Patents by Inventor Rafael Sagula

Rafael Sagula 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).

  • Patent number: 9071651
    Abstract: An image service uses a uniform resource locator (URL) or other identifier to retrieve dynamic content presentations from the Internet. The image service uses a set of imaging parameters to render HTML files into a static image, sized appropriately, that can be presented on a static display device. A user enters URLs identifying locations of dynamic content within a configuration interface on the image service. The image service then dynamically pulls the selected content from the identified web sites, converts the web pages, or portions thereof, into static digital image files, and downloads the image files for display on a static display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Sunil Gowda, Tracy Ard, Rafael Sagula, Arnold Blinn, Todd Buiten
  • Patent number: 8625907
    Abstract: A database of images may be accessed. A feature set may be computed for each image, respectively. Each feature set includes feature integers quantized from interest points of a corresponding image. An initial set of clusters of the feature sets is found based on min hashes of the feature sets. Given the clusters of feature sets, descriptors for each of the clusters are computed, respectively, by selecting feature integers from among the feature sets in a cluster. The clusters are then refined by comparing at least some of the feature sets with at least some of the cluster descriptors, and based on such comparing adding some of the feature sets to clusters whose feature descriptors have similarity to the feature sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Charles Zitnick, Rafael Sagula, Ashok Chandrashekar
  • Patent number: 8156418
    Abstract: An image service uses a uniform resource locator (URL) or other location identifier to retrieve static images embedded in dynamic content presentations from the Internet. The image service uses a set of imaging parameters to extract one or more static images embedded in the dynamic content presentation that can be consumed by the static display device. URLs to existing web pages are entered into a configuration interface on the image service. The image service parses the web pages, identifies a direct location identifier for the embedded image, and passes the direct location identifier to the static display device for direct retrieval of the embedded image. In another implementation, the image service dynamically pulls the selected embedded images from the identified web sites, and downloads the static image files for display on the static display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Sunil Gowda, Tracy Ard, Rafael Sagula, Arnold Blinn, Todd Buiten
  • Publication number: 20110305399
    Abstract: A database of images may be accessed. A feature set may be computed for each image, respectively. Each feature set includes feature integers quantized from interest points of a corresponding image. An initial set of clusters of the feature sets is found based on min hashes of the feature sets. Given the clusters of feature sets, descriptors for each of the clusters are computed, respectively, by selecting feature integers from among the feature sets in a cluster. The clusters are then refined by comparing at least some of the feature sets with at least some of the cluster descriptors, and based on such comparing adding some of the feature sets to clusters whose feature descriptors have similarity to the feature sets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2010
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Charles Zitnick, Rafael Sagula, Ashok Chandrashekar
  • Publication number: 20090307603
    Abstract: An image service uses a uniform resource locator (URL) or other identifier to retrieve dynamic content presentations from the Internet. The image service uses a set of imaging parameters to render HTML files into a static image, sized appropriately, that can be presented on a static display device. A user enters URLs identifying locations of dynamic content within a configuration interface on the image service. The image service then dynamically pulls the selected content from the identified web sites, converts the web pages, or portions thereof, into static digital image files, and downloads the image files for display on a static display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2008
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sunil Gowda, Tracy Ard, Rafael Sagula, Arnold Blinn, Todd Buiten
  • Publication number: 20090307571
    Abstract: An image service uses a uniform resource locator (URL) or other location identifier to retrieve static images embedded in dynamic content presentations from the Internet. The image service uses a set of imaging parameters to extract one or more static images embedded in the dynamic content presentation that can be consumed by the static display device. URLs to existing web pages are entered into a configuration interface on the image service. The image service parses the web pages, identifies a direct location identifier for the embedded image, and passes the direct location identifier to the static display device for direct retrieval of the embedded image. In another implementation, the image service dynamically pulls the selected embedded images from the identified web sites, and downloads the static image files for display on the static display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2008
    Publication date: December 10, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sunil Gowda, Tracy Ard, Rafael Sagula, Arnold Blinn, Todd Buiten