Patents by Inventor Robert A. Campbell

Robert A. Campbell 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: 9353557
    Abstract: A door handle arrangement for vehicles including an electrically insulating cover having an outer actuating surface for a user characterized by at least one metal actuating electrode disposed on the inner side of the cover that is on the side of the cover facing away from the actuating surface. The cover is elastically deformable by an actuation in the area of the actuating surface. The arrangement includes at least one sensor electrode that is disposed at a distance from the actuating element and opposite the inner side of the cover, wherein the sensor electrode lies opposite the actuating electrode at least in certain sections so that the distance between actuating electrode and sensor electrode is variable during deformation of the cover in the region of the actuating surface. The arrangement also includes a control and evaluation device which is coupled at least to the sensor electrode to detect a capacitance between sensor electrode and actuating electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Huf North America Automotive Parts Manufacturing Corp.
    Inventors: James Sanborn, Robert Campbell
  • Publication number: 20160146377
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an apparatus, system and method for hanging one or more pipes or conduits from a single threaded rod. The Pipe/Conduit Hanging Device comprises an unthreaded rod coupling, with one or more pipe clamps distending therefrom, which may be slidably adjusted along a threaded rod and held in place by a pair of nuts. The Pipe/Conduit Hanging Device may be used individually or in a system comprising multiple Pipe/Conduit Hanging Devices working in conjunction. The most preferred embodiment comprises a split-ring type clamp distending from an unthreaded rod coupling with a sliding cavity that is marginally larger in diameter than the diameter of a threaded rod, so that a threaded rod may easily slide through the sliding cavity while the device is being installed. Further, a method of using a ā€œCā€ clamp to allow a Pipe/Conduit Hanging Device to span a gap between two threaded rods is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventors: Curtis Robert Campbell, Suzanna Christina Ramos
  • Publication number: 20160117056
    Abstract: In some examples, a projector is controlled to project an image content onto a projection surface in a region defining a display area. Captured images are received that are captured by at least one optical sensor of the projected image content on the projection surface. In the captured images, user touches of a plurality of designated locations of the projected image content on the projection surface are detected. A position of an interaction area based on the detected user touches is determined, and, based on the determined position of the interaction area, it is determined whether the display area and the interaction area coincide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: Curt N. Van Lydegraf, Robert Campbell
  • Publication number: 20160109956
    Abstract: A computing device can include a first enclosure and a display enclosure. A tag can be on the first enclosure. A sensor on the display enclosure can detect the tag location and generate sensor data. A controller can determine from the sensor data the relative position between the display enclosure and the first enclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: KARL FREDRIK HAMBERGER, ROBERT CAMPBELL
  • Patent number: 9291430
    Abstract: An accessory device for attachment to a firearm may include a device body having a light source and a biasing member extending from the device body through an aperture of a rail clip. The biasing member has a distal end shaped for insertion into a firearm slot, and the device body has an anti-rotation feature that prevents the body from rotating about the biasing member with respect to the rail clip when the distal end is inserted in the firearm slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: SPECIALIZED TACTICAL SYSTEMS
    Inventor: Robert Campbell Clark
  • Publication number: 20160078252
    Abstract: Encryption of data within a memory 6 is provided by key generation circuitry 12 which serves to generate a key as a function of the address within the memory 6 being accessed and then encryption circuitry 14 or decryption circuitry 16 which serve respectively to encrypt or decrypt the data as a function of the key that has been generated based upon the address. The encryption and the decryption may be performed using a bitwise XOR operation. The key generation circuitry may have the form of physically unclonable function circuitry, which varies from instance to instance of implementation and that operates to generate the same key for the same address upon both write and read operations within the same instance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Vikas CHANDRA, Robert Campbell AITKEN
  • Patent number: 9274547
    Abstract: A display system can include a panel 110. The panel 110 can include a perimeter 117 and can display images on a front side. A bezel 170 can extend from the perimeter of the panel. The display system can include a designated area 140 on the bezel. A three dimensional optical sensor 115 can generate information to determine if an object is in contact with the designated area on the bezel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Compamy, L.P.
    Inventors: John P. McCarthy, Bradley Neal Suggs, Robert Campbell
  • Patent number: 9261913
    Abstract: A system or method including a display and sensor to detect touches of the display. The display can display an image of a keyboard. The image of the keyboard can be shaped to the locations of the touches of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Gaurang Mittal, Robert Campbell, Glenn A. Wong, Mark C. Solomon, Arthur Chao-Chung Wu
  • Publication number: 20160041167
    Abstract: Some embodiments provided herein relate to combined assays. In some embodiments, an assay for identifying influenza type A or influenza type B is combined with an assay for determining the sensitivity of an influenza neuraminidase to an antiviral drug.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Robert Campbell, Kevin G. Dolan, Eric Fallows, Randall A. Hoke, Ross Jacobson, J. Bruce Pinter, Glenn P. Vonk, Rajashaker Kache, Upma Gulati, Herman Himel, Rosemary B. Evans-Storms
  • Patent number: 9250745
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to an input relative to an image projected onto a projection surface. In one embodiment, a processor may determine the characteristics of an input relative to an image projected onto a projection surface. The input characteristics may be determined based on information from an optical sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Curt N. Van Lydegraf, Robert Campbell
  • Publication number: 20150371718
    Abstract: A data processing apparatus has at least one memory and processing circuitry. A memory built-in self-test (MBIST) interface receives a MBIST request indicating that a test procedure is to be performed for testing at least one target memory location. Control circuitry detects the MBIST request and reserves for testing at least one reserved memory location including the target memory location. During the test procedure, the memory continues servicing memory transactions issued by the processing circuitry that target a memory location other than the reserved location reserved by the control circuitry. The processing circuitry is stalled if it attempts to access a reserved memory location. Testing consists of short bursts of transactions which occur infrequently. In this way, MBIST testing may continue while the processor is operation in the field with reduced performance impact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Alan Jeremy BECKER, Chiloda Ashan Senerath PATHIRANE, Robert Campbell AITKEN
  • Publication number: 20150363268
    Abstract: An apparatus has a plurality of storage units. A parity generator is configured to generate a parity value in dependence on the respective values stored in the plurality of storage units. The parity generator is configured such that determination of the parity value is independent of a read access to the data stored the plurality of storage units. A detector is configured to detect a change in value of the parity value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventors: Vikas CHANDRA, Robert Campbell Aitken
  • Publication number: 20150363267
    Abstract: A data storage apparatus is provided which has a plurality of data storage units, each respective data storage unit configured to store a respective data bit of a data word. Stored data value parity generation circuitry is configured to generate a parity bit for the data word in dependence on the data bits of the data word stored in the plurality of data storage units. The stored data value parity generation circuitry is configured such that switching within the stored data value parity generation circuitry does not occur when the data word is read out from the plurality of data storage units. Transition detection circuitry is configured to detect a change in value of the parity bit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventors: Vikas CHANDRA, Robert Campbell AITKEN
  • Patent number: 9213410
    Abstract: A method for accessing a file on a computing machine including configuring a sensor to detect an object and a user interacting with the object, associating the object with at least one file on the computing machine, and configuring a display device to render an associated file being accessed in response to the user interacting with the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company L.P.
    Inventors: Robert Campbell, Bradley Suggs, John P. McCarthy
  • Patent number: D739042
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Royal Group, Inc.
    Inventors: David Robert Campbell, Nina Sterlin, Phil Weber
  • Patent number: D739043
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Royal Group, Inc.
    Inventors: David Robert Campbell, Nina Sterlin, Phil Weber
  • Patent number: D739044
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Royal Group, Inc.
    Inventors: David Robert Campbell, Nina Sterlin, Phil Weber
  • Patent number: D739045
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Royal Group, Inc.
    Inventors: David Robert Campbell, Nina Sterlin, Phil Weber
  • Patent number: D739046
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: Royal Group, Inc.
    Inventors: David Robert Campbell, Nina Sterlin, Phil Weber
  • Patent number: D739562
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Royal Group, Inc.
    Inventors: David Robert Campbell, Nina Sterlin, Phil Weber