Patents by Inventor Martin Jacobs

Martin Jacobs 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: 20140177050
    Abstract: Significantly faster state transitioning time between the optimal optical density for viewing 2D Movies as 3D movies through Continuous Adjustable 3Deeps Filter Spectacles can be achieved by using multiple layers (multi-layer) of electronically controlled variable tint materials to fabricate the right and left lenses of the 3Deeps spectacles. The use of multi-layered lenses may result in as much as a 50% decrease in transition time between states. The invention also relates to Multi-Use Electronically Controlled Continuous Adjustable 3Deeps Filter Spectacles that house within a single spectacle frame several layers of optoelectronic material in which each layer of electronically controlled relates to a different method of viewing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Inventors: Kenneth Martin JACOBS, Ronald Steven KARPF
  • Patent number: 8750382
    Abstract: Optimal control of 3Deeps Action Specs (also called 3Deep Viewing Spectacles in previous patent applications) for viewing motion pictures filmed in 3D with a visual effect of 3D requires calculation of a single motion vector that characterizes the direction and speed of motion for each motion picture frame. This invention discloses the calculation of the characteristic motion vector or motion estimation value from temporal redundancy information that is stored in the compressed video file bit stream. The principles of this invention can be used with any compressed video file that incorporates temporal redundancy for compression, such as MPEG.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Inventors: Kenneth Martin Jacobs, Ronald Steven Karpf
  • Publication number: 20140136388
    Abstract: An electronic surveillance system or method identifies potentially suspect trading activities by determining when day trading accounts are too consistently profitable or too consistently unprofitable (lossy). The electronic surveillance system examines specific futures commodities or other securities over a specified time period (e.g., daily). Accounts that are too consistently profitable or too consistently unprofitable are flagged by the system. In addition, the system may report when a trading account experiences statistically unusually large gains or losses per contract traded and gains or losses or a high percentage of time periods. The day to day profits or losses are displayed to a user in a graphical format that expresses the profit or loss trends intuitively before additional analysis of charts or numbers. The system may also perform the analysis for pairs of accounts where trades opposite to one another of the pair are unusually consistently profitable or unusually consistently lossy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Publication date: May 15, 2014
    Applicant: CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE INC.
    Inventor: Martin A. Jacobs
  • Publication number: 20140118492
    Abstract: Continuous Adjustable Pulfrich Filter Spectacles are provided with lenses with continuously changeable optical densities, so that viewing of 2D movies is optimized for visualization in natural 3D. Method and means are disclosed for the continuous Adjustable Pulfrich Filter Spectacles to perform two independent optimizations to achieve optimized 3Deeps visual effects on 2D movies. First they compute the optical density setting of the lenses for optimal viewing of 2D movies as 3D. Then they continuously render the lenses of the spectacles to these optical densities optimized for characteristics of the electro-optical material from which the lenses of the spectacles are fabricated. The invention works for both 3DTV and 3D Cinema theater viewing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2014
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Inventors: Kenneth Martin JACOBS, Ronald Steven KARPF
  • Patent number: 8657438
    Abstract: Significantly faster state transitioning time between the optimal optical density for viewing 2D Movies as 3D movies through Continuous Adjustable 3Deeps Filter Spectacles can be achieved by using multiple layers (multi-layer) of electronically controlled variable tint materials to fabricate the right and left lenses of the 3Deeps spectacles. The use of multi-layered lenses may result in as much as a 50% decrease in transition time between states. The invention also relates to Multi-Use Electronically Controlled Continuous Adjustable 3Deeps Filter Spectacles that house within a single spectacle frame several layers of optoelectronic material in which each layer of electronically controlled relates to a different method of viewing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Inventors: Kenneth Martin Jacobs, Ronald Steven Karpf
  • Patent number: 8657439
    Abstract: Continuous Adjustable Pulfrich Filter Spectacles are provided with lenses with continuously changeable optical densities, so that viewing of 2D movies is optimized for visualization in natural 3D. Method and means are disclosed for the continuous Adjustable Pulfrich Filter Spectacles to perform two independent optimizations to achieve optimized 3Deeps visual effects on 2D movies. First they compute the optical density setting of the lenses for optimal viewing of 2D movies as 3D. Then they continuously render the lenses of the spectacles to these optical densities optimized for characteristics of the electro-optical material from which the lenses of the spectacles are fabricated. The invention works for both 3DTV and 3D Cinema theater viewing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Inventors: Kenneth Martin Jacobs, Ronald Steven Karpf
  • Patent number: 8650113
    Abstract: An electronic surveillance system or method identifies potentially suspect trading activities by determining when day trading accounts are too consistently profitable or too consistently unprofitable (lossy). The electronic surveillance system examines specific futures commodities or other securities over a specified time period (e.g., daily). Accounts that are too consistently profitable or too consistently unprofitable are flagged by the system. In addition, the system may report when a trading account experiences statistically unusually large gains or losses per contract traded and gains or losses or a high percentage of time periods. The day to day profits or losses are displayed to a user in a graphical format that expresses the profit or loss trends intuitively before additional analysis of charts or numbers. The system may also perform the analysis for pairs of accounts where trades opposite to one another of the pair are unusually consistently profitable or unusually consistently lossy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.
    Inventor: Martin Jacobs
  • Publication number: 20130135577
    Abstract: Significantly faster state transitioning time between the optimal optical density for viewing 2D Movies as 3D movies through Continuous Adjustable 3Deeps Filter Spectacles can be achieved by using multiple layers (multi-layer) of electronically controlled variable tint materials to fabricate the right and left lenses of the 3Deeps spectacles. The use of multi-layered lenses may result in as much as a 50% decrease in transition time between states. The invention also relates to Multi-Use Electronically Controlled Continuous Adjustable 3Deeps Filter Spectacles that house within a single spectacle frame several layers of optoelectronic material in which each layer of electronically controlled relates to a different method of viewing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2013
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Inventors: Kenneth Martin JACOBS, Ronald Steven KARPF
  • Publication number: 20130110696
    Abstract: An electronic surveillance system or method identifies potentially suspect trading activities by determining when day trading accounts are too consistently profitable or too consistently unprofitable (lossy). The electronic surveillance system examines specific futures commodities or other securities over a specified time period (e.g., daily). Accounts that are too consistently profitable or too consistently unprofitable are flagged by the system. In addition, the system may report when a trading account experiences statistically unusually large gains or losses per contract traded and gains or losses or a high percentage of time periods. The day to day profits or losses are displayed to a user in a graphical format that expresses the profit or loss trends intuitively before additional analysis of charts or numbers. The system may also perform the analysis for pairs of accounts where trades opposite to one another of the pair are unusually consistently profitable or unusually consistently lossy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Inventor: Martin Jacobs
  • Publication number: 20130038688
    Abstract: Continuous Adjustable Pulfrich Filter Spectacles are provided with lenses with continuously changeable optical densities, so that viewing of 2D movies is optimized for visualization in natural 3D. Method and means are disclosed for the continuous Adjustable Pulfrich Filter Spectacles to perform two independent optimizations to achieve optimized 3Deeps visual effects on 2D movies. First they compute the optical density setting of the lenses for optimal viewing of 2D movies as 3D. Then they continuously render the lenses of the spectacles to these optical densities optimized for characteristics of the electro-optical material from which the lenses of the spectacles are fabricated. The invention works for both 3DTV and 3D Cinema theater viewing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2012
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Inventors: Kenneth Martin JACOBS, Ronald Steven KARPF
  • Patent number: 8303112
    Abstract: Continuous Adjustable 3Deeps Filter Spectacles are provided with lenses with continuously changeable optical densities, so that viewing of 2D movies is optimized for visualization in natural 3D. Method and means are disclosed for the continuous Adjustable 3Deeps Filter Spectacles to perform two independent optimizations to achieve optimized 3Deep visual effects on 2D movies. First they compute the optical density setting of the lenses for optimal viewing of 2D movies as 3D. Then they continuously render the lenses of the spectacles to these optical densities optimized for characteristics of the electro-optical material from which the lenses of the spectacles are fabricated. The invention works for both 3DTV and 3D Cinema theater viewing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Inventors: Kenneth Martin Jacobs, Ronald Steven Karpf
  • Publication number: 20120209642
    Abstract: Market participants that are ostensibly unrelated but acting in concert are identified using vector algebra. Position data for the market participants is collected using the large trader reporting system or through another method. The position data includes the position for a specific financial derivative for each of the market participants. Information derived from position data is used to populate a vector for each market participant. At least one pair of vectors is analyzed by calculating a parallel score indicative of an angle between the two vectors. The parallel score may be a cosine of the angle. The parallel score may be compared to a threshold parallel score to determine the likelihood that the pair of market participants are acting in concert. The threshold parallel score differs from market to market and may be determined by analyzing the distribution of parallel scores for the specific market.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2011
    Publication date: August 16, 2012
    Applicant: Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.
    Inventor: Martin Jacobs
  • Publication number: 20110249092
    Abstract: Optimal control of 3Deeps Action Specs (also called 3Deep Viewing Spectacles in previous patent applications) for viewing motion pictures filmed in 3D with a visual effect of 3D requires calculation of a single motion vector that characterizes the direction and speed of motion for each motion picture frame. This invention discloses the calculation of the characteristic motion vector or motion estimation value from temporal redundancy information that is stored in the compressed video file bit stream. The principles of this invention can be used with any compressed video file that incorporates temporal redundancy for compression, such as MPEG.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Inventors: Kenneth Martin JACOBS, Ronald Steven KARPF
  • Publication number: 20110228215
    Abstract: Continuous Adjustable 3Deeps Filter Spectacles are provided with lenses with continuously changeable optical densities, so that viewing of 2D movies is optimized for visualization in natural 3D. Method and means are disclosed for the continuous Adjustable 3Deeps Filter Spectacles to perform two independent optimizations to achieve optimized 3Deep visual effects on 2D movies. First they compute the optical density setting of the lenses for optimal viewing of 2D movies as 3D. Then they continuously render the lenses of the spectacles to these optical densities optimized for characteristics of the electro-optical material from which the lenses of the spectacles are fabricated. The invention works for both 3D TV and 3D Cinema theater viewing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2011
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Inventors: Kenneth Martin JACOBS, Ronald Steven KARPF
  • Patent number: 7976159
    Abstract: Continuous Adjustable Pulfrich Filter Spectacles are provided with lenses with continuously changeable optical densities, so that viewing of 2D movies is optimized for visualization in natural 3D. Method and means are disclosed for the continuous Adjustable Pulfrich Filter Spectacles to perform two independent optimizations to achieve optimized 3Deeps visual effects on 2D movies. First they compute the optical density setting of the lenses for optimal viewing of 2D movies as 3D. Then they continuously render the lenses of the spectacles to these optical densities optimized for characteristics of the electro-optical material from which the lenses of the spectacles are fabricated. The invention works for both 3DTV and 3D Cinema theater viewing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Inventors: Kenneth Martin Jacobs, Ronald Steven Karpf
  • Publication number: 20110043753
    Abstract: Significantly faster state transitioning time between the optimal optical density for viewing 2D Movies as 3D movies through Continuous Adjustable 3Deeps Filter Spectacles can be achieved by using multiple layers (multi-layer) of electronically controlled variable tint materials to fabricate the right and left lenses of the 3Deeps spectacles. The use of multi-layered lenses may result in as much as a 50% decrease in transition time between states. The invention also relates to Multi-Use Electronically Controlled Continuous Adjustable 3Deeps Filter Spectacles that house within a single spectacle frame several layers of optoelectronic material in which each layer of electronically controlled relates to a different method of viewing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2010
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Inventors: Kenneth Martin JACOBS, Ronald Steven KARPF
  • Patent number: 7850304
    Abstract: Significantly faster state transitioning time between the optimal optical density for viewing 2D Movies as 3D movies through Continuous Adjustable 3Deeps Filter Spectacles can be achieved by using multiple layers (multi-layer) of electronically controlled variable tint materials to fabricate the right and left lenses of the 3Deeps spectacles. The use of multi-layered lenses may result in as much as a 50% decrease in transition time between states. The invention also relates to Multi-Use Electronically Controlled Continuous Adjustable 3Deeps Filter Spectacles that house within a single spectacle frame several layers of optoelectronic material in which each layer of electronically controlled relates to a different method of viewing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Inventors: Kenneth Martin Jacobs, Ronald Steven Karpf
  • Publication number: 20090322857
    Abstract: Continuous Adjustable Pulfrich Filter Spectacles are provided with lenses with continuously changeable optical densities, so that viewing of 2D movies is optimized for visualization in natural 3D. Method and means are disclosed for the continuous Adjustable Pulfrich Filter Spectacles to perform two independent optimizations to achieve optimized 3Deeps visual effects on 2D movies. First they compute the optical density setting of the lenses for optimal viewing of 2D movies as 3D. Then they continuously render the lenses of the spectacles to these optical densities optimized for characteristics of the electro-optical material from which the lenses of the spectacles are fabricated. The invention works for both 3DTV and 3D Cinema theater viewing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Inventors: Kenneth Martin Jacobs, Ronald Steven Karpf
  • Publication number: 20090322861
    Abstract: Significantly faster state transitioning time between the optimal optical density for viewing 2D Movies as 3D movies through Continuous Adjustable 3Deeps Filter Spectacles can be achieved by using multiple layers (multi-layer) of electronically controlled variable tint materials to fabricate the right and left lenses of the 3Deeps spectacles. The use of multi-layered lenses may result in as much as a 50% decrease in transition time between states. The invention also relates to Multi-Use Electronically Controlled Continuous Adjustable 3Deeps Filter Spectacles that house within a single spectacle frame several layers of optoelectronic material in which each layer of electronically controlled relates to a different method of viewing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2009
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Inventors: Kenneth Martin JACOBS, Ronald Steven KARPF
  • Patent number: 7604348
    Abstract: Continuous Adjustable 3Deeps Filter Spectacles are provided with lenses with continuously changeable optical densities, so that viewing of 2D movies is optimized for visualization in natural 3D. Method and means are disclosed for the continuous Adjustable 3Deeps Filter Spectacles to perform two independent optimizations to achieve optimized 3Deep visual effects on 2D movies. First they compute the optical density setting of the lenses for optimal viewing of 2D movies as 3D. Then they continuously render the lenses of the spectacles to these optical densities optimized for characteristics of the electro-optical material from which the lenses of the spectacles are fabricated. The invention works for both 3DTV and 3D Cinema theater viewing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Inventors: Kenneth Martin Jacobs, Ronald Steven Karpf