Patents by Inventor Nigel John
Nigel John 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: 20230377025Abstract: A method of measuring parameters associated with a website comprising a complex hierarchy of web pages is described. The method is used for a website adapted to support a user journey through multiple web pages to a user destination. The user journey is defined as a sequence of functional steps. A machine learning system is provided which is trained to provide a website navigation system adapted to navigate from a landing screen to a destination screen by performing each functional step in the sequence. The website is then navigated from the landing screen to the destination screen for that website using the website navigation system. One or more parameters resulting from, or associated with, one or more steps of the journey from the landing screen to the destination screen for the website are measured. A computing system suitable for performing the method, and a method of building a suitable website navigation system are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2021Publication date: November 23, 2023Inventors: Raghav Malik, Simon Phillips, Nigel John Raynor
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Patent number: 11823045Abstract: An encoding apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises an input unit operable to obtain a plurality of training images, said training images being for use in training a machine learning model. The apparatus also comprises a label unit operable to obtain a class label associated with the training images; and a key unit operable to obtain a secret key for use in encoding the training images. The apparatus further comprises an image noise generator operable to generate, based on the obtained secret key, noise for introducing into the training images. The image noise generator is configured to generate noise that correlates with the class label associated with the training images such that a machine learning model subsequently trained with the modified training images learns to associate the introduced noise with the class label for those images. A corresponding decoding apparatus is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2020Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Mark Jacobus Breugelmans, Oliver Hume, Fabio Cappello, Nigel John Williams
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Publication number: 20230338246Abstract: A solid antiperspirant stick composition in the form of a water-in-oil emulsion comprising (i) an aqueous phase comprising dissolved aluminium sesquichlorohydrate antiperspirant active; (ii) an oil phase comprising a solidifying agent; (iii) an emulsifier and (iv) at least 5% by weight of a polyol selected from glycerol, propylene glycol and/or PEG oligomers having a molecular weight of from 180 to 420.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2021Publication date: October 26, 2023Inventors: Nigel John Cross, Bruce Steven Emslie, Craig James Luckwell
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Patent number: 11785328Abstract: A system for adjusting the pose of a camera relative to a subject in a scene is provided. The system comprises a camera operable to capture images of a scene; an identification unit configured to identify an object of interest in images of the scene; a pose processor configured to obtain a pose of the object of interest in the scene relative to the camera; a scene analyser operable to determine, based on at least one of the obtained pose of the object of interest and images captured by the camera, a scene quality associated with images captured by the camera. A controller is configured to cause the pose of the camera to be adjusted based on a determination that the scene quality of an image captured at a current pose is less than a threshold value. A corresponding device is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Nigel John Williams, Fabio Cappello, Rajeev Gupta, Mark Jacobus Breugelmans
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Patent number: 11762459Abstract: An apparatus includes a video display to display video images to a user; a gaze detector configured to detect a gaze direction for one or both eyes of the user while the user views the display; a head tracker configured to detect a head orientation of the user; an image processor configured to generate the video images for display by the video display; the image processor being responsive to one or more control functions dependent upon the gaze direction detected by the gaze detector; and a controller configured to detect a predetermined condition and, in response to detection of the predetermined condition, to control the image processor to be responsive to one or more control functions dependent upon the head orientation detected by the head tracker in place of the one or more control functions dependent upon the gaze direction detected by the gaze detector.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Andrew William Walker, Nigel John Williams, Mandana Jenabzadeh, Rosario Leonardi
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Publication number: 20230289186Abstract: A data transfer instruction is provided which specifies register addressing information for identifying a target portion of the register storage. In response to the data transfer instruction, instruction decoding circuitry controls processing circuitry to perform a data transfer operation to transfer data to or from the target portion of the register storage. The register addressing information includes at least: a base register identifier identifying a base register of the register storage for storing a base value; and an immediate value specified in an encoding of the data transfer instruction, the immediate value representing a value to be added to the base value to provide an index value for selecting the target portion of the register storage. This can be useful to provide an instruction set architecture which supports code that is scalable to variable data structure sizes, and which supports loop unrolling.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2021Publication date: September 14, 2023Inventors: Nigel John STEPHENS, Jelena MILANOVIC, David Hennah MANSELL
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Publication number: 20230273792Abstract: Instruction decoder to decode processing instructions; one or more first registers; first processing circuitry to execute the decoded processing instructions in a first processing mode and configured to execute the decoded processing instructions using the one or more first registers; and control circuitry to execute the decoded processing instructions in a second processing mode using one or more second registers; the instruction decoder being configured to decode processing instructions selected from a first instruction set and a second instruction set in the second processing mode, in which one or both of the first and second instruction sets comprises at least one unique instruction set; the instruction decoder configured to decode one or more mode change instructions to change between the first and second processing mode; and the first processing circuitry configured to change the current processing mode between the first and second processing mode responding to executing mode change instruction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2021Publication date: August 31, 2023Inventors: Nigel John STEPHENS, David Hennah MANSELL, Richard Roy GRISENTHWAITE, Matthew Lucien EVANS, Jelena MILANOVIC
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Patent number: 11725054Abstract: The present disclosure relates to proteins that bind to CD83 and uses thereof, for example, in therapy, prophylaxis, diagnosis, or prognosis.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2020Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignees: KIRA BIOTECH PTY LIMITED, THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND, THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAInventors: Therese Ann Seldon, David John Munster, Derek Nigel John Hart, Martina Louise Jones, Trent Phillip Munro, Stephen Michael Mahler, Yu Zhou, James D. Marks
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Patent number: 11710256Abstract: A method of generating a 3D reconstruction of a scene, the scene comprising a plurality of cameras positioned around the scene, comprises: obtaining the extrinsics and intrinsics of a virtual camera within a scene; accessing a data structure so as to determine a camera pair that is to be used in reconstructing the scene from the viewpoint of the virtual camera; wherein the data structure defines a voxel representation of the scene, the voxel representation comprising a plurality of voxels, at least some of the voxel surfaces being associated with respective camera pair identifiers; wherein each camera pair identifier associated with a respective voxel surface corresponds to a camera pair that has been identified as being suitable for obtaining depth data for the part of the scene within that voxel and for which the averaged pose of the camera pair is oriented towards the voxel surface; identifying, based on the obtained extrinsics and intrinsics of the virtual camera, at least one voxel that is within the fieType: GrantFiled: August 31, 2020Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Nigel John Williams, Andrew William Walker
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Publication number: 20230222226Abstract: A technique includes an operating system agent of a computer system monitoring a process to detect whether an integrity of the process has been compromised. The monitoring includes the operating system agent scanning a data structure. The process executes in a user space, and the data structure is part of an operating system kernel space. The technique includes a hardware controller of the computer system listening for a heartbeat that is generated by the operating system agent. The hardware controller takes a corrective action in response to at least one of the hardware controller detecting an interruption of the heartbeat, or the operating system agent communicating to the hardware controller a security alert for the process.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2023Publication date: July 13, 2023Inventors: Geoffrey Ndu, Nigel John Edwards
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Publication number: 20230215047Abstract: Methods and/or apparatus provide for obtaining intrinsics and extrinsics of a plurality of cameras arranged to capture a scene and based thereon, generate a voxel representation of the scene; obtaining extrinsics and intrinsics of a virtual camera; mapping the extrinsics and intrinsics of the virtual camera to at least one voxel surface defined in a data structure and to identify at least one camera pair suitable for obtaining depth data for that voxel surface based on the corresponding camera pair identifier; and receiving an input from the mapping unit, and in response obtaining images captured by the cameras in the at least one camera pair identified as being suitable for reconstructing the scene from the viewpoint of the virtual camera, and to generate an image of the scene from the viewpoint of the virtual camera based on the obtained images.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2023Publication date: July 6, 2023Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Nigel John Williams, Andrew William Walker
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Patent number: 11650417Abstract: Apparatus comprises an image processor configured to provide output video images to a head mountable display, HMD, having one or more display elements to display video images to a wearer of the HMD, for display by the one or more display elements in response to input video images, in which each output video image corresponds to a respective input video image; in which: the image processor comprises a detector configured to detect whether an input image brightness at image locations in the input video images exceeds a threshold image brightness; and the image processor is configured to vary a relationship between the display properties at a given image location in a given output video image and the input image display properties at the given image location in the corresponding input video image in response to a detection that image brightness at the given image location in one or more input video images preceding that corresponding input video image exceeded the threshold image brightness.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Nigel John Williams, Patrick John Connor
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Publication number: 20230137893Abstract: N-(3-Substituted thiazol-2(3H)-ylidene)-1H-pyrrolo[2,3-b]pyridine-3-carboxamides and N-(3-substituted oxazol-2(3H)-ylidene)-1H-pyrrolo[2,3-b]pyridine-3-carboxamides are disclosed. The compounds activate Yap and inhibit Lats kinases. They are therefore useful for treating hearing loss.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2021Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicant: The Rockefeller UniversityInventors: Ksenia GNEDEVA, A. James HUDSPETH, Nathaniel KASTAN, Rui LIANG, Peter T. MEINKE, David John HUGGINS, Nigel John LIVERTON, Leigh Ashley BAXT, John David GINN, Robert Walter MYERS
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Patent number: 11636214Abstract: A technique includes an operating system agent of a computer system monitoring a process to detect whether an integrity of the process has been compromised. The monitoring includes the operating system agent scanning a data structure. The process executes in a user space, and the data structure is part of an operating system kernel space. The technique includes a hardware controller of the computer system listening for a heartbeat that is generated by the operating system agent. The hardware controller takes a corrective action in response to at least one of the hardware controller detecting an interruption of the heartbeat, or the operating system agent communicating to the hardware controller a security alert for the process.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2020Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LPInventors: Geoffrey Ndu, Nigel John Edwards
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Patent number: 11611297Abstract: A motor control system configured to detect a pinch condition of a structure actuated by a motor includes a pinch detection module configured to receive a current signal indicative of a motor current, determine a rate of change of current based on the current signal, and generate a pinch signal indicative of the pinch condition in response to either one of the motor current being greater than a current threshold and the rate of change of current being greater than a rate of change threshold. The motor control system further includes a position control module configured to control the motor to actuate the structure in response to an input and at least one of stop and reverse the motor in response to the pinch signal.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2020Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Gentherm Inc.Inventors: Patrick Jordan, Dusko Petrovski, Nigel John Allison
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Publication number: 20230071832Abstract: A system for improving a discovery process for a virtual environment, the system comprising an environment discovery unit operable to perform a discovery process comprising navigation of the virtual environment and identification of one or more aspects of the virtual environment, a performance analysis unit operable to evaluate the effectiveness of the discovery process, and a discovery update unit operable to modify future operation of the environment discovery unit in dependence upon the evaluation.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2022Publication date: March 9, 2023Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Fabio Cappello, Maurizio Cerrato, Rosario Leonardi, Gregory James Bedwell, Nigel John Williams
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Publication number: 20230063312Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an isolated antibody, or antigen binding fragment thereof, which specifically binds to an extracellular domain of cd300f, wherein the antibody, or antigen binding fragment thereof, comprises a heavy chain variable region which comprises: (a) an amino acid sequence that is at least 70% identical to the amino acid sequence represented by seq id no: 1; and/or (b) a complementarity determining region 1 (cdr1) that comprises the amino acid sequence represented by seq id no: 2, a complementarity determining region 2 (cdr2) that comprises an amino acid sequence that is represented by seq id no: 3, and/or a complementarity determining region 3 (cdr3) that comprises an amino acid sequence that is represented by seq id no: 4, compositions comprising the antibody, antigen binding fragment thereof, and uses for therapy.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2017Publication date: March 2, 2023Applicant: DENDROCYTE BIOTECH PTY LTDInventors: Derek Nigel John HART, Georgina Jane CLARK, Robin GASIOROWSKI
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Publication number: 20230049131Abstract: In some examples, a system receives first measurements of data items used by a build server in building an executable program, the data items copied from a data repository to a storage partition that is separate from the data repository, and the storage partition to store the data items relating to building the executable program by the build server. The system determines, based on the first measurements and according to a policy specified for the storage partition, whether a corruption of the data items used by the build server in building the executable program has occurred.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2021Publication date: February 16, 2023Inventors: Nigel John Edwards, Guilherme de Campos Magalhaes
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Patent number: 11538223Abstract: A system for modifying data representing a virtual environment includes: an environment navigation unit operable to control navigation within the virtual environment to generate one or more viewpoints within the virtual environment, an environment identification unit operable to identify one or more aspects of the geometry of the virtual environment visible in the one or more viewpoints, a geometry evaluation unit operable to evaluate the visibility of one or more aspects of the geometry based upon the identification for each of one or more viewpoints, and a data modification unit operable to modify one or more elements of data representing the virtual environment.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: Sony Interacetive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Fabio Cappello, Maurizio Cerrato, Rosario Leonardi, Gregory James Bedwell, Nigel John Williams
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Patent number: D983962Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: Adherium (NZ) LimitedInventors: Stuart Malcolm Cannan, Nigel John Devine, Michael James Gormack, Benjamin Lance Catt