Patents by Inventor Mark C. Rivers

Mark C. Rivers 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: 20250110500
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for systems and methods to provide graphical user interfaces for assisted and/or autonomous navigation for mobile structures. A navigation assist system includes a user interface with a display for a mobile structure and a logic device configured to render a docking user interface on the display. The logic device determines a direction and magnitude of a navigational bias associated with navigation of the mobile structure and determines a spatially biased safety perimeter and hazard monitoring area within a monitoring perimeter of a perimeter ranging system mounted to the mobile structure, based on the direction and magnitude of the navigational bias. The docking user interface includes a maneuvering guide with a virtual bumper perimeter intrusion indicator configured to indicate a relative position and/or proximity of a navigation hazard within the spatially biased hazard monitoring area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Mark C. Rivers, Stuart Newcombe
  • Patent number: 12117832
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for systems and methods to provide graphical user interfaces for assisted and/or autonomous navigation for mobile structures. A navigation assist system includes a user interface with a display for a mobile structure and a logic device configured to render a docking user interface on the display. The logic device determines a direction and magnitude of a navigational bias associated with navigation of the mobile structure and determines a spatially biased safety perimeter and hazard monitoring area within a monitoring perimeter of a perimeter ranging system mounted to the mobile structure, based on the direction and magnitude of the navigational bias. The docking user interface includes a maneuvering guide with a virtual bumper perimeter intrusion indicator configured to indicate a relative position and/or proximity of a navigation hazard within the spatially biased hazard monitoring area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: FLIR Belgium BVBA
    Inventors: Mark C. Rivers, Stuart Newcombe
  • Publication number: 20240271943
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for systems and methods to provide assisted navigation based on surrounding threats. In one example, an assisted navigation system receives data from a plurality of sensors associated with a mobile structure. The assisted navigation system determines a plurality of navigational hazards disposed within a monitored area associated with the mobile structure. The assisted navigation system processes the data and/or the navigational hazards to determine an operational context of the mobile structure. The assisted navigation system generates a context-dependent navigational chart for the mobile structure, wherein the navigational chart comprises greater or fewer of the navigational hazards in response to the determined operational context. The assisted navigation system updates the navigational chart in response to changes in the data. Additional systems and methods are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Mark Johnson, Mark C. Rivers, Weronika Nowicka
  • Publication number: 20230215164
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for systems and methods to provide remote sensing imagery for mobile structures. A remote sensing imagery system includes a radar assembly mounted to a mobile structure and a coupled logic device. The radar assembly includes an imaging system coupled to or within the radar assembly and configured to provide image data associated with the radar assembly. The logic device is configured to receive radar returns corresponding to a detected target from the radar assembly and image data corresponding to the radar returns from the imaging system, and then generate radar image data based on the radar returns and the image data. Subsequent user input and/or the sensor data may be used to adjust a steering actuator, a propulsion system thrust, and/or other operational systems of the mobile structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Paul Stokes, Richard James Jales, Adam Murphy, Mark Johnson, Mark C. Rivers, Peter A.A. Stewart, Paul S. Chittendon, Thomas Bonfield
  • Publication number: 20230103359
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for systems and methods to provide graphical user interfaces for assisted and/or autonomous navigation for mobile structures. A navigation assist system includes a user interface with a display for a mobile structure and a logic device configured to render a docking user interface on the display. The logic device determines a direction and magnitude of a navigational bias associated with navigation of the mobile structure and determines a spatially biased safety perimeter and hazard monitoring area within a monitoring perimeter of a perimeter ranging system mounted to the mobile structure, based on the direction and magnitude of the navigational bias. The docking user interface includes a maneuvering guide with a virtual bumper perimeter intrusion indicator configured to indicate a relative position and/or proximity of a navigation hazard within the spatially biased hazard monitoring area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Mark C. Rivers, Stuart Newcombe
  • Publication number: 20220043112
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for systems and methods to provide wildlife feeding flock detection using a remote sensing imagery system. A remote sensing imagery system includes a radar assembly mounted to a mobile structure and a coupled logic device. The logic device is configured to receive radar returns corresponding to a detected target, determine a radial velocity spectrum associated with the detected target based, at least in part, on the received radar returns, and determine a probability the detected target includes a feeding flock based, at least in part, on the determined radial velocity spectrum. The logic device may generate radar image data based on the received radar returns, the determined radial velocity spectrum, and/or the probability the detected target includes the feeding flock. Subsequent user input and/or the sensor data may be used to adjust a steering actuator, a propulsion system thrust, and/or other operational systems of the mobile structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Paul Stokes, Richard James Jales, Nicholas Lester St. Hill, Philippe Aston, Adam Murphy, Mark Johnson, Mark C. Rivers, Peter A.A. Stewart, Paul S. Chittenden, Thomas Bonfield