Patents by Inventor Liana M. Kiff

Liana M. Kiff 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: 11263827
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for annotating three-dimensional displays are described herein. One method includes displaying, by a computing device, a particular view of a 3D model of a facility, the 3D model including a plurality of objects, each object associated with a respective annotation, determining a context associated with the 3D model, and displaying a subset of the plurality of annotations associated with a respective subset of the plurality of objects based on the context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Henry Chen, Tom Plocher, Jian Geng Du, Liana M. Kiff
  • Publication number: 20200364946
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for annotating three-dimensional displays are described herein. One method includes displaying, by a computing device, a particular view of a 3D model of a facility, the 3D model including a plurality of objects, each object associated with a respective annotation, determining a context associated with the 3D model, and displaying a subset of the plurality of annotations associated with a respective subset of the plurality of objects based on the context.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Henry Chen, Tom Plocher, Jian Geng Du, Liana M. Kiff
  • Patent number: 10795348
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for providing a standard operating procedure associated with a monitoring system of facility are described herein. One method includes determining a plurality of parameters associated with a facility having a monitoring system, accessing a library of SOP templates to determine a particular SOP template having a correlation with the plurality of parameters, allowing a user to create an SOP by customizing the particular SOP template, and associating the created SOP with the plurality of parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Vit Libal, Michelle Raymond, Liana M. Kiff, Henry Chen
  • Patent number: 10769863
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for annotating three-dimensional displays are described herein. One method includes displaying, by a computing device, a particular view of a 3D model of a facility, the 3D model including a plurality of objects, each object associated with a respective annotation, determining a context associated with the 3D model, and displaying a subset of the plurality of annotations associated with a respective subset of the plurality of objects based on the context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Henry Chen, Tom Plocher, Jian Geng Du, Liana M. Kiff
  • Patent number: 10733333
    Abstract: Devices, methods, systems, and computer-readable media for building data consolidation are described herein. One or more embodiments include a method for building data consolidation, comprising: receiving a plurality of representative drawings that comprise a portion of a building, determining a boundary and a location of each of the plurality of representative drawings, wherein the boundary and the location correspond to the building, and stitching the plurality of representative drawings into a combined representative drawing of the building based on the boundary and the location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Henry Chen, Jian Geng Du, Yan Xia, Tom Plocher, Liana M. Kiff, Michelle Raymond
  • Patent number: 10417352
    Abstract: Devices, methods, and systems for generating a three dimensional building management system are described herein. One method includes inputting, into a three dimensional graphics rendering engine, building information modeling data associated with a building, inputting, into the three dimensional graphics rendering engine, real time building management system data associated with the building, and generating, by the three dimensional graphics rendering engine, a three dimensional building management system for the building based on the building information modeling data and the real time building management system data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Cockburn, Richard Denning, Shailesh Rasane, Henry Chen, Tom Plocher, Conrad B. Beaulieu, Liana M. Kiff
  • Patent number: 10262460
    Abstract: Three dimensional (3D) operational user interface generation systems and methods are described herein. For example, one or more embodiments include calculating a number of locations for a virtual camera, placing the virtual camera at each of the number of locations, generating a 3D image at each of the number of locations, implementing object information for each pixel of the 3D image, and generating a 3D user interface utilizing the 3D image at each of the number of locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Henry Chen, Jian Geng Du, Yan Xia, Liana M. Kiff
  • Publication number: 20180357835
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for annotating three-dimensional displays are described herein. One method includes displaying, by a computing device, a particular view of a 3D model of a facility, the 3D model including a plurality of objects, each object associated with a respective annotation, determining a context associated with the 3D model, and displaying a subset of the plurality of annotations associated with a respective subset of the plurality of objects based on the context.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Henry Chen, Tom Plocher, Jian Geng Du, Liana M. Kiff
  • Patent number: 10146891
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable and executable instructions are provided for extracting relationship data from building information model (BIM) data. Extracting relationship data from BIM data can include generating a three dimensional geometric model of a number of objects within the BIM data. Extracting relationship data from BIM data can also include determining a number of spatial relationships between a number of objects, wherein the spatial relationships are determined from the three dimensional geometric model. Furthermore, extracting relationship data from BIM data can include exporting the spatial relationships based on a number of criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Henry Chen, Conrad B. Beaulieu, Liana M. Kiff, Adam Gibson, Ben Coleman
  • Patent number: 10049504
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for annotating three-dimensional displays are described herein. One method includes displaying, by a computing device, a particular view of a 3D model of a facility, the 3D model including a plurality of objects, each object associated with a respective annotation, determining a context associated with the 3D model, and displaying a subset of the plurality of annotations associated with a respective subset of the plurality of objects based on the context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Henry Chen, Tom Plocher, Jian Geng Du, Liana M. Kiff
  • Patent number: 9984179
    Abstract: Devices, methods, and systems for providing building information modeling data are described herein. One system includes a database having complete building information modeling data associated with a building, and a computing device coupled to the database. The computing device is configured to receive, from a user of the computing device, a request for a particular scope of building information modeling data associated with the building, retrieve, from the database, the building information modeling data in the database that corresponds to the particular scope of building information modeling data requested by the user, and provide, to the user, the building information modeling data that corresponds to the particular scope of building information modeling data requested by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Henry Enyi Chen, Liana M. Kiff, Michelle Raymond, Keith Johnson, Tom Plocher, Wendy Foslien
  • Publication number: 20170352196
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for annotating three-dimensional displays are described herein. One method includes displaying, by a computing device, a particular view of a 3D model of a facility, the 3D model including a plurality of objects, each object associated with a respective annotation, determining a context associated with the 3D model, and displaying a subset of the plurality of annotations associated with a respective subset of the plurality of objects based on the context.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: Henry Chen, Tom Plocher, Jian Geng Du, Liana M. Kiff
  • Publication number: 20170329876
    Abstract: Devices, methods, and systems for generating a three dimensional building management system are described herein. One method includes inputting, into a three dimensional graphics rendering engine, building information modeling data associated with a building, inputting, into the three dimensional graphics rendering engine, real time building management system data associated with the building, and generating, by the three dimensional graphics rendering engine, a three dimensional building management system for the building based on the building information modeling data and the real time building management system data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: Mark Cockburn, Richard Denning, Shailesh Rasane, Henry Chen, Tom Plocher, Conrad B. Beaulieu, Liana M. Kiff
  • Patent number: 9811249
    Abstract: Devices, methods, and systems for generating an operational user interface for a building management system are described herein. One method includes generating a widget using geometrical information associated with a building information modeling object and relationship information associated with the building information modeling object, assigning a state variable to the widget by analyzing properties of the building information modeling object or an ontology definition of the building information modeling object, associating the state variable with a point from the building operation system by mapping the point to the state variable, and changing the state variable based on input received from a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Henry Chen, Jian Geng Du, Hao Bai, Tom Plocher, Liana M. Kiff, Conrad B. Beaulieu
  • Patent number: 9727667
    Abstract: Devices, methods, and systems for generating a three dimensional building management system are described herein. One method includes inputting, into a three dimensional graphics rendering engine, building information modeling data associated with a building, inputting, into the three dimensional graphics rendering engine, real time building management system data associated with the building, and generating, by the three dimensional graphics rendering engine, a three dimensional building management system for the building based on the building information modeling data and the real time building management system data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Cockburn, Richard Denning, Shailesh Rasane, Henry Chen, Tom Plocher, Conrad B. Beaulieu, Liana M. Kiff
  • Publication number: 20170147717
    Abstract: Devices, methods, systems, and computer-readable media for building data consolidation are described herein. One or more embodiments include a method for building data consolidation, comprising: receiving a plurality of representative drawings that comprise a portion of a building, determining a boundary and a location of each of the plurality of representative drawings, wherein the boundary and the location correspond to the building, and stitching the plurality of representative drawings into a combined representative drawing of the building based on the boundary and the location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2017
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Henry Chen, Jian Geng Du, Yan Xia, Tom Plocher, Liana M. Kiff, Michelle Raymond
  • Publication number: 20170146986
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for providing a standard operating procedure associated with a monitoring system of facility are described herein. One method includes determining a plurality of parameters associated with a facility having a monitoring system, accessing a library of SOP templates to determine a particular SOP template having a correlation with the plurality of parameters, allowing a user to create an SOP by customizing the particular SOP template, and associating the created SOP with the plurality of parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Vit Libal, Michelle Raymond, Liana M. Kiff, Henry Chen
  • Publication number: 20160275216
    Abstract: Devices, methods, and systems for providing building information modeling data are described herein. One system includes a database having complete building information modeling data associated with a building, and a computing device coupled to the database. The computing device is configured to receive, from a user of the computing device, a request for a particular scope of building information modeling data associated with the building, retrieve, from the database, the building information modeling data in the database that corresponds to the particular scope of building information modeling data requested by the user, and provide, to the user, the building information modeling data that corresponds to the particular scope of building information modeling data requested by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Henry Enyi CHEN, Liana M. Kiff, Michelle Raymond, Keith Johnson, Tom Plocher, Wendy Foslien
  • Patent number: 9367737
    Abstract: Methods, machine-readable media, and devices for floor plan space detection are described herein. For example, one or more embodiments include receiving an image of a floor plan, enhancing the image of the floor plan through processing, detecting a location of a door associated with a space in the image of the floor plan through a histogram of gradient of pattern feature, setting a seed in the space based on the location of the door associated with the space, spreading the seed in the space until the seed reaches a boundary of the space, and associating the seed that has been spread with the space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Henry Chen, Jian Geng Du, Yan Xia, Xiaoli Wang, Liana M. Kiff, Tom Plocher
  • Publication number: 20150131871
    Abstract: Methods, machine-readable media, and devices for floor plan space detection are described herein. For example, one or more embodiments include receiving an image of a floor plan, enhancing the image of the floor plan through processing, detecting a location of a door associated with a space in the image of the floor plan through a histogram of gradient of pattern feature, setting a seed in the space based on the location of the door associated with the space, spreading the seed in the space until the seed reaches a boundary of the space, and associating the seed that has been spread with the space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2012
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Henry Chen, Geng Du, Yan Xia, Xiaoli Wang, Liana M. Kiff, Tom Plocher