at activation rather than at point of sale.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicole Milne Vollmer, Lance Lewis, Elizabeth Gwen Webb
  • Patent number: 8145600
    Abstract: Techniques for version preview and selection are described, including detecting a plurality of versions of an asset in a compound document, receiving an input indicating selection of a version, wherein the version is one of the plurality of versions, and updating the compound document with the version.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Lance Lewis, Ashish Duggal, Nathan Marroquin
  • Publication number: 20120011064
    Abstract: Reloadable or non-reloadable prepaid transaction card activation systems are disclosed. More specifically, the system provides a platform for activation of prepaid or stored value transaction cards and capture of customer demographic information, and verification of that information, after the customer has obtained or has been issued a prepaid transaction card. The data capture is performed at activation rather than at point of sale.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2011
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicole Milne Vollmer, Lance Lewis, Elizabeth Gwen Webb
  • Patent number: 7979351
    Abstract: The present subject matter relates to reloadable or non-reloadable prepaid transaction card activation systems. More specifically, the system provides a platform for activation of prepaid or stored value transaction cards and capture of customer demographic information, and verification of that information, after the customer has obtained or has been issued a prepaid transaction card. The data capture is performed at activation rather than at point of sale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicole Milne Vollmer, Lance Lewis, Elizabeth Gwen Webb
  • Patent number: 7882082
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing a technique for repairing links in a file. The file can contain one or more links, each link referring to a target file. For one or more of the links, a file identifier such as a file name, file number, or file address is stored. Alternatively, for one or more of the links, target information is stored that identifies an old target and a new target for the link. The links can be repaired based on the stored information. The stored information can be used to identify changes to the links that occurred while the file containing the link was inaccessible to the system, for example, due to the file being locked by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Martin Rehfeld, Lance Lewis, Michele K. Tomac, Kevin A. Hogan
  • Publication number: 20060230050
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing a technique for repairing links in a file. The file can contain one or more links, each link referring to a target file. For one or more of the links, a file identifier such as a file name, file number, or file address is stored. Alternatively, for one or more of the links, target information is stored that identifies an old target and a new target for the link. The links can be repaired based on the stored information. The stored information can be used to identify changes to the links that occurred while the file containing the link was inaccessible to the system, for example, due to the file being locked by a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2006
    Publication date: October 12, 2006
    Inventors: Martin Rehfeld, Lance Lewis, Michele Tomac, Kevin Hogan
  • Patent number: 7072893
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing a technique for repairing links in a file. The file can contain one or more links, each link referring to a target file. For one or more of the links, a file identifier such as a file name, file number, or file address is stored. Alternatively, for one or more of the links, target information is stored that identifies an old target and a new target for the link. The links can be repaired based on the stored information. The stored information can be used to identify changes to the links that occurred while the file containing the link was inaccessible to the system, for example, due to the file being locked by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Martin Rehfeld, Lance Lewis, Michele K. Tomac, Kevin A. Hogan
  • Patent number: 6785866
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for a developer to create and display a “dialog definition”, i.e., a description of the dialog that has the position and size of its constituent elements expressed in relative layout rules. These layout rules include expressions of alignment and/or justification of the elements within a container, rather than expressions of the coordinate positions of the elements. In addition, a set of text strings is provided for each language in a separate language file. The user may identify an operating system and a language in which the dialog will be displayed, and the size of the elements in the identified operating system and language will be determined by the computer. The description is interpreted in the computer to lay out the dialog.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2004
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Lance Lewis, David W. Clark, Thomas Costa, Mark Hamburg, Thomas W. McRae, Randolph A. Strauss
  • Patent number: 5995101
    Abstract: A graphical user interface (GUI) for use in a graphical display on a computer monitor includes a cursor that allows a user to point to an area of interest in the graphical display. The GUI also includes an information element that provides a first level of information in the graphical display when the user first points to the area of interest and then provides a subsequent level of information in the graphical display if the user continues to point to the area of interest or presses a selected keystroke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: David W. Clark, Lance Lewis, Thomas W. McRae, Randolph A. Strauss