Patents by Inventor Richard Simons

Richard Simons 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: 20100248176
    Abstract: A method for controlling a boiler includes firing a boiler, and monitoring a temperature deviation between a boiler temperature and a heating temperature profile over time. If the temperature deviation exceeds an allowable deviation, the boiler is shut off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Peter Anderson, Richard Simons, Henry Troost, Emil Costea
  • Patent number: 7773791
    Abstract: A method of analyzing a lesion in a medical digital image using at least one point contained within a lesion to be analyzed includes propagating a wave-front surface from the point(s) for a plurality of steps; partitioning the wave-front surface into a plurality of wave-front parts wherein each wave-front part is associated with a different portion of the wave-front surface corresponding to a previous propagation step; and analyzing at least one feature associated with each wave-front part to classify anatomical structures associated with the lesion and normal anatomy within the medical digital image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Carestream Health, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard A. Simon, Edward B. Gindele, Lawrence A. Ray
  • Publication number: 20100188262
    Abstract: A system for measuring energy consumption comprises a plurality of devices (DEi) of which at least a subset comprises a communication unit (CUi) for supplying operating status information (OSi) indicating an actual operating status with respect to an actual energy consumption of the associated one of the plurality of devices (DEi). A meter (EM) measures a total energy consumption (TEC) of the plurality of devices (DEi). A controller (CO) calculates an individual energy consumption (IEC) of a particular one of the plurality of devices (DEi) from a change of the total energy consumption (TEC) occurring at a change of the operating status of the particular one of the plurality of devices (DEi).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
    Inventors: Steffen Reymann, Paul Richard Simons, David George Clark
  • Patent number: 7750219
    Abstract: A bar chime apparatus has a mantle with one or more pivot mechanisms that connect two or more bar segments. The one or more pivot mechanisms have two or more slots. The two or more bar segments can be folded and secured in the two or more slots. Two or more bar chimes are suspended from the mantle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Kaman Music Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Simons, Raymond Enhoffer, Andrze J. Krol
  • Publication number: 20100080147
    Abstract: A method includes retrieving a first data set from a switch within a network, the first data set including a set of switch records. Among the switch records included in the first data set is a first switch record associated with and including a field identifying a first trunk group from a set of trunk groups included within the switch. A second data set is retrieved from a configuration management system configured to facilitate an operation associated with the network. The second data set includes a plurality of configuration records, which includes a first configuration record associated with and including a field identifying the first trunk group. When the field included in the first configuration record differs from the field included in the first switch record a report is produced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2009
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Inventors: Paritosh Bajpay, Robert Best, Hossein Eslambolchi, Richard Glozzy, John McCanuel, Richard Simon
  • Publication number: 20100005064
    Abstract: A link generator generates links to servable data to allow the servable content of a network server to be accessed using the links. Encoded links in a form suitable for an indexing agent are generated and used to access dynamically generated data in a database of the network server and to analyze same to determine query data for retrieving servable data from the database. A proxy server receives a request generated in response to selecting one of the encoded links, translates the request, and forwards it to the network server to access corresponding dynamically generated data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Applicant: YOURAMIGO LIMITED
    Inventors: Jeremy Darren Krieg, Jonathan James Schutz, Richard Simon Flay
  • Publication number: 20100005063
    Abstract: A link generator generates links to servable data to allow the servable content of a network server to be accessed using the links. Encoded links in a form suitable for an indexing agent are generated and used to access dynamically generated data in a database of the network server and to analyze same to determine query data for retrieving servable data from the database. A proxy server receives a request generated in response to selecting one of the encoded links, translates the request, and forwards it to the network server to access corresponding dynamically generated data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Applicant: YOURAMIGO LIMITED
    Inventors: Jeremy Darren Krieg, Jonathan James Schutz, Richard Simon Flay
  • Patent number: 7636485
    Abstract: A batch processing method for enhancing an appearance of a face located in a digital image, where the image is one of a large number of images that are being processed through a batch process, comprises the steps of: (a) providing a script file that identifies one or more original digital images that have been selected for enhancement, wherein the script file includes an instruction for the location of each original digital image; (b) using the instructions in the script file, acquiring an original digital image containing one or more faces; (c) detecting a location of facial feature points in the one or more faces, said facial feature points including points identifying salient features including one or more of skin, eyes, eyebrows, nose, mouth, and hair; (d) using the location of the facial feature points to segment the face into different regions, said different regions including one or more of skin, eyes, eyebrows, nose, mouth, neck and hair regions; (e) determining one or more facially relevant character
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2009
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Richard A. Simon, Tomasz Matraszek
  • Patent number: 7634490
    Abstract: A link generator generates links to servable data to allow the servable content of a network server to be accessed using the links. Encoded links in a form suitable for an indexing agent are generated and used to access dynamically generated data in a database of the network server and to analyze same to determine query data for retrieving servable data from the database. A proxy server receives a request generated in response to selecting one of the encoded links, translates the request, and forwards it to the network server to access corresponding dynamically generated data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: YourAmigo Limited
    Inventors: Jeremy Darren Krieg, Jonathan James Schutz, Richard Simon Flay
  • Patent number: 7630325
    Abstract: A method includes retrieving a first data set from a switch within a network, the first data set including a set of switch records. Among the switch records included in the first data set is a first switch record associated with and including a field identifying a first trunk group from a set of trunk groups included within the switch. A second data set is retrieved from a configuration management system configured to facilitate an operation associated with the network. The second data set includes a plurality of configuration records, which includes a first configuration record associated with and including a field identifying the first trunk group. When the field included in the first configuration record differs from the field included in the first switch record a report is produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: AT&T Corp.
    Inventors: Paritosh Bajpay, Robert Best, Hossein Eslambolchi, Richard Glozzy, John McCanuel, Richard Simon
  • Patent number: 7625889
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a series of substituted bis aryl and heteroaryl compounds of formula (I): Wherein X, Y, Z, A, B, D, Ar, R1 and R2 are as defined herein. The compounds of this invention are selective 5HT2A antagonists, and are therefore, useful in treating a variety of diseases including but not limited to a wide variety of sleep disorders as disclosed and claimed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2009
    Assignee: Aventis Pharmaceuticals Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Robert Eastwood, Hazel Hunt, David Mark Fink, Helen Katherine Smith, Richard Simon Todd
  • Publication number: 20090279754
    Abstract: A method of bounding an anatomical object of interest in a 3-dimensional volume image includes displaying an image of at least a portion of the object, selecting a plurality of points in the displayed image, at least a first and second point of the plurality of points spanning the object, forming a non-rectilinear surface bounding the plurality of points, identifying a seed point within the surface and extracting a plurality of statistical values corresponding to image voxels disposed proximate the seed point, and classifying image voxels within the surface into a first class and a second class based on the plurality of statistical values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Inventors: Edward B. Gindele, Lawrence A. Ray, Richard A. Simon
  • Publication number: 20090279755
    Abstract: A method of collecting information regarding an anatomical object of interest includes displaying an image characterized by a first region and a second region, wherein the first and second regions are mutually exclusive and the object is displayed within the second region, selecting first and second points spanning the object in the displayed image, at least one of the points being within the first region, and extracting a plurality of statistical values from image voxels, lying on a line segment between the first and second points, that correspond to the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Inventors: Edward B. Gindele, Lawrence A. Ray, Richard A. Simon
  • Publication number: 20090279756
    Abstract: A digital image editing method includes receiving a three-dimensional volume image of an anatomical object of interest, wherein the volume image is characterized by first and second mutually exclusive segmentation classes. The method also includes deriving a two-dimensional slice image from the volume image, selecting a single point on the slice image within the second segmentation class, and defining a plane in response to the selection of the single point, the plane dividing the second segmentation class into a target portion corresponding to the object and a remainder portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Publication date: November 12, 2009
    Inventors: Edward B. Gindele, Lawrence A. Ray, Richard A. Simon
  • Patent number: 7602949
    Abstract: A batch processing method for enhancing an appearance of a face located in a digital image, where the image is one of a large number of images that are being processed through a batch process, comprises the steps of: (a) providing a script file that identifies one or more original digital images that have been selected for enhancement, wherein the script file includes an instruction for the location of each original digital image; (b) using the instructions in the script file, acquiring an original digital image containing one or more faces; (c) detecting a location of facial feature points in the one or more faces, said facial feature points including points identifying salient features including one or more of skin, eyes, eyebrows, nose, mouth, and hair; (d) using the location of the facial feature points to segment the face into different regions, said different regions including one or more of skin, eyes, eyebrows, nose, mouth, neck and hair regions; (e) determining one or more facially relevant character
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Richard A. Simon, Tomasz Matraszek
  • Publication number: 20090227762
    Abstract: The present invention provides a catalyst for use in the preparation of a coloured polymeric material, said catalyst comprising a coloured organometallic compound. Preferably, said catalyst comprises a metal such as aluminium and at least one organic chromophore, such as an azo chromophore, said chromophore being either directly bonded to said metal, or indirectly bonded to said metal through a ligand. The invention also envisages a method for the preparation of a coloured polymer, the method comprising performing a polymerisation reaction in the presence of such a catalyst. The method is particularly applicable to the preparation of poly(lactic acid), and offers significant benefits over the processes of the prior art, both economically and environmentally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2006
    Publication date: September 10, 2009
    Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
    Inventors: Richard Simon Blackburn, Christopher Mark Rayner, Christopher Martin Pask, Patrick Columba McGowan
  • Publication number: 20090185731
    Abstract: A method and a system are disclosed for labeling an anatomical point associated with a lesion in an organ such as a lung. The method includes: a segmentation of a vessel tree anatomical structure starting from an autonomously determined initial image point; labeling the vessel segments of the vessel tree segmentation with segment labels based on a priori anatomical knowledge, thereby creating an individualized anatomical model; receiving a user-specified image point having a location from a user and locating a nearby vessel structure; tracking along the vessel structure in a direction towards a root of a parent vessel tree until a prior labeled vessel segment is encountered in the anatomical model, and assigning the label of the encountered prior labeled vessel segment from the anatomical model as an anatomical location label of the user-specified image point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2008
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Inventors: Lawrence A. Ray, Richard A. Simon, Henry Nicponski, Edward B. Gindele
  • Publication number: 20090178536
    Abstract: A bar chime apparatus has a mantle with one or more pivot mechanisms that connect two or more bar segments. The one or more pivot mechanisms have two or more slots. The two or more bar segments can be folded and secured in the two or more slots. Two or more bar chimes are suspended from the mantle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2008
    Publication date: July 16, 2009
    Inventors: Richard Simons, Raymond Enhoffer, Andrzej Krol
  • Publication number: 20090129673
    Abstract: A method of image segmentation includes receiving a set of voxels, segmenting the set of voxels into a foreground group and a background group, and classifying voxels of the foreground group as either lesion voxels or normal anatomy voxels. The method also includes blocking the normal anatomy voxels and performing a second segmentation on voxels of the background group and the lesion voxels, the second segmentation forming a stage two foreground group comprising the lesion voxels and a portion of the voxels of the background group. The method further includes classifying voxels of the stage two foreground group as either stage two lesion voxels or stage two normal anatomy voxels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2007
    Publication date: May 21, 2009
    Inventors: Richard A. Simon, Edward B. Gindele, Lawrence A. Ray
  • Patent number: 7503653
    Abstract: A method for comparing image portions of at least two images, comprising the steps of: displaying a first digital image on a display; determining gaze data of a user viewing the first digital image displayed on the display; determining the portion of the first digital image being viewed by the user corresponding to the determined gaze data to identify a first gaze region; accessing a second digital image; determining, in the second digital image, a second region corresponding to the first gaze region; and displaying the first and second gaze regions on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2009
    Assignee: Carestream Health, Inc.
    Inventors: Serguei Endrikhovski, Richard A. Simon, Elena A. Fedorovskaya