Patents by Inventor Ramon Antoine Wiro Clout
Ramon Antoine Wiro Clout 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: 20150281789Abstract: A system (1) comprises a media receiver (10) for receiving a broadcast signal comprising media data, a rendering device (20) for providing an audible and/or visual output from the media data, and a user equipment (30) capable of exchanging messages (M) via an internet service (40), the user equipment (30) having an media item comment option for submitting a message (MSG) about a media item. The user equipment (30) is arranged for issuing a data request signal (DRQ) to the media receiver if the user selects the media item comment option and the media receiver is arranged for providing extracted representative information (RINF) about a portion of the media item that is reproduced when or shortly before the request is received, and for providing said representative information (RINF) to the user equipment (30). The user equipment (30) is capable of including said representative information in said message (MSG) about a media item.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2013Publication date: October 1, 2015Inventors: Mauro Barbieri, Andras Kalmar, Adolf Proidl, Johannes Henricus Maria Korst, Serverius Petrus Paulus Pronk, Ramon Antoine Wiro Clout
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Publication number: 20150216008Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for a lighting unit (600) that may adaptably achieve a plurality of lighting effects. A plurality of LEDs (641) producing a light output having at least one adaptable light output characteristic may be provided and controlled by a controller (650) electrically coupled to the plurality of LEDs (641). The controller may control the at least one adaptable light output characteristic in accordance with received lighting configuration data (651) that is specific to a particular lighting implementation (606).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 4, 2013Publication date: July 30, 2015Inventors: Bartel Marinus Van De Sluis, Dirk Valentinus Rene Engelen, Tim Dekker, Dzmitry Viktorovich Aliakseyeu, Ramon Antoine Wiro Clout
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Publication number: 20150161137Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for storing, suggesting, and/or utilizing lighting settings. A database of relevant lighting settings for recommendation to lighting users may be managed and at least some of the relevant lighting settings may each be associated with a weighting corresponding to an experience level of a user that created the lighting setting. Relevant lighting settings for a lighting system may also be identified and a creator experience level, lighting systems contextual data, and/or reconstructability of the lighting settings may be used in identifying and/or sorting the relevant lighting settings.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2013Publication date: June 11, 2015Applicant: kONINKLIKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Tatiana Aleksandrovna Lashina, Paul Anthony Shrubsole, Dirk Valentinus Rene Engelen, Dzmitry Viktorovich Aliakseyeu, Bartel Marinus Van De Sluis, Ramon Antoine Wiro Clout
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Publication number: 20150134476Abstract: A device and a method for automatic generation of a recommendation for an item p to a user u. The device is at least indirectly connected to an item database containing a user profile database and a user interrelation database. A standard recommender engine accesses the item database and user profile database to calculate a score s(p,u) in a [0,1] interval indicating a “like” degree of an item p for user u based on a user profile of user u. The device further has a content discovery recommender to access the user interrelation database and to find at least users v that have a direct connection to user u to determine a fraction of the users v that know an item p and to generate a recommendation based on the score s(p,u) of item p.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2013Publication date: May 14, 2015Applicant: FUNKE DIGITAL TV GUIDE GMBHInventors: Mauro Barbieri, Jan Korst, Serverius Petrus Paulus Pronk, Ramon Antoine Wiro Clout
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Publication number: 20140321113Abstract: A lighting element (100), a lighting system and a luminaire are provided. The lighting element (100) is used for obtaining a skylight appearance and comprises a white light emitting means (104) for emitting white light, a blue light emitting means 106 for emitting blue light and a Fresnel lens (102). The Fresnel lens (102) is arranged to receive light from the white light emitting means (104) and from the blue light emitting means (106). The white light emitting means (104) is arranged in a first relative position with respect to the Fresnel lens (102) to collimate at least a part of the light emitted by the white light emitting means (104) to obtain a collimated directed light beam in a specific direction. The blue light emitting means (106) is arranged in a second relative position with respect to the Fresnel lens (102) to obtain a blue light emission at least outside the collimated directed light beam.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2012Publication date: October 30, 2014Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Gabriel-Eugen Onac, Ramon Antoine Wiro Clout, Bart Andre Salters
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Publication number: 20140223488Abstract: A recommender engine for recommending content items to a user comprises a profile generation unit having a pre-profile input unit, which is configured to receive pre-profile data comprising pre-profile text data suitable for identifying entities of interest to a given user, and having a pre-profile analysis unit, the entities of interest and to generate an initial user profile data set for the given user from the extracted identification data; a query generation unit, to generate at least two queries semantically different from each other to be directed to at least one content repository; a content retrieval unit, to issue the generated queries to the content repository and to receive in response to the queries, content-related response data comprising respective hit lists and an interleaver unit to generate from the different hit lists a single recommendation list.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2012Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: AXEL SPRINGER DIGITAL TV GUIDE GMBHInventors: Jan Korst, Mauro Barbieri, Ramon Antoine Wiro Clout, Serverius Petrus Paulus Pronk
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Patent number: 8788098Abstract: The invention concerns a lighting device for creating dynamic atmospheres, the lighting device comprising: a light source adapted to operate in a plurality of color states, the light source emitting differing colors for each color state; a controller for controlling the color state of the light source; the controller comprising a random generator to provide a transition between a previous and a subsequent state, wherein the controller is adapted to provide the transition based on probabilistic output provided by the random generator implementing a stochastic model, the probabilistic output depending on the previous color state. In addition, a method is provided for generating the stochastic model; and a method for creating dynamic atmospheres based on probabilistic output provided by the stochastic model.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2009Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.VInventors: Dragan Sekulovski, Ramon Antoine Wiro Clout, Bram Kater, Therese Jacoba Maria Overbeek
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Patent number: 8004209Abstract: The invention relates to a method of controlling a temporal variation of light emitted by an illumination system. The light emitted by the illumination system varies from light having a start color point (14) to light having a target color point (12). The start and target color point are defined in a first color space (XYZ, RGBvid, RGBill), which is perceptually non-uniform. The method according to the invention converts the start and target color point from the first color space to a second color space (Lab, Lch), which is more uniform to the human visual system than the first color space. The method further comprises a step of generating an intermediate color point (34, I1, I2) located on a transition-path (p, p?) within the second color space, an intermediate distance (d) between the start color point in the second color space and the intermediate color point in the second color space not being larger than a threshold distance (26).Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2007Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventors: Dragan Sekulovski, Ramon Antoine Wiro Clout
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Publication number: 20110075924Abstract: To adjust colors in an input image (II) to colors of a reference image (RI), matching reference points (RP) are provided in the input image (II) and the reference image (RI), dominant colors of the matching reference points (RP) are determined (10, 20), and the colors in the input image (II) are transformed (30, 40) based on the dominant colors of the matching reference C points to obtain an output image (OI).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2009Publication date: March 31, 2011Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.Inventors: Prarthana Shrestha, Dragan Sekulovski, Mauro Barbieri, Johannes Weda, Ramon Antoine Wiro Clout
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Publication number: 20110057582Abstract: The invention concerns a lighting device for creating dynamic atmospheres, the lighting device comprising: a light source adapted to operate in a plurality of color states, the light source emitting differing colors for each color state; a controller for controlling the color state of the light source; the controller comprising a random generator to provide a transition between a previous and a subsequent state, wherein the controller is adapted to provide the transition based on probabilistic output provided by the random generator implementing a stochastic model, the probabilistic output depending on the previous color state. In addition, a method is provided for generating the stochastic model; and a method for creating dynamic atmospheres based on probabilistic output provided by the stochastic model.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2009Publication date: March 10, 2011Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.Inventors: Dragan Sekulovski, Ramon Antoine Wiro Clout, Bram Kater, Therese Jacoba Maria Overbeek
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Patent number: 7834678Abstract: The present invention relates to controlling switches in a series connection of electrical devices, in particular to a circuit arrangement, and method of operating same, in which a transistor switch (44, 54) is used to control operation of the devices (12, 14). Because the transistor switches need a gate-source voltage difference, but on the other hand are connected with their source (s) and drain (d) to the main circuit branch, this voltage difference is built up by providing a control current (Ii, I2) over e.g. a resistor (42, 52). This control current (Ii, I2) enters the main current (I), which would influence the operation of the devices, e.g. LEDs (12, 14). In order to correct this, the control current (I2) is corrected for the values of one or more upstream control currents (I2), e.g. through adapting the pulse width in pulse width modulation.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2006Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventors: Patrick Catharina Johannes Gerardus Niessen, Ramon Antoine Wiro Clout
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Publication number: 20100177247Abstract: A system for facilitating accompanying an image or video rendering with a concurrent controlled ambient lighting, comprises a color selector (302) for selecting a color of the controlled ambient lighting in dependence on scene lighting information associated with the image or with at least one image of the video. An image analyzer (304) is provided for computing an illuminant parameter indicative of the scene lighting based on the image or video, wherein the color selector is arranged for selecting the color in dependence on the illuminant parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2007Publication date: July 15, 2010Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.Inventors: Dragan Sekulovski, Ramon Antoine Wiro Clout, Mauro Barbieri
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Publication number: 20100043625Abstract: A musical composition system, includes a plurality of tokens (5-7) of visibly distinct types, each representing aspects of at least a fragment of a musical composition, wherein the tokens are configured for placement by at least one user in a spatial configuration; a system for determining respective locations and types of an assembly of tokens (5-7) placed in a spatial configuration by the user(s); a system (13-16;44-46) for translating a spatial ordering of the tokens (5-7) in the spatial configuration into a temporal ordering; a system (13,18,40;44-46) for translating the types of the tokens (5-7) into respective aspects of at least a fragment of a musical composition; and a system (13,18-20;44-46) for generating at least one signal representing a synthesis of the respective aspects of fragments of a musical composition in accordance with the temporal ordering, the signals being suitable for audible reproduction.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2007Publication date: February 25, 2010Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.Inventors: Jurjen Lippold Van Geenen, Ramon Antoine Wiro Clout, Fabio Vignoli
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Publication number: 20100026206Abstract: The invention relates to a method of controlling a temporal variation of light emitted by an illumination system. The light emitted by the illumination system varies from light having a start color point (14) to light having a target color point (12). The start and target color point are defined in a first color space (XYZ, RGBvid, RGBill), which is perceptually non-uniform. The method according to the invention converts the start and target color point from the first color space to a second color space (Lab, Lch), which is more uniform to the human visual system than the first color space. The method further comprises a step of generating an intermediate color point (34, I1, , I2) located on a transition-path (p, p?) within the second color space, an intermediate distance (d) between the start color point in the second color space and the intermediate color point in the second color space not being larger than a threshold distance (26).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2007Publication date: February 4, 2010Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.Inventors: Dragan Sekulovski, Ramon Antoine Wiro Clout
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Publication number: 20080265981Abstract: The present invention relates to controlling switches in a series connection of electrical devices, in particular to a circuit arrangement, and method of operating same, in which a transistor switch (44, 54) is used to control operation of the devices (12, 14). Because the transistor switches need a gate-source voltage difference, but on the other hand are connected with their source (s) and drain (d) to the main circuit branch, this voltage difference is built up by providing a control current (Ii, I2) over e.g. a resistor (42, 52). This control current (Ii, I2) enters the main current (I), which would influence the operation of the devices, e.g. LEDs (12, 14). In order to correct this, the control current (I2) is corrected for the values of one or more upstream control currents (I2), e.g. through adapting the pulse width in pulse width modulation.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2006Publication date: October 30, 2008Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS, N.V.Inventors: Patrick Catharina Johannes Gerardus Niessen, Ramon Antoine Wiro Clout
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Publication number: 20080244634Abstract: A user profiling system that receives user command/control selections related to content currently being provided to the user. A processor acts on the command/control selections and also determines whether the command/control selections are volume related command/control selections. In a case where the command/control selections are volume related, the processor utilizes these volume related command/control selections as an input to a user profile of the user profiling system. The user profile may be utilized for providing recommendations of content to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2005Publication date: October 2, 2008Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONIC N.V.Inventors: Markus Gerardus Leonardus Maria Van Doorn, Ramon Antoine Wiro Clout