Patents by Inventor Michael J. Jones
Michael J. Jones 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: 9021426Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, hardware initialization code and error action information are retrieved from separate storage areas. The hardware initialization code includes code that initializes a device, and also includes placeholders corresponding to actions that are performed when the device fails initialization. Likewise, the error action information describes the actions that are performed when the device fails initialization. The error action information is converted into macros that include lines of code. As such, the error action placeholders are matched to the macros and, in turn, each of the error action placeholders is replaced with the lines of code corresponding to the matched macros.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2012Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Daniel M. Crowell, John Farrugia, Michael J. Jones, David Dean Sanner
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Patent number: 9003364Abstract: An approach is provided in which a request is received from a software module to retrieve a value stored in a pre-defined location. Prior to retrieving the value, an override tank is checked for a corresponding override value. When the override tank includes an override value, the override value in the override tank is provided to the software module. When the override tank fails to include a corresponding override value, an actual value is retrieved from a pre-defined storage location and provided to the software module. In one embodiment, the override value is an override system attribute value. In another embodiment, the override value is an override function return value.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2013Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: John Farrugia, Michael J. Jones, David Dean Sanner
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Patent number: 8997044Abstract: An approach is provided in which a request is received from a software module to retrieve a value stored in a pre-defined location. Prior to retrieving the value, an override tank is checked for a corresponding override value. When the override tank includes an override value, the override value in the override tank is provided to the software module. When the override tank fails to include a corresponding override value, an actual value is retrieved from a pre-defined storage location and provided to the software module. In one embodiment, the override value is an override system attribute value. In another embodiment, the override value is an override function return value.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2012Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: John Farrugia, Michael J. Jones, David Dean Sanner
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Patent number: 8929592Abstract: A climate control unit is controlled by constructing background and foreground models of an environment from images acquired of the environment by a camera. The background model represents the environment when unoccupied, and there is one foreground model for each person in the environment. A 2D location of each person in the environment is determined using the background and foreground models. A 3D location of each person is determined using the 2D locations and inferences made from the images. The controlling of the climate control unit is according to the 3D locations.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2012Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Tim K. Marks, Michael J. Jones
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Publication number: 20150006972Abstract: A method detects anomalies in time series data by comparing universal features extracted from testing time series data with the universal features acquired from training time series data to determine a score. The universal features characterize trajectory components of the time series data and stochastic components of the time series data. Then, an anomaly is detected if the anomaly score is above a threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2013Publication date: January 1, 2015Inventor: Michael J Jones
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Publication number: 20140254863Abstract: In a sequence of images of a scene acquired by a stationary camera, objects are detected and tracked by determining a first set of candidate foreground regions according to a background model. A second set of candidate foreground regions is determined. according to a set of foreground models. Then, candidate foreground regions in the first set and the second set are validated to produce a final set of foreground regions in the image that include the objects.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2013Publication date: September 11, 2014Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC RESEARCH LABORATORIES, INC.Inventors: Tim K. Marks, Michael J. Jones, Rohith MV
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Publication number: 20140157229Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, hardware initialization code and error action information are retrieved from separate storage areas. The hardware initialization code includes code that initializes a device, and also includes placeholders corresponding to actions that are performed when the device fails initialization. Likewise, the error action information describes the actions that are performed when the device fails initialization. The error action information is converted into macros that include lines of code. As such, the error action placeholders are matched to the macros and, in turn, each of the error action placeholders is replaced with the lines of code corresponding to the matched macros.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2012Publication date: June 5, 2014Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Daniel M. Crowell, John Farrugia, Michael J. Jones, David Dean Sanner
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Publication number: 20140157230Abstract: According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, hardware initialization code and error action information are retrieved from separate storage areas. The hardware initialization code includes code that initializes a device, and also includes placeholders corresponding to actions that are performed when the device fails initialization. Likewise, the error action information describes the actions that are performed when the device fails initialization. The error action information is converted into macros that include lines of code. As such, the error action placeholders are matched to the macros and, in turn, each of the error action placeholders is replaced with the lines of code corresponding to the matched macros.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2013Publication date: June 5, 2014Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Daniel M. Crowell, John Farrugia, Michael J. Jones, David Dean Sanner
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Publication number: 20140157237Abstract: An approach is provided in which a request is received from a software module to retrieve a value stored in a pre-defined location. Prior to retrieving the value, an override tank is checked for a corresponding override value. When the override tank includes an override value, the override value in the override tank is provided to the software module. When the override tank fails to include a corresponding override value, an actual value is retrieved from a pre-defined storage location and provided to the software module. In one embodiment, the override value is an override system attribute value. In another embodiment, the override value is an override function return value.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2013Publication date: June 5, 2014Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: John Farrugia, Michael J. Jones, David Dean Sanner
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Publication number: 20140157234Abstract: An approach is provided in which a request is received from a software module to retrieve a value stored in a pre-defined location. Prior to retrieving the value, an override tank is checked for a corresponding override value. When the override tank includes an override value, the override value in the override tank is provided to the software module. When the override tank fails to include a corresponding override value, an actual value is retrieved from a pre-defined storage location and provided to the software module. In one embodiment, the override value is an override system attribute value. In another embodiment, the override value is an override function return value.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2012Publication date: June 5, 2014Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: John Farrugia, Michael J. Jones, David Dean Sanner
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Publication number: 20130243240Abstract: A climate control unit is controlled by constructing background and foreground models of an environment from images acquired of the environment by a camera. The background model represents the environment when unoccupied, and there is one foreground model for each person in the environment. A 2D location of each person in the environment is determined using the background and foreground models. A 3D location of each person is determined using the 2D locations and inferences made from the images. The controlling of the climate control unit is according to the 3D locations.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2012Publication date: September 19, 2013Inventors: Tim K. Marks, Michael J. Jones
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Patent number: 8406470Abstract: A method for detecting an object in a depth image includes determining a detection window covering a region in the depth image, wherein a location of the detection window is based on a location of a candidate pixel in the depth image, wherein a size of the detection window is based on a depth value of the candidate pixel and a size of the object. A foreground region in the detection window is segmented based on the depth value of the candidate pixel and the size of the object. A feature vector is determined based on depth values of the pixels in the foreground region and the feature vector is classified to detect the object.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2011Date of Patent: March 26, 2013Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Michael J. Jones, Oncel Tuzel, Weiguang Si
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Publication number: 20130004028Abstract: A Gabor filter is approximated as a block-Gabor filter. The Gabor filter is represented by a matrix of numbers in which each number is a sample derived from a continuous Gabor function. The block-Gabor filter is partitioned into a set of blocks. Identical filter values are assigned to all the pixels in any particular block based on the Gabor filter. Then, a feature can be extracted from an image by filtering the image with a set of the block-Gabor filters to obtain a corresponding set of filtered images. Each filtered image is partitioned into regions of pixels. For each pixel, an N-bit signature is determined. Histograms of the N-bit signatures of the pixels in each region are combined to form the feature. The features of multiple images can be used for face recognition.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2011Publication date: January 3, 2013Inventors: Michael J. Jones, Tim K. Marks
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Publication number: 20120269384Abstract: A method for detecting an object in a depth image includes determining a detection window covering a region in the depth image, wherein a location of the detection window is based on a location of a candidate pixel in the depth image, wherein a size of the detection window is based on a depth value of the candidate pixel and a size of the object. A foreground region in the detection window is segmented based on the depth value of the candidate pixel and the size of the object. A feature vector is determined based on depth values of the pixels in the foreground region and the feature vector is classified to detect the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2011Publication date: October 25, 2012Inventors: Michael J. Jones, Oncel Tuzel, Weiguang Si
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Patent number: 8270820Abstract: Multimedia content is stored onto a relatively permanent, portable storage medium in accordance with at least two standards that allow the content to be recovered on a playback device with the highest possible resolution and fidelity. Linking between the various types of content stored according to the at least two standards allows the presentation of content at the highest quality possible.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2001Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Michael J Jones, Thomas McFarland, Derek Roller, Kathy Shelby, Brian E Cripe, Pieter J. van Zee, Gabe Beged-Dov
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Patent number: 8194072Abstract: An image of an object from a known object class is synthesized by first obtaining reflectance fields for various training objects from the object class. A reflectance field model is defined for the object class using a combination of the reflectance fields of the training objects. The parameters of the reflectance field model are optimized to estimate a particular reflectance field of a particular object from the object class given one or more input images of the particular object. The particular reflectance field is fitted to the particular object, and then the new image of the particular object is synthesized by changing the illumination parameters of the particular fitted reflectance field model after the fitting.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2010Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Michael J. Jones, Tim Marks, Ritwik Kumar
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Patent number: 8107360Abstract: Disclosed is a computer implemented method and apparatus for establishing a redundant channel from an application to a peer data processing system. The interrupt-driven hot standby program receives, through the operation of a data processing system, a communication channel status corresponding to an application. The application has a first channel using local access across a first physical conduit to a first switch. In addition the communication channel status is, in part, an interrupt. The interrupt-driven hot standby program determines whether the redundant channel is present. The redundant channel is configured to use a second physical conduit distinct from the first physical conduit for traffic of the application. Responding to a determination that the redundant channel is present, the interrupt-driven hot standby program determines whether the redundant channel is configured to use the second physical conduit as local access to a redundant switch, wherein the redundant switch is not the first switch.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2009Date of Patent: January 31, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Atit D. Patel, Michael J. Jones, Ajay K. Mahajan, Iwan P. Sofjan
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Publication number: 20110234590Abstract: An image of an object from a known object class is synthesized by first obtaining reflectance fields for various training objects from the object class. A reflectance field model is defined for the object class using a combination of the reflectance fields of the training objects. The parameters of the reflectance field model are optimized to estimate a particular reflectance field of a particular object from the object class given one or more input images of the particular object. The particular reflectance field is fitted to the particular object, and then the new image of the particular object is synthesized by changing the illumination parameters of the particular fitted reflectance field model after the fitting.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2010Publication date: September 29, 2011Inventors: Michael J. Jones, Tim K. Marks, Ritwik Kumar
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Publication number: 20100241894Abstract: Disclosed is a computer implemented method and apparatus for establishing a redundant channel from an application to a peer data processing system. The interrupt-driven hot standby program receives, through the operation of a data processing system, a communication channel status corresponding to an application. The application has a first channel using local access across a first physical conduit to a first switch. In addition the communication channel status is, in part, an interrupt. The interrupt-driven hot standby program determines whether the redundant channel is present. The redundant channel is configured to use a second physical conduit distinct from the first physical conduit for traffic of the application. Responding to a determination that the redundant channel is present, the interrupt-driven hot standby program determines whether the redundant channel is configured to use the second physical conduit as local access to a redundant switch, wherein the redundant switch is not the first switch.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2009Publication date: September 23, 2010Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Atit D. Patel, Michael J. Jones, Ajay K. Mahajan, Iwan P. Sofjan
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Patent number: D715032Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2014Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Inventor: Michael J. Jones