Patents by Inventor Michael Brookmire
Michael Brookmire 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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Patent number: 11962884Abstract: In one aspect of the present disclosure, a digital image capturing device (DICD) is described that includes a first integrated sensor-lens assembly (ISLA) defining a first optical axis and facing in a first direction; a second ISLA defining a second optical axis offset from the first optical axis and facing in a second direction generally opposite the first direction (i.e., such that the second ISLA is rotated approximately 180 from the first ISLA); and a bridge member that is positioned between the first and second ISLAs to fixedly secure together the first and second ISLAs. The bridge member is configured as a discrete structure (i.e., as being separate from both the first ISLA and the second ISLA), and defines a longitudinal axis that is generally parallel in relation to the first and second optical axes.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: GoPro, Inc.Inventors: Michael Brookmire, Ingrid A. Cotoros, Jonathan Stern
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Publication number: 20230326943Abstract: An image capture device includes a first housing, a second housing, a first integrated sensor-lens assembly (ISLA), and a second ISLA. The second housing is coupled to the first housing to form an internal compartment. The first ISLA includes a first image sensor coupled to a first lens in fixed alignment. The second ISLA includes a second image sensor coupled to a second lens in fixed alignment. The first ISLA is positively statically connected to the first housing, and the second ISLA is coupled to the first housing indirectly via the first ISLA.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventors: Nicholas Vitale, Michael Brookmire, Matthew David Thomas, Jesse Patterson, John George Muhlenkamp, IV, Heman Au
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Patent number: 11721712Abstract: An image capture device includes a first housing, a second housing, a first integrated sensor-lens assembly (ISLA), and a second ISLA. The second housing is coupled to the first housing to form an internal compartment. The first ISLA includes a first image sensor coupled to a first lens in fixed alignment. The second ISLA includes a second image sensor coupled to a second lens in fixed alignment. The first ISLA is positively statically connected to the first housing, and the second ISLA is coupled to the first housing indirectly via the first ISLA.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2020Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: GoPro, Inc.Inventors: Nicholas Vitale, Michael Brookmire, Matthew David Thomas, Jesse Patterson, John George Muhlenkamp, IV, Heman Au
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Patent number: 11493831Abstract: Breathable membranes for lens assemblies are described. For example, a system may include a lens barrel having an inner channel extending from a first end of the lens barrel to a second end of the lens barrel. The lens barrel can include one or more inner lenses positioned within the inner channel. The lens barrel has a vent hole in a side of the lens barrel that extends from the inner channel to an exterior surface of the lens barrel. The system includes a membrane attached to the lens barrel and positioned to cover the vent hole. The membrane has pores large enough to permit nitrogen gas to flow through the membrane and the vent hole.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: GoPro, Inc.Inventors: Jonathan Stern, Matthew Feddersen, Michael Brookmire, Joseph Tucker
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Publication number: 20220124230Abstract: In one aspect of the present disclosure, a digital image capturing device (DICD) is described that includes a first integrated sensor-lens assembly (ISLA) defining a first optical axis and facing in a first direction; a second ISLA defining a second optical axis offset from the first optical axis and facing in a second direction generally opposite the first direction (i.e., such that the second ISLA is rotated approximately 180 from the first ISLA); and a bridge member that is positioned between the first and second ISLAs to fixedly secure together the first and second ISLAs. The bridge member is configured as a discrete structure (i.e., as being separate from both the first ISLA and the second ISLA), and defines a longitudinal axis that is generally parallel in relation to the first and second optical axes.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2020Publication date: April 21, 2022Inventors: Michael Brookmire, Ingrid A. Cotoros, Jonathan Stern
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Publication number: 20210111210Abstract: An image capture device includes a first housing, a second housing, a first integrated sensor-lens assembly (ISLA), and a second ISLA. The second housing is coupled to the first housing to form an internal compartment. The first ISLA includes a first image sensor coupled to a first lens in fixed alignment. The second ISLA includes a second image sensor coupled to a second lens in fixed alignment. The first ISLA is positively statically connected to the first housing, and the second ISLA is coupled to the first housing indirectly via the first ISLA.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Inventors: Nicholas Vitale, Michael Brookmire, Matthew David Thomas, Jordan Zook Todd, John George Muhlenkamp, IV, Heman Au
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Publication number: 20210080809Abstract: Breathable membranes for lens assemblies are described. For example, a system may include a lens barrel having an inner channel extending from a first end of the lens barrel to a second end of the lens barrel. The lens barrel can include one or more inner lenses positioned within the inner channel. The lens barrel has a vent hole in a side of the lens barrel that extends from the inner channel to an exterior surface of the lens barrel. The system includes a membrane attached to the lens barrel and positioned to cover the vent hole. The membrane has pores large enough to permit nitrogen gas to flow through the membrane and the vent hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2020Publication date: March 18, 2021Inventors: Jonathan Stern, Matthew Feddersen, Michael Brookmire, Joseph Tucker
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Publication number: 20100214338Abstract: A method of compensating for thermally induced misalignments in a printing system includes measuring two or more temperatures of a structure within the printing system, mathematically differencing the two or more temperatures to produce a differenced value, inputting the differenced value into a correlation equation, the correlation equation predicting a misalignment of a target printing system component, and compensating for the predicted misalignment of the target printing system component.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2009Publication date: August 26, 2010Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Michael Brookmire, Hsue-Yang Liu, Weiyun Sun
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Patent number: 7669963Abstract: A multi-carriage printing device has a first member, a first bar mounted on the first member, and a first printer carriage mounted on the first bar. The device further has a second bar mounted on the first member, a second printer carriage mounted on the second bar, and a first temperature sensor positioned to sense a first temperature of the member.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2006Date of Patent: March 2, 2010Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Michael Brookmire, Weiyun Sun, Hsue-Yang Liu, Anthony Carcia
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Patent number: 7434911Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the invention include systems and methods of reducing visible print defects in drum printers having multi-die printheads oriented substantially perpendicular to the print media path. The exemplary embodiments include printing very small amounts of additional ink via empirically determined printing masks in addition to the normal image content, such that the print defects become less visible. Further exemplary embodiments include printing the additional ink during times typically utilized for print drying.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2005Date of Patent: October 14, 2008Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Michael Brookmire, Weiyun Sun, Hsue-Yang Liu
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Publication number: 20080024551Abstract: A multi-carriage printing device has a first member, a first bar mounted on the first member, and a first printer carriage mounted on the first bar. The device further has a second bar mounted on the first member, a second printer carriage mounted on the second bar, and a first temperature sensor positioned to sense a first temperature of the member.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2006Publication date: January 31, 2008Inventors: Michael Brookmire, Weiyun Sun, Hsue-Yang Liu, Anthony Carcia
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Patent number: 7267422Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided. Nozzles of a fluid-ejection device of an imaging device adapted to eject a clear fixing liquid are purged by ejecting a number of drops of the clear fixing liquid through the nozzles onto a non-imaging portion of a media sheet.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2004Date of Patent: September 11, 2007Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Michael Brookmire, Russell P. Yearout
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Publication number: 20060164492Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the invention include systems and methods of reducing visible print defects in drum printers having multi-die printheads oriented substantially perpendicular to the print media path. The exemplary embodiments include printing very small amounts of additional ink via empirically determined printing masks in addition to the normal image content, such that the print defects become less visible. Further exemplary embodiments include printing the additional ink during times typically utilized for print drying.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2005Publication date: July 27, 2006Inventors: Michael Brookmire, Weiyun Sun, Hsue-Yang Liu
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Publication number: 20050270327Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided. Nozzles of a fluid-ejection device of an imaging device adapted to eject a clear fixing liquid are purged by ejecting a number of drops of the clear fixing liquid through the nozzles onto a non-imaging portion of a media sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2004Publication date: December 8, 2005Inventors: Michael Brookmire, Russell Yearout
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Publication number: 20040113975Abstract: A direct marking, bidirectional, swathing printer eliminates hue shift between forward and reverse directions swath of the printhead by including at least two sets of printheads, with each set including a printhead for each of the set of colors deposited by the printhead. The color order of the different printheads of each set are different between the two sets, and preferably in reverse order, so that as the printheads move in both the forward and reverse directions alternating rows of dots are formed in reverse color order, so that hue shift due to the order in which colors are deposited occurs on a dot to dot basis, rather than on a swath to swath basis.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2003Publication date: June 17, 2004Applicant: Xerox CorporationInventors: Michael A. Brookmire, Richard M. Vogel, Chris Abbe
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Patent number: 4899214Abstract: A color scanner is provided having a commonly mounted and driven original scanning table and LED dot generator exposure source. Scanning is accomplished by illuminating a strip of the original artwork with high intensity fluorescent light and detecting the illuminated strip through a linear scanning aperture, lens and color filter wheel using a charge coupled device ("CCD") linear detector. Original artwork is held by vacuum against the flat original artwork receiving surface and photosensitive material is automatically loaded and held by vacuum onto the surface of a rotating exposure drum mounted parallel to the direction of travel of the LED dot generator exposure source, and the exposed halftone film is automatically removed from the drum surface and loaded into a transfer cartridge. Advantageously, multiple linear scans may be averaged in order to reduce color fringe effects.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 1988Date of Patent: February 6, 1990Assignee: Itek Graphic Corp.Inventors: Daniel H. Robbins, John S. Wirtz, Juergen Lein, Michael A. Brookmire
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Patent number: 4814832Abstract: An automatic vacuum feed and hold down system is provided having a transport belt with vacuum grippers, a peripheral vacuum channel surrounding the platen, and a lead edge blow apparatus. In the preferred embodiment the transport belt consists of polyester fabric selectively coated with plastisol sealant to define a window area similarly shaped but smaller than the platen and suction grippers within the window area. In the preferred mode of operation a lifting apparatus raises the belt away from the exposed photosensitive sheet on the platen and the natural curl of the sheet, together with the lead edge blow, cause the sheet to release from the platen. The lifting apparatus then lowers the belt and suction is reapplied to the grippers, whereafter the belt and sheet are raised and advanced to deliver the exposed photosensitive sheet for processing.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 1988Date of Patent: March 21, 1989Assignee: Itek Graphix Corp.Inventors: Juergen Lein, Michael Brookmire, Robert Powers, Joel Hotelling
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Patent number: 4786006Abstract: A transfer cartridge for photosensitive material includes an enclosure with an entry slot in one of its walls, and end caps to seal the opposite ends of the enclosure. A pair of rollers is disposed in aligned, parallel relationship within the enclosure, and a flexible, opaque belt extends between the rollers, preferably in figure 8-fashion. One roller is rigidly mounted upon an elongated shaft, while the second roller is elastically mounted upon a second elongated shaft through the use of a torsion spring. Drive gears on the exterior of the cartridge impart rotational movement to the rollers and the nip between the rollers grasps the leading edge of a length of photosensitive material and introduces same into the belt. The continued rotation of the rollers in opposite directions causes the belt to wrap the photosensitive material several times about one roller in a sandwich-like fashion.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 1986Date of Patent: November 22, 1988Assignee: Itek Graphix Corp.Inventors: Daniel P. White, Michael A. Brookmire