Patents by Inventor Neal Bangerter

Neal Bangerter 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: 20110298589
    Abstract: The identification of a data storage device detected on a touch-sensitive display surface of a display device is described. In one embodiment, the presence and location of the data storage device is detected on the display surface and the data storage device is detected on a wireless communications channel. It is then confirmed that the data storage device detected on the wireless communications channel is the data storage device detected on the surface of the display device by communicating with the data storage device over a second communications channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Craig McFarlane, Dana L. Silverstein, Victor Drake, Kevin Kennedy, Cyra Richardson, Nigel Keam, Neal Bangerter
  • Patent number: 8063888
    Abstract: The identification of a data storage device detected on a touch-sensitive display surface of a display device is described. In one embodiment, the presence and location of the data storage device is detected on the display surface and the data storage device is detected on a wireless communications channel. It is then confirmed that the data storage device detected on the wireless communications channel is the data storage device detected on the surface of the display device by communicating with the data storage device over a second communications channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Craig McFarlane, Dana L. Silverstein, Victor Drake, Kevin Kennedy, Cyra Richardson, Nigel Keam, Neal Bangerter
  • Publication number: 20080198138
    Abstract: The identification of a data storage device detected on a touch-sensitive display surface of a display device is described. In one embodiment, the presence and location of the data storage device is detected on the display surface and the data storage device is detected on a wireless communications channel. It is then confirmed that the data storage device detected on the wireless communications channel is the data storage device detected on the surface of the display device by communicating with the data storage device over a second communications channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2007
    Publication date: August 21, 2008
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Craig McFarlane, Dana L. Silverstein, Victor Drake, Kevin Kennedy, Cyra Richardson, Nigel Keam, Neal Bangerter
  • Publication number: 20070057672
    Abstract: MRI signals from two species such as fat and water are separated by repeatedly applying a steady state free precession (SSFP) sequence to an object with the phase of each RF excitation pulse in a sequence being increased by 2?n/N radians on each repetition, where acquisition number n ranges from 1 to N. Alternatively, center frequency for each scan is incremented compared with the first scan center frequency. Images are reconstructed from the acquired signals and summed. Slowing varying phase due to sources other than chemical shift can be removed. Species signals are separated based on phase (sign) of the summed image signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2005
    Publication date: March 15, 2007
    Inventors: Brian Hargreaves, Neal Bangerter
  • Publication number: 20050030023
    Abstract: Artifact reduction in steady state free precession magnetic resonance imaging uses weighting of acquired image data to emphasize higher signals and then establishing an image signal based on the combined weighted signals. In one embodiment, a SSFP imaging sequence uses phase cycling and acquired image data is squared with the squared data then combined. The final image signal is based on the square root of the squared data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2003
    Publication date: February 10, 2005
    Inventors: Neal Bangerter, Dwight Nishimura