Patents by Inventor Michael T. Stevens
Michael T. Stevens 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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Publication number: 20240094233Abstract: The present invention relates to methods, devices and systems for associating consumable data with an assay consumable used in a biological assay. Provided are assay systems and associated consumables, wherein the assay system adjusts one or more steps of an assay protocol based on consumable data specific for that consumable. Various types of consumable data are described, as well as methods of using such data in the conduct of an assay by an assay system. The present invention also relates to consumables (e.g., kits and reagent containers), software, data deployable bundles, computer-readable media, loading carts, instruments, systems, and methods, for performing automated biological assays.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Jacob N. WOHLSTADTER, Manish KOCHAR, Peter J. BOSCO, Ian D. CHAMBERLIN, Bandele JEFFREY-COKER, Eric M. JONES, Gary I. KRIVOY, Don E. KRUEGER, Aaron H. LEIMKUEHLER, Pei-Ming WU, Kim-Xuan NGUYEN, Pankaj OBEROI, Louis W. PANG, Jennifer PARKER, Victor PELLICIER, Nicholas SAMMONS, George SIGAL, Michael L. VOCK, Stanley T. SMITH, Carl C. STEVENS, Rodger D. OSBORNE, Kenneth E. PAGE, Michael T. WADE, Jon WILLOUGHBY, Lei WANG, Xinri CONG, Kin NG
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Patent number: 8510100Abstract: Methods and a system for a natural language control interface are provided to enable a user to modify various properties of a document. The modifications comprise building sentences from modification words, and combining them together in one display. The modifications are displayed in real time for a user to observe as they are inputted. The order of the modifications is managed by the user and is configured to be changed, added and/or removed.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2010Date of Patent: August 13, 2013Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Brian R. Glass, Jeremy Griffith, Paul W. Philippi, Michael T. Stevens
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Patent number: 8355572Abstract: What is disclosed is a system and method for mapping an out of gamut RGB color to a surface of a color gamut in RGB space. A point xc having {Rc Gc Bc} values in RGB space is identified which is outside a surface of a color gamut of a target device. A lightness value ? and a chroma vector {right arrow over (C)}=[Cr, Cg, Cb] are determined from the {Rc Gc Bc} values of the identified point. A minimum and a maximum saturation are determined for point xc. A new lightness value ?? and a new chroma vector {right arrow over (C)} are calculated based on the minimum and maximum saturation values, in a manner as is described herein in detail. The new lightness ?? and the new chroma vector {right arrow over (C)} are converted back into {R?c G?c B?c} values. The {R?c G?c B?c} values are provided to a gamut mapping function.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2009Date of Patent: January 15, 2013Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventor: Michael T. Stevens
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Patent number: 8264701Abstract: What is disclosed is a novel system and method for emulating transparency in a PostScript-enabled image forming device, such as a PostScript-enabled print device. The present system and method uses Adobe's DeviceN color space to support transparency printing on PostScript-enabled devices. The present method uses abstract data represented by a color plane in DeviceN space to indicate the existence of a transparency layer in the image to be printed. An emulation procedure is then called to perform a color space transformation and to perform color blending of the first image into the second image. A transparency value is used as one of the colorant channels to define the blending. Advantageously, the present method is backward compatible as there is no update required to the printer's driver or firmware. The present method has been demonstrated to work with Adobe Reader and PostScript Level-3.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2009Date of Patent: September 11, 2012Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventor: Michael T. Stevens
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Patent number: 8149454Abstract: A method of operating a color printer including using a first set of one-dimensional TRCs or a second set of one-dimensional TRCs with a single set of color tables.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2005Date of Patent: April 3, 2012Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Meng Yao, Michael T. Stevens, Paul W. Philippi, Michael D. Stevens
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Patent number: 8121402Abstract: A method for processing image data includes receiving image data including an assigned color space, comparing the assigned color space of the image data to a known color space, and processing the image data using the known color space in place of the assigned color space if the difference between the known color space and the defined color space is below an acceptable threshold. The method is particularly suited for use with Adobe® PostScript® applications.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2007Date of Patent: February 21, 2012Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventor: Michael T Stevens
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Publication number: 20110288854Abstract: Methods and a system for a natural language control interface are provided to enable a user to modify various properties of a document. The modifications comprise building sentences from modification words, and combining them together in one display. The modifications are displayed in real time for a user to observe as they are inputted. The order of the modifications is managed by the user and is configured to be changed, added and/or removed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2010Publication date: November 24, 2011Applicant: XEROX CORPORATIONInventors: Brian R. Glass, Jeremy Griffith, Paul W. Philippi, Michael T. Stevens
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Patent number: 7936917Abstract: Image processing systems and methods are presented for encoding 8-bit color image data to 4-bit data using an encoding table by assigning a pixel type value to each 8-bit pixel according to a 9×3 tiling pattern with 9 unique pixel type values in each 3×3 window of the 9×3 tiling pattern, and for decoding the 4-bit image data based on the pixel type value and the encoded data values for neighboring pixels.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2007Date of Patent: May 3, 2011Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventor: Michael T. Stevens
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Patent number: 7920292Abstract: Present systems and methods enable digital color printers to consistently print color output from computer generated image data that includes spot color definitions. Colors that are defined as spot colors can be separated from colors that are defined as combinations of process colors. Accordingly, color corrections can be separately applied to objects that are defined by spot color definitions to provide customized image processing that provides printed color images with improved quality.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2009Date of Patent: April 5, 2011Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventor: Michael T. Stevens
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Publication number: 20110044535Abstract: What is disclosed is a novel system and method for emulating transparency in a PostScript-enabled image forming device, such as a PostScript-enabled print device. The present system and method uses Adobe's DeviceN color space to support transparency printing on PostScript-enabled devices. The present method uses abstract data represented by a color plane in DeviceN space to indicate the existence of a transparency layer in the image to be printed. An emulation procedure is then called to perform a color space transformation and to perform color blending of the first image into the second image. A transparency value is used as one of the colorant channels to define the blending. Advantageously, the present method is backward compatible as there is no update required to the printer's driver or firmware. The present method has been demonstrated to work with Adobe Reader and PostScript Level-3.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2009Publication date: February 24, 2011Applicant: Xerox CorporationInventor: Michael T. STEVENS
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Patent number: 7864366Abstract: Document processing systems and methods are presented for transforming color image data from an input color space to output color space using space filling interpolation to mitigate loss of color information at the corners of color gamuts. An initial interpolation of the input color space pixel values for each pixel is performed to compute initial output color space pixel values, and these are converted into luminance-chrominance color space pixel values. An adjustment value ? is then computed according to the luminance-chrominance color space pixel values, and final output color space pixel values are computed according to the initial output color space pixel values and the adjustment value ?.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2007Date of Patent: January 4, 2011Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventor: Michael T. Stevens
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Publication number: 20100232693Abstract: What is disclosed is a system and method for mapping an out of gamut RGB color to a surface of a color gamut in RGB space. A point xc having {Rc, Gc, Bc} values in RGB space is identified which is outside a surface of a color gamut of a target device. A lightness value ? and a chroma vector c=[Cr, Cg, Cb] are determined from the {Rc, Gc, Bc} values of the identified point. A minimum and a maximum saturation are determined for point xc. A new lightness value ?? and a new chroma vector c? are calculated based on the minimum and maximum saturation values, in a manner as is described herein in detail. The new lightness ?? and the new chroma vector c? are converted back into {R?c, G?c, B?c} values. The {R?c, G?c, B?c} values are provided to a gamut mapping function.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2009Publication date: September 16, 2010Applicant: Xerox CorporationInventor: MICHAEL T. STEVENS
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Patent number: 7652599Abstract: What is disclosed is a novel system and method for performing renormalization in a data entropy reduction process of an image in a compression path. An accumulator is used for one of arithmetic encoding and decoding according to an arithmetic coding process and a number of most significant bits of the accumulator represents an output segment. If processing an input data symbol is determined to be able to cause a change in a value of the output segment, the encoding range is changed. If the size of the encoding range portion that can cause the output segment value to change is less than the size of the portion of the encoding range that fails to cause the change, the encoding range is limited to the size that can cause the change. Otherwise, the encoding range is set to the size that fails to cause the change.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2008Date of Patent: January 26, 2010Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventor: Michael T. Stevens
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Publication number: 20090303511Abstract: Present systems and methods enable digital color printers to consistently print color output from computer generated image data that includes spot color definitions. Colors that are defined as spot colors can be separated from colors that are defined as combinations of process colors. Accordingly, color corrections can be separately applied to objects that are defined by spot color definitions to provide customized image processing that provides printed color images with improved quality.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2009Publication date: December 10, 2009Applicant: Xerox CorprorationInventor: Michael T. Stevens
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Patent number: 7616346Abstract: Present systems and methods enable digital color printers to consistently print color output from computer generated image data that includes spot color definitions. Colors that are defined as spot colors can be separated from colors that are defined as combinations of process colors. Accordingly, color corrections can be separately applied to objects that are defined by spot color definitions to provide customized image processing that provides printed color images with improved quality.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2005Date of Patent: November 10, 2009Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventor: Michael T. Stevens
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Publication number: 20090141994Abstract: Image processing systems and methods are presented for encoding 8-bit color image data to 4-bit data using an encoding table by assigning a pixel type value to each 8-bit pixel according to a 9×3 tiling pattern with 9 unique pixel type values in each 3×3 window of the 9×3 tiling pattern, and for decoding the 4-bit image data based on the pixel type value and the encoded data values for neighboring pixels.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2007Publication date: June 4, 2009Applicant: XEROX CORPORATIONInventor: Michael T. Stevens
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Publication number: 20090066978Abstract: Document processing systems and methods are presented for transforming color image data from an input color space to output color space using space filling interpolation to mitigate loss of color information at the corners of color gamuts. An initial interpolation of the input color space pixel values for each pixel is performed to compute initial output color space pixel values, and these are converted into luminance-chrominance color space pixel values. An adjustment value ? is then computed according to the luminance-chrominance color space pixel values, and final output color space pixel values are computed according to the initial output color space pixel values and the adjustment value ?.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2007Publication date: March 12, 2009Inventor: Michael T. Stevens
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Publication number: 20090060322Abstract: A method for processing image data includes receiving image data including an assigned color space, comparing the assigned color space of the image data to a known color space, and processing the image data using the known color space in place of the assigned color space if the difference between the known color space and the defined color space is below an acceptable threshold. The method is particularly suited for use with Adobe® PostScript® applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2007Publication date: March 5, 2009Applicant: XEROX CORPORATIONInventor: Michael T. Stevens
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Patent number: 7310165Abstract: Dynamic Color Render Dictionaries are provided to automatically switch color rendering behavior between object types. The implementation resides entirely within the Color Render Dictionary (CRD) and require no changes to the state of the Postscript interpreter (There are no required “C” code changes and Postscript operator redefinitions.) The different color rendering behaviors are accomplished by concatenating multiple color transform tables into a single/RenderTable within the CRD. The different rendering behaviors are accessible to single graphics state by simply accessing different regions of the /RenderTable. By having the color rendering behavior “switch” without changing the graphic state makes the implementation very fast. Since the entire implementation is limited to the Color Rendering Dictionary, dynamic CRDs may be implemented on any existing Postscript printer. Even on ones that have been in the field for years.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2002Date of Patent: December 18, 2007Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventor: Michael T. Stevens
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Patent number: 7274488Abstract: Differentiating between image and graphic objects contained within a Color Rendering Dictionary improves printing efficiency. The differentiation between image and graphic objects is accomplished by monitoring the sequence in which Color Rendering Dictionary procedures are executed. Based on the monitored sequence, an image or graphic object is determined to be used for rendering.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2002Date of Patent: September 25, 2007Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventor: Michael T. Stevens