Patents by Inventor Paul A. Duffy

Paul A. Duffy 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: 20200410231
    Abstract: A method for extracting data from lineless tables includes storing an image including a table in a memory. A processor operably coupled to the memory identifies a plurality of text-based characters in the image, and defines multiple bounding boxes based on the characters. Each of the bounding boxes is uniquely associated with at least one of the text-based characters. A graph including multiple nodes and multiple edges is generated based on the bounding boxes, using a graph construction algorithm. At least one of the edges is identified for removal from the graph, and removed from the graph to produce a reduced graph. The reduced graph can be sent to a neural network to predict row labels and column labels for the table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Freddy Chongtat CHUA, Tigran ISHKHANOV, Nigel Paul DUFFY
  • Publication number: 20200405995
    Abstract: A supplemental oxygen delivery system is described in which Aerosol is delivered into a housing 10, 20, which sits in the circuit from the supplemental oxygen supply and optional humidifier. The supplemental oxygen passes through this chamber 10, 20 in which the aerosol is located, and collects the aerosol transporting it to a patient via a nasal cannula 3 or a face mask 4. An aerosol generator 9 is mounted to the housing 10, 20 and delivers aerosol into an oxygen stream 13 flowing between an inlet 14 and an outlet 15 of the housing 10. The housing 10 also has a removable plug 16 in the base 17 thereof for draining any liquid that accumulates in the housing 10. There is no disruption of oxygen delivery to patients using nasal cannulas who currently have to use a separate face-mask when receiving nebulized medication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: Stamford Devices Limited
    Inventors: John Sylvester Power, James B. Fink, Conor Paul Duffy, Trevor Stephen Fahy
  • Publication number: 20200327373
    Abstract: An object-extraction method includes generating multiple partition objects based on an electronic document, and receiving a first user selection of a data element via a user interface of a compute device. In response to the first user selection, and using a machine learning model, a first subset of partition objects from the multiple partition objects is detected and displayed via the user interface. A user interaction, via the user interface, with one of the partition objects is detected, and in response, a weight of the machine learning model is modified, to produce a modified machine learning model. A second user selection of the data element is received via the user interface, and in response and using the modified machine learning model, a second subset of partition objects from the multiple partition objects is detected and displayed via the user interface, the second subset different from the first subset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Applicant: Ernst & Young U.S. LLP
    Inventors: Dan G. TECUCI, Ravi Kiran Reddy PALLA, Hamid Reza Motahari NEZHAD, Vincent POON, Nigel Paul DUFFY, Joseph NIPKO
  • Publication number: 20200327407
    Abstract: A multi-label ranking method includes receiving, at a processor and from a first set of artificial neural networks (ANNs), multiple signals representing a first set of ANN output pairs for a first label. A signal representing a second set of ANN output pairs for a second label different from the first label is received at the processor from a second set of ANNs different from the first set of ANNs, substantially concurrently with the first set of ANN output pairs. A first activation function is solved based on the first set of ANN output pairs, and a second activation function is solved based on the second set of ANN output pairs. Loss values are calculated based on the solved activations, and a mask is generated based on at least one ground truth label. A signal, including a representation of the mask, is sent from the processor to each of the sets of ANNs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventors: Vincent POON, Nigel Paul DUFFY, Ravi Kiran Reddy PALLA
  • Patent number: 10792455
    Abstract: A supplemental oxygen delivery system is described in which Aerosol is delivered into a housing 10, 20, which sits in the circuit from the supplemental oxygen supply and optional humidifier. The supplemental oxygen passes through this chamber 10, 20 in which the aerosol is located, and collects the aerosol transporting it to a patient via a nasal cannula 3 or a face mask 4. An aerosol generator 9 is mounted to the housing 10, 20 and delivers aerosol into an oxygen stream 13 flowing between an inlet 14 and an outlet 15 of the housing 10. The housing 10 also has a removable plug 16 in the base 17 thereof for draining any liquid that accumulates in the housing 10. There is no disruption of oxygen delivery to patients using nasal cannulas who currently have to use a separate face-mask when receiving nebulized medication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: STAMFORD DEVICES LIMITED
    Inventors: John Sylvester Power, James B. Fink, Conor Paul Duffy, Trevor Stephen Fahy
  • Publication number: 20200155786
    Abstract: A supplemental oxygen delivery system is described in which Aerosol is delivered into a housing 10, 20, which sits in the circuit from the supplemental oxygen supply and optional humidifier. The supplemental oxygen passes through this chamber 10, 20 in which the aerosol is located, and collects the aerosol transporting it to a patient via a nasal cannula 3 or a face mask 4. An aerosol generator 9 is mounted to the housing 10, 20 and delivers aerosol into an oxygen stream 13 flowing between an inlet 14 and an outlet 15 of the housing 10. The housing 10 also has a removable plug 16 in the base 17 thereof for draining any liquid that accumulates in the housing 10. There is no disruption of oxygen delivery to patients using nasal cannulas who currently have to use a separate face-mask when receiving nebulized medication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Applicant: Stamford Devices Limited
    Inventors: John Sylvester Power, James B. Fink, Conor Paul Duffy, Trevor Stephen Fahy
  • Patent number: 10614345
    Abstract: An object-extraction method includes generating multiple partition objects based on an electronic document, and receiving a first user selection of a data element via a user interface of a compute device. In response to the first user selection, and using a machine learning model, a first subset of partition objects from the multiple partition objects is detected and displayed via the user interface. A user interaction, via the user interface, with one of the partition objects is detected, and in response, a weight of the machine learning model is modified, to produce a modified machine learning model. A second user selection of the data element is received via the user interface, and in response and using the modified machine learning model, a second subset of partition objects from the multiple partition objects is detected and displayed via the user interface, the second subset different from the first subset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Ernst & Young U.S. LLP
    Inventors: Dan G. Tecuci, Ravi Kiran Reddy Palla, Hamid Reza Motahari Nezhad, Vincent Poon, Nigel Paul Duffy, Joseph Nipko
  • Publication number: 20190160236
    Abstract: An aerosol generator is positioned adjacent to a patient as an attachment to a trocar. The trocar has an entry port for insufflation gas. Aerosol generated by a vibrating element is entrained in the insufflation gas and the mixture is delivered through the trocar. The aerosol may contain a medicament. The trocar may be a conventional trocar. Such trocars are typically used for a camera. The delivery of the aerosolized medicament can occur at the start of the procedure and be delivered in bolus. At the start of the procedure, the peritoneum is being inflated by means of the flow of insufflator gas. This gas flow will help to entrain the aerosolized medicament to the pneumoperitoneum regions. The surgeon can temporarily remove the camera from the trocar port to facilitate insertion and positioning of the aerosolizing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Applicant: Aerosurgical Limited
    Inventors: Patrick Joseph Power, Conor Paul Duffy
  • Patent number: 10166348
    Abstract: An aerosol generator is positioned adjacent to a patient as an attachment to a trocar. The trocar has an entry port for insufflation gas. Aerosol generated by a vibrating element is entrained in the insufflation gas and the mixture is delivered through the trocar. The aerosol may contain a medicament. The trocar may be a conventional trocar. Such trocars are typically used for a camera. The delivery of the aerosolized medicament can occur at the start of the procedure and be delivered in bolus. At the start of the procedure, the peritoneum is being inflated by means of the flow of insufflator gas. This gas flow will help to entrain the aerosolized medicament to the pneumoperitoneum regions. The surgeon can temporarily remove the camera from the trocar port to facilitate insertion and positioning of the aerosolizing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Aerosurgical Limited
    Inventors: Patrick Joseph Power, Conor Paul Duffy
  • Patent number: 10108681
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for expanding a row or column in an existing report, sourced from a relational database, where a column or row, respectively, of an opposite axis has already been expanded. Such a need often arises in reports sourced from a SQL database, and overcomes the storage-draining need to pre-compute all possible arrangements of data from the database prior to displaying the report. In some embodiments, a client can make a request for a multi-axis expansion, and a server can create filters for use in sub queries, one for each level of expansion in an axis of the report opposite to the axis where expansion is requested, the sub queries can be executed, results sets can be combined/formatted to form a new report, and the new report can be returned to the client for stitching into the existing report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: insightsoftware.com International Unlimited
    Inventors: Paul Duffy, Amir Kashani
  • Patent number: 9904066
    Abstract: A method and structure for displaying a simulated 3D image which may be projected utilizing front projectors and two screens, where the front screen may be a rear-projecting screen with a linear polarization film attached and a background screen which may contain a further image which varies in a programmed manner in keeping with the actions being portrayed by images on the front screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: ARHT Media Inc.
    Inventor: John Paul Duffy
  • Publication number: 20180046684
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for expanding a row or column in an existing report, sourced from a relational database, where a column or row, respectively, of an opposite axis has already been expanded. Such a need often arises in reports sourced from a SQL database, and overcomes the storage-draining need to pre-compute all possible arrangements of data from the database prior to displaying the report. In some embodiments, a client can make a request for a multi-axis expansion, and a server can create filters for use in sub queries, one for each level of expansion in an axis of the report opposite to the axis where expansion is requested, the sub queries can be executed, results sets can be combined/formatted to form a new report, and the new report can be returned to the client for stitching into the existing report.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Inventors: Paul Duffy, Amir Kashani
  • Patent number: 9811572
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for expanding a row or column in an existing report, sourced from a relational database, where a column or row, respectively, of an opposite axis has already been expanded. Such a need often arises in reports sourced from a SQL database, and overcomes the storage-draining need to precompute all possible arrangements of data from the database prior to displaying the report. In some embodiments, a client can make a request for a multi-axis expansion, and a server can create filters for use in sub queries, one for each level of expansion in an axis of the report opposite to the axis where expansion is requested, the sub queries can be executed, results sets can be combined/formatted to form a new report, and the new report can be returned to the client for stitching into the existing report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: INSIGHTSOFTWARE.COM INTERNATIONAL
    Inventors: Paul Duffy, Amir Kashani
  • Publication number: 20170293664
    Abstract: This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for expanding a row or column in an existing report, sourced from a relational database, where a column or row, respectively, of an opposite axis has already been expanded. Such a need often arises in reports sourced from a SQL database, and overcomes the storage-draining need to pre-compute all possible arrangements of data from the database prior to displaying the report. In some embodiments, a client can make a request for a multi-axis expansion, and a server can create filters for use in sub queries, one for each level of expansion in an axis of the report opposite to the axis where expansion is requested, the sub queries can be executed, results sets can be combined/formatted to form a new report, and the new report can be returned to the client for stitching into the existing report.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Paul Duffy, Amir Kashani
  • Publication number: 20170278140
    Abstract: A three-dimensional image simulation device for managing a live event comprising an image capturing device for capturing live captured data corresponding to a presenter and generating, in real-time, hologram data based on the live captured data. An output interface for broadcasting the hologram data in real-time to at least one additional location containing an audience, wherein the hologram data is used to create a hologram of the presenter at the at least one additional location based on an apparent parallax effect in a simulated three-dimensional display device, the hologram creating a three-dimensional illusion for the audience regarding actual presence of the presenter at the at least one additional location. Furthermore, an input interface for receiving audience data from the at least one additional location regarding interaction between the hologram and the audience and a display device for displaying images based on audience data to the presenter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2016
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventor: John Paul DUFFY
  • Publication number: 20170277122
    Abstract: A three-dimensional image simulation device for managing a live event comprising an image capturing device for capturing live captured data corresponding to a presenter and generating, in real-time, hologram data based on the live captured data. An output interface for broadcasting the hologram data in real-time to at least one additional location containing an audience, wherein the hologram data is used to create a hologram of the presenter at the at least one additional location based on an apparent parallax effect in a simulated three-dimensional display device, the hologram creating a three-dimensional illusion for the audience regarding actual presence of the presenter at the at least one additional location. Furthermore, an input interface for receiving audience data from the at least one additional location regarding interaction between the hologram and the audience and a display device for displaying images based on audience data to the presenter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventor: John Paul DUFFY
  • Publication number: 20170255022
    Abstract: A method and structure for displaying a simulated 3D image which may be projected utilizing front projectors and two screens, where the front screen may be a rear-projecting screen with a linear polarization film attached and a background screen which may contain a further image which varies in a programmed manner in keeping with the actions being portrayed by images on the front screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Publication date: September 7, 2017
    Inventor: John Paul DUFFY
  • Publication number: 20170224938
    Abstract: An aerosol generator is positioned adjacent to a patient as an attachment to a trocar. The trocar has an entry port for insufflation gas. Aerosol generated by a vibrating element is entrained in the insufflation gas and the mixture is delivered through the trocar. The aerosol may contain a medicament. The trocar may be a conventional trocar. Such trocars are typically used for a camera. The delivery of the aerosolized medicament can occur at the start of the procedure and be delivered in bolus. At the start of the procedure, the peritoneum is being inflated by means of the flow of insufflator gas. This gas flow will help to entrain the aerosolized medicament to the pneumoperitoneum regions. The surgeon can temporarily remove the camera from the trocar port to facilitate insertion and positioning of the aerosoluzing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: Aerosurgical Limited
    Inventors: Patrick Joseph Power, Conor Paul DUFFY
  • Publication number: 20170182279
    Abstract: A supplemental oxygen delivery system is described in which Aerosol is delivered into a housing 10, 20, which sits in the circuit from the supplemental oxygen supply and optional humidifier. The supplemental oxygen passes through this chamber 10, 20 in which the aerosol is located, and collects the aerosol transporting it to a patient via a nasal cannula 3 or a face mask 4. An aerosol generator 9 is mounted to the housing 10, 20 and delivers aerosol into an oxygen stream 13 flowing between an inlet 14 and an outlet 15 of the housing 10. The housing 10 also has a removable plug 16 in the base 17 thereof for draining any liquid that accumulates in the housing 10. There is no disruption of oxygen delivery to patients using nasal cannulas who currently have to use a separate face-mask when receiving nebulized medication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: Stamford Devices Limited
    Inventors: John Sylvester Power, James B. Fink, Conor Paul Duffy, Trevor Stephen Fahy
  • Patent number: 9658462
    Abstract: A method and structure for displaying a simulated 3D image which may be projected utilizing front projectors and two screens, where the front screen may be a rear-projecting screen with a linear polarization film attached and a background screen which may contain a further image which varies in a programmed manner in keeping with the actions being portrayed by images on the front screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: ARHT Media Inc.
    Inventor: John Paul Duffy