Patents by Inventor Peter Miller

Peter Miller 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: 20200222064
    Abstract: A multi-barrel drill guide with an elongated body extending along a longitudinal axis having a proximal end and a distal end, an elongated distal guide tube attached to and extending from the distal end of the elongated body, and a handle extending from the elongated body between the proximal end and the distal end. The elongated body has a first channel extending from the proximal end to the distal end and a second channel extending from the proximal end to the distal end at an angle relative to the first channel. The first channel and the second channel intersect at a convergence area at the distal end. A drill bit is movable in a slidable manner within the second channel, and a driver loaded with a suture anchor is movable in a slidable manner within the first channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Applicant: Conmed Corporation
    Inventors: Robert A. Thibodeau, Matthew C. Summitt, Gregory A. Alfonso, Robert A. Rofman, Erika T. Calvert, Peter Miller
  • Publication number: 20200218709
    Abstract: An update basis for updating digital content in a digital medium environment is described. The digital content is updated by incorporating new digital content components from a service provider system, such as a stock content service, to keep the digital content from seeming stale to client device users. The service provider system controls provision of digital content components according to an update basis described in a component request. In part, component requests ask that the service provider system provide digital content components for incorporation with digital content. Component requests also describe a timing basis with which digital content components are to be provided as updates. By way of example, the timing basis may correspond to a time interval (e.g., daily, weekly, monthly, seasonally, times of day, and so on), receiving user input in relation to the digital content (e.g., a navigation input to a web page), and so forth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicant: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Gavin Stuart Peter Miller, Kevin Gary Smith, Kent Andrew Edmonds, Govind P. Balakrishnan
  • Publication number: 20200173276
    Abstract: A fluid sampling probe may include one or more features that increase the likelihood that a seal will be maintained during a sampling operation, even for sampling operations in unconsolidated formations. This may reduce contamination in formation fluid samples that are obtained during sampling operations. The fluid sampling probe may include a reinforcement ring configured to extend into a geological formation beyond an elastomer portion of the fluid sampling probe, which may support the geological formation and prevent a failure of the formation during sampling operations. The fluid sampling probe may also include a stop sleeve to prevent overextension that could otherwise cause the geological formation to collapse. In addition, the fluid sampling probe may include a relatively wider sealing elastomer that may decrease in height monotonically radially from the center of the fluid sampling probe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Stephen Torgerson, Hadrien Dumont, Francois Robert, Christopher Babin, Peter Miller, Tudor Ioan Palaghita, Sebastian Mastrangelo, Gabriel Morosini
  • Publication number: 20200162236
    Abstract: Embodiments provide traceability of edits to a document, i.e., a verifiable and immutable provenance chain for the document. Systems and methods enable traceability of edits, by encoding, for states of the document, a fingerprint (e.g., a cryptographic hash of the document's contents) and an edit history within a block written to a distributed ledger (e.g., a blockchain). The ledger is maintained via a self-organizing peer-to-peer distributed ledger network. Once added to the ledger, the contents of a block (e.g., the document's fingerprint and edit history) are immutable and the integrity of the edit history encoded in the ledger is secure. The algorithm that generates the fingerprint is sensitive to edits of the document. The non-corruptible fingerprint encoded in the ledger is employable to detect any edits that are not included in the encoded edit history and/or inconsistent with a currently available version of the document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Gavin Stuart Peter Miller, Xuejun Xu, Max Gray Edell, John Bevil Bates, Matthew Keith Albright
  • Publication number: 20200162266
    Abstract: Embodiments provide traceability of edits to a document, i.e., a verifiable and immutable provenance chain for the document. In particular, embodiments facilitate providing analytics services for a distributed ledger. In implementation, a unique identifier associated with a digital document can be received from a remote computing device. Based on the received unique identifier, it is determined that the distributed ledger includes a first transaction corresponding to a first transitioned state of the digital document and a second transaction corresponding to a second transitioned state of the digital document. Each transaction includes the unique identifier, a first fingerprint of the digital document generated at a first time of a transitioned state, and a second fingerprint of the digital document generated at a second time of a previously transitioned state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Gavin Stuart Peter Miller, Xuejun Xu, Max Gray Edell, John Bevil Bates
  • Patent number: 10657118
    Abstract: An update basis for updating digital content in a digital medium environment is described. The digital content is updated by incorporating new digital content components from a service provider system, such as a stock content service, to keep the digital content from seeming stale to client device users. The service provider system controls provision of digital content components according to an update basis described in a component request. In part, component requests ask that the service provider system provide digital content components for incorporation with digital content. Component requests also describe a timing basis with which digital content components are to be provided as updates. By way of example, the timing basis may correspond to a time interval (e.g., daily, weekly, monthly, seasonally, times of day, and so on), receiving user input in relation to the digital content (e.g., a navigation input to a web page), and so forth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Gavin Stuart Peter Miller, Kevin Gary Smith, Kent Andrew Edmonds, Govind P. Balakrishnan
  • Patent number: 10631884
    Abstract: A multi-barrel drill guide with an elongated body extending along a longitudinal axis having a proximal end and a distal end, an elongated distal guide tube attached to and extending from the distal end of the elongated body, and a handle extending from the elongated body between the proximal end and the distal end. The elongated body has a first channel extending from the proximal end to the distal end and a second channel extending from the proximal end to the distal end at an angle relative to the first channel. The first channel and the second channel intersect at a convergence area at the distal end. A drill bit is movable in a slidable manner within the second channel, and a driver loaded with a suture anchor is movable in a slidable manner within the first channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Conmed Corporation
    Inventors: Robert A. Thibodeau, Matthew C. Summitt, Gregory A. Alfonso, Robert A. Rofman, Erika T. Calvert, Peter Miller
  • Patent number: 10626661
    Abstract: A bollard that supports a door with a top bearing, middle bearing and bottom bearing with the middle and bottom bearing offset from the bollard and a rigid structure molded in the door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Inventor: Peter Miller
  • Patent number: 10565472
    Abstract: In embodiments of event image curation, a computing device includes memory that stores a collection of digital images associated with a type of event, such as a digital photo album of digital photos associated with the event, or a video of image frames and the video is associated with the event. A curation application implements a convolutional neural network, which receives the digital images and a designation of the type of event. The convolutional neural network can then determine an importance rating of each digital image within the collection of the digital images based on the type of the event. The importance rating of a digital image is representative of an importance of the digital image to a person in context of the type of the event. The convolutional neural network generates an output of representative digital images from the collection based on the importance rating of each digital image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Zhe Lin, Yufei Wang, Radomir Mech, Xiaohui Shen, Gavin Stuart Peter Miller
  • Patent number: 10560463
    Abstract: Techniques allow DevOps personnel to perform incident management for cloud computing environments in a manner that maintains control over restricted data and the data plane. The DevOps personnel do not have access to restricted data or the ability to modify the cloud computing environment to gain access to restricted data. The incident management techniques include executing automatic operations to resolve an incident and allowing DevOps personnel to execute remote operations without providing the DevOps personnel access. A further incident management technique provides DevOps personnel with just-in-time (JIT) access that is limited to a certain level or type of access and limited in time. Still another technique for incident management is using an escort model, in which an escort session between operating personnel and DevOps personnel is established and connected to the cloud computing environment to allow the DevOps personnel access to the production environment while escorted by the operating personnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Somak Chattopadhyay, Thomas Knudson, Chetan Shankar, Maisem Ali, Lilei Cui, Sandeep Kalarickal, Pradeep Ayyappan Nair, Tom Keane, Siddhartha Pasumarthy, Shont Miller, Lu Jin, Qin Zhou, Maria Black, Elaine Lu, Damien Gallot, Christopher Geisbush, David Sauntry, Peter Miller
  • Patent number: 10552730
    Abstract: An intuitive object-generation experience is provided by employing an autoencoder neural network to reduce the dimensionality of a procedural model. A set of sample objects are generated using the procedural model. In embodiments, the sample objects may be selected according to visual features such that the sample objects are uniformly distributed in visual appearance. Both procedural model parameters and visual features from the sample objects are used to train an autoencoder neural network, which maps a small number of new parameters to the larger number of procedural model parameters of the original procedural model. A user interface may be provided that allows users to generate new objects by adjusting the new parameters of the trained autoencoder neural network, which outputs procedural model parameters. The output procedural model parameters may be provided to the procedural model to generate the new objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: ADOBE INC.
    Inventors: Mehmet Ersin Yumer, Radomir Mech, Paul John Asente, Gavin Stuart Peter Miller
  • Patent number: 10546429
    Abstract: An augmented reality (AR) mirror system is described. In an example, the AR mirror system includes a sensor, a display device, a semi-reflecting surface, a processing system, and computer-readable storage media having instructions stored thereon. The instructions are executable by the processing system to cause display of augmented reality (AR) digital content by the display device to be simultaneously viewable with a reflection of a physical object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Tenell Glen Rhodes, Jr., Jose Ignacio Echevarria Vallespi, Gavin Stuart Peter Miller
  • Patent number: 10521967
    Abstract: Digital content interaction and navigation techniques and systems in virtual and augmented reality are described. In one example, techniques are employed to aid user interaction within a physical environment in which the user is disposed while viewing a virtual or augmented reality environment. In another example, techniques are described to support a world relative field of view and a fixed relative field of view. The world relative field of view is configured to follow motion of the user (e.g., movement of the user's head or mobile phone) within the environment to support navigation to different locations within the environment. The fixed relative field of view is configured to remain fixed during this navigation such that digital content disposed in this field of view remains at that relative location to a user's field of view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Henricus Maria Cabanier, Yuyan Song, Brian David Williams, Cory Lynn Edwards, Byungmoon Kim, Gavin Stuart Peter Miller
  • Patent number: 10467529
    Abstract: In embodiments of convolutional neural network joint training, a computing system memory maintains different data batches of multiple digital image items, where the digital image items of the different data batches have some common features. A convolutional neural network (CNN) receives input of the digital image items of the different data batches, and classifier layers of the CNN are trained to recognize the common features in the digital image items of the different data batches. The recognized common features are input to fully-connected layers of the CNN that distinguish between the recognized common features of the digital image items of the different data batches. A scoring difference is determined between item pairs of the digital image items in a particular one of the different data batches. A piecewise ranking loss algorithm maintains the scoring difference between the item pairs, and the scoring difference is used to train CNN regression functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Zhe Lin, Yufei Wang, Radomir Mech, Xiaohui Shen, Gavin Stuart Peter Miller
  • Publication number: 20190325277
    Abstract: Font replacement based on visual similarity is described. In one or more embodiments, a font descriptor includes multiple font features derived from a visual appearance of a font by a font visual similarity model. The font visual similarity model can be trained using a machine learning system that recognizes similarity between visual appearances of two different fonts. A source computing device embeds a font descriptor in a document, which is transmitted to a destination computing device. The destination compares the embedded font descriptor to font descriptors corresponding to local fonts. Based on distances between the embedded and the local font descriptors, at least one matching font descriptor is determined. The local font corresponding to the matching font descriptor is deemed similar to the original font. The destination computing device controls presentations of the document using the similar local font. Computation of font descriptors can be outsourced to a remote location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Applicant: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Hailin Jin, Zhaowen Wang, Gavin Stuart Peter Miller
  • Publication number: 20190292840
    Abstract: A bollard that supports a door with a top bearing, middle bearing and bottom bearing with the middle and bottom bearing offset from the bollard and a rigid structure molded in the door.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventor: Peter Miller
  • Publication number: 20190292826
    Abstract: A bollard that supports a door with a top bearing, middle bearing and bottom bearing with the middle and bottom bearing offset from the bollard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventor: Peter Miller
  • Patent number: 10403045
    Abstract: A digital medium environment includes at least one computing device (e.g., a user's mobile device) in an environment. Systems and techniques are described for presenting a photorealistic augmented reality experience in real time on the computing device. A lighting representation of the environment is obtained from a partial view of the environment, such as from an image of the environment, and used to render a 3D asset (e.g., graphics of a synthetic object). The 3D asset is inserted into the environment by compositing the rendered 3D asset with the image of the environment accounting for occlusion and based on the lighting representation to form a composite image. Photorealistic processing is applied to the composite image by adding lighting for the rendered 3D asset to a portion of the background of the composite image. Consequently, the inserted graphic is indistinguishable from the real-world scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Stefano Koenig Corazza, Gavin Stuart Peter Miller
  • Patent number: 10389804
    Abstract: Content creation and sharing integration techniques and systems are described. In one or more implementations, techniques are described in which modifiable versions of content (e.g., images) are created and shared via a content sharing service such that image creation functionality used to create the images is preserved to permit continued creation using this functionality. In one or more additional implementations, image creation functionality employed by a creative professional to create content is leveraged to locate similar images from a content sharing service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Zeke Koch, Gavin Stuart Peter Miller, Jonathan W. Brandt, Nathan A. Carr, Radomir Mech, Walter Wei-Tuh Chang, Scott D. Cohen, Hailin Jin
  • Publication number: 20190251749
    Abstract: An augmented reality (AR) mirror system is described. In an example, the AR mirror system includes a sensor, a display device, a semi-reflecting surface, a processing system, and computer-readable storage media having instructions stored thereon. The instructions are executable by the processing system to cause display of augmented reality (AR) digital content by the display device to be simultaneously viewable with a reflection of a physical object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicant: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Tenell Glen Rhodes, JR., Jose Ignacio Echevarria Vallespi, Gavin Stuart Peter Miller