Patents by Inventor Miguel Marques
Miguel Marques 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: 11375749Abstract: An aerosol-generating system is provided, including a cartridge and an aerosol-generating device; the cartridge including a cartridge body defining a substrate compartment and a heater cavity, and an aerosol-forming substrate positioned within the substrate compartment; the aerosol-generating device including a housing defining a device cavity configured to receive at least a portion of the cartridge body, and an elongate electric heater disposed in the device cavity; and a thermally conductive sheath secured over the elongate electric heater such that the electric heater is substantially enclosed within the thermally conductive sheath along at least part of a length thereof; in which the thermally conductive sheath and the electric heater are configured to extend into the heater cavity of the cartridge when the cartridge is received in the device cavity such that the substrate compartment of the cartridge is heated by the electric heater via the thermally conductive sheath.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2018Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.Inventors: Miguel Marques Borges, Marie Farine, Dani Ruscio, Ali Murat Saygili
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Patent number: 11238285Abstract: Image analysis includes obtaining, from an image signal processor, image processing information corresponding to a previously processed image, obtaining scene classification information for an input image based on the image processing information, generating a processed image by processing the input image based on the scene classification information, and outputting the processed image. The image processing information includes automatic white balance correction information and obtaining the scene classification information includes obtaining the scene classification information based on the automatic white balance correction information.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2021Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: GoPro, Inc.Inventors: Sylvain Leroy, Adrien Cariou, Miguel Marques, Julien Caron, Bruno Faure, Stéphane Belardi
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Publication number: 20220030152Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for high dynamic range anti-ghosting and fusion. For example, methods may include receiving images from image sensors in a linear domain, each image having different exposures or gains, blending luminance values at each pixel from each of the images to generate a blended image, selecting an useful image based on degree of useful information for a pixel, calculating a distance value from the images for the pixel, locating from a look-up table (LUT) an anti-ghosting weight using the useful image and the distance value for the pixel, proportionally applying the located anti-ghosting weight to the pixel for each of the input images to generate an output image, all being performed in the linear domain, and storing, displaying, or transmitting the output image based on at least the anti-ghosting weight.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2019Publication date: January 27, 2022Inventors: Guillaume Matthieu Guérin, Julien Caron, Miguel Marques
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Publication number: 20210224543Abstract: Image analysis includes obtaining, from an image signal processor, image processing information corresponding to a previously processed image, obtaining scene classification information for an input image based on the image processing information, generating a processed image by processing the input image based on the scene classification information, and outputting the processed image. The image processing information includes automatic white balance correction information and obtaining the scene classification information includes obtaining the scene classification information based on the automatic white balance correction information.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2021Publication date: July 22, 2021Inventors: Sylvain Leroy, Adrien Cariou, Miguel Marques, Julien Caron, Bruno Faure, Stéphane Belardi
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Patent number: 10970552Abstract: Image analysis includes obtaining, from an image signal processor, image processing information corresponding to a previously processed image, obtaining scene classification information for an input image based on the image processing information, generating a processed image by processing the input image based on the scene classification information, and outputting the processed image. The image processing information includes automatic white balance correction information and obtaining the scene classification information includes obtaining the scene classification information based on the automatic white balance correction information.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2018Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: GoPro, Inc.Inventors: Sylvain Leroy, Adrien Cariou, Miguel Marques, Julien Caron, Bruno Faure, Stéphane Belardi
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Publication number: 20200107572Abstract: An aerosol-generating system is provided, including a cartridge and an aerosol-generating device; the cartridge including a cartridge body defining a substrate compartment and a heater cavity, and an aerosol-forming substrate positioned within the substrate compartment; the aerosol-generating device including a housing defining a device cavity configured to receive at least a portion of the cartridge body, and an elongate electric heater disposed in the device cavity; and a thermally conductive sheath secured over the elongate electric heater such that the electric heater is substantially enclosed within the thermally conductive sheath along at least part of a length thereof; in which the thermally conductive sheath and the electric heater are configured to extend into the heater cavity of the cartridge when the cartridge is received in the device cavity such that the substrate compartment of the cartridge is heated by the electric heater via the thermally conductive sheath.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2018Publication date: April 9, 2020Applicant: Philip Morris Products S.A.Inventors: Miguel MARQUES BORGES, Marie FARINE, Dani RUSCIO, Ali Murat SAYGILI
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Publication number: 20190095713Abstract: Image analysis includes obtaining, from an image signal processor, image processing information corresponding to a previously processed image, obtaining scene classification information for an input image based on the image processing information, generating a processed image by processing the input image based on the scene classification information, and outputting the processed image. The image processing information includes automatic white balance correction information and obtaining the scene classification information includes obtaining the scene classification information based on the automatic white balance correction information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2018Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: Sylvain Leroy, Adrien Cariou, Miguel Marques, Julien Caron, Bruno Faure, Stéphane Belardi
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Publication number: 20170106963Abstract: The present invention pertains to aeronautical engineering and consists of an airborne platform for power generation through wind energy harnessing that can be built to large sizes without requiring a rigid structure of comparable dimensions and which uses both buoyancy and the aerodynamic Magnus effect for lift. The aerodynamic lift is generated in lifting bodies (1), which also contain buoyant gas. The lifting bodies (1) are stacked in a column, at the bottom of which there is a structural anchoring module (2) which also contains buoyant gas. The lifting bodies (1) and anchoring modules (2) are connected by slender structural elements which, when taken together as a whole form a non-rigid assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2016Publication date: April 20, 2017Applicant: OMNIDEA, LDA.Inventors: Tiago COSTA DUARTE PARDAL, Pedro Miguel MARQUES DOS SANTOS SILVA
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Patent number: 9527072Abstract: A solid composition comprises: MnO2; and a compound represented by the general formula (I) wherein: R is a polymer; each Y is independently a hydrogen or a negative charge; Z is either hydrogen or is not present; each n is independently 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6; wherein the MnO2 is bound to the compound of formula (I) so as to coat the surface thereof. Such a composition may be used for the separation of polyvalent metal species, such as Mo, from one or more accompanying impurities.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2014Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: Mallinckrodt LLCInventor: Luis Antonio Miguel Marques Barbosa
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Patent number: 9367928Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for matching point regions in images with radial distortion that, given two frames acquired by a camera with radial distortion, estimates the global image distortion and the local transformations undergone by the image regions between frames, with the objective of accurately tracking an aligning these image regions in a sequence of frames, calibrating the radial distortion using only moving image points, or estimating the relative change in focal length in cameras with radial distortion and variable zoom using only moving image points, and that comprises the following steps: extracting local image features; tracking local features; and determining the radial distortion calibration based on a computational efficient procedure that uses the information for all local features being tracked.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2013Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: Universidade de CoimbraInventors: Joao Pedro de Almeida Barreto, Antonio Miguel Marques Rodrigues Teixeira Lourenco, Rui Jorge Melo Teixeira
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Publication number: 20150254872Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for matching point regions in images with radial distortion that, given two frames acquired by a camera with radial distortion, estimates the global image distortion and the local transformations undergone by the image regions between frames, with the objective of accurately tracking an aligning these image regions in a sequence of frames, calibrating the radial distortion using only moving image points, or estimating the relative change in focal length in cameras with radial distortion and variable zoom using only moving image points, and that comprises the following steps: extracting local image features; tracking local features; and determining the radial distortion calibration based on a computational efficient procedure that uses the information for all local features being tracked.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2013Publication date: September 10, 2015Inventors: Joao Pedro de Almeida Barreto, Antonio Miguel Marques Rodrigues Teixeira Lourenco, Rui Jorge Melo Teixeira
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Publication number: 20140231709Abstract: A solid composition comprises: MnO2; and a compound represented by the general formula (I) wherein: R is a polymer; each Y is independently a hydrogen or a negative charge; Z is either hydrogen or is not present; each n is independently 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6; wherein the MnO2 is bound to the compound of formula (I) so as to coat the surface thereof. Such a composition may be used for the separation of polyvalent metal species, such as Mo, from one or more accompanying impurities.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2014Publication date: August 21, 2014Applicant: Mallinckrodt LLCInventor: Luis Antonio Miguel Marques Barbosa
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Patent number: 8753590Abstract: A solid composition comprises: MnO2; and a compound represented by the general formula (I) wherein: R is a polymer; each Y is independently a hydrogen or a negative charge; Z is either hydrogen or is not present; each n is independently 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6; wherein the MnO2 is bound to the compound of formula (I) so as to coat the surface thereof. Such a composition may be used for the separation of polyvalent metal species, such as Mo, from one or more accompanying impurities.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2012Date of Patent: June 17, 2014Assignee: Mallinckrodt LLCInventor: Luis Antonio Miguel Marques Barbosa
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Publication number: 20140001308Abstract: The invention pertains to aeronautical engineering and consists of an airborne platform that can be built to large sizes without requiring a rigid structure of comparable dimensions and which uses both buoyancy and the aerodynamic Magnus effect for lift. The aerodynamic lift is generated in lifting bodies (1), which also contain buoyant gas. The lifting bodies (1) are stacked in a column, at the bottom of which there is a structural anchoring module (2) which also contains buoyant gas. The lifting bodies (1) and anchoring modules (2) are connected by slender structural elements which, when taken together as a whole form a non-rigid assembly. The platform may be tethered or configured as an aircraft, for which purpose other features may be added, such as a propulsion system (11), a crew gondola (6), cables to (7) and from (8) a swivel (12) and a payload (10) connected to said cables.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2012Publication date: January 2, 2014Applicant: OMNIDEA LDA.Inventors: Tiago Costa Duarte Pardal, Pedro Miguel Marques Dos Santos Silva
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Patent number: 8318113Abstract: A solid composition comprises: —MnO2; and—a compound represented by the general formula (I) wherein: R is a polymer; each Y is independently a hydrogen or a negative charge; Z is either hydrogen or is not present; each n is independently 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6; wherein the MnO2 is bound to the compound of formula (I) so as to coat the surface thereof. Such a composition may be used for the separation of polyvalent metal species, such as Mo, from one or more accompanying impurities.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2008Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Mallinckrodt LLCInventor: Luis Antonio Miguel Marques Barbosa
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Patent number: 8159751Abstract: Image display device having an image source generating an image, a beam splitter positioned at forty five degrees to the main optical path, to project and focus the image generated by the image source into the entrance pupil of the human eye, two achromatic standard doublet lenses positioned perpendicularly to the main optical path and placed between the image source and the beam splitter, and configured to amplify, collimate, and correct optical aberrations of said image, wherein the image source, beam splitter and the doublet lenses are in an on-axis configuration and the image display device comprises two mounting brackets parallel to the main optical axis, each having an extremity part holding an edge of the beam splitter and the other extremity pivotally attached to a housing, allowing the brackets and beam splitter to rotate in an axis perpendicular to the main optical path.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2010Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Inventor: Miguel Marques Martins
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Publication number: 20100254017Abstract: Image display device having an image source generating an image, a beam splitter positioned at forty five degrees to the main optical path, to project and focus the image generated by the image source into the entrance pupil of the human eye, two achromatic standard doublet lenses positioned perpendicularly to the main optical path and placed between the image source and the beam splitter, and configured to amplify, collimate, and correct optical aberrations of said image, wherein the image source, beam splitter and the doublet lenses are in an on-axis configuration and the image display device comprises two mounting brackets parallel to the main optical axis, each having an extremity part holding an edge of the beam splitter and the other extremity pivotally attached to a housing, allowing the brackets and beam splitter to rotate in an axis perpendicular to the main optical path.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2010Publication date: October 7, 2010Inventor: Miguel Marques Martins
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Publication number: 20100202943Abstract: A solid composition comprises: —MnO2; and—a compound represented by the general formula (I) wherein: R is a polymer; each Y is independently a hydrogen or a negative charge; Z is either hydrogen or is not present; each n is independently 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6; wherein the MnO2 is bound to the compound of formula (I) so as to coat the surface thereof. Such a composition may be used for the separation of polyvalent metal species, such as Mo, from one or more accompanying impurities.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2008Publication date: August 12, 2010Inventor: Luis Antonio Miguel Marques Barbosa