Patents by Inventor Robert A. Noel

Robert A. Noel 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: 11970536
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a replication deficient oncolytic viral vector or replication capable group B oncolytic adenovirus selected from the group consisting of Ad11 and enadenotucirev, wherein the virus encodes an antibody or a binding fragment thereof for expression on the surface of a cancer cell, wherein said antibody or binding fragment is specific to a CD3 protein of a T-cell receptor complex (TCR), wherein the virus does not encode a B7 protein or an active fragment thereof, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same, and use of any one of the same in treatment, particularly in the treatment of cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: AKAMIS BIO LIMITED
    Inventors: Brian Robert Champion, Alice Claire Noel Brown
  • Publication number: 20240109369
    Abstract: A tire having a tread comprising a tread rubber composition comprising from 10 phr to 100 phr of styrene butadiene rubber comprising monomers selected from one or more of recycled and bio-based monomers, from 0 phr to 90 phr of elastomers selected from one or more of natural rubber, polybutadiene rubber comprising monomers selected from one or more of recycled and bio-based monomers, and synthetic polyisoprene comprising monomers selected from one or more of recycled and bio-based monomers, and from 40 phr to 250 phr of a filler comprising one or more of recycled or bio-based silica, and recycled or bio-based carbon black, from 1 phr to 90 phr of hydrocarbon resin which is one or more of i) based on recycled monomers, bio-based monomers or a combination thereof, and ii) a plant resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Marine Sophie Francoise Wassen, Jean-Noel Marsat, Karmena Izabela Anyfantaki, Luisa Fernanda Munoz Mejia, Bartosz Zielinski, Robert Vincent Dennis-Pelcher, Justin Yinket Che
  • Publication number: 20240104897
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for video stream augmentation using a deep learning device are described. A machine learning device of a vehicle may augment a video stream received from cameras of the vehicle and may output the augmented video stream to a display component of the vehicle. For example, a camera of the vehicle may record a video stream of and a sensor of the vehicle may detect information about an environment associated with the vehicle. The camera and sensor may transmit the video stream and information, respectively, to the machine learning device, which may process and modify the video stream based on parameters of the video stream and/or the information. The machine learning device may transmit the modified video streams to the display component, and the display component may display aspects of the modified video stream on a display of the vehicle, such as a rearview mirror.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Poorna Kale, Saideep Tiku, Robert Noel Bielby
  • Patent number: 11938159
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a group B adenovirus comprising a sequence of formula (I): 5?ITR-B1-BA-B2-BX-BB-BY-B3-3?ITR wherein: B1 is bond or comprises: E1A, E1B or E1A-E1B; BA comprises-E2B-L1-L2-L3-E2A-L4; B2 is a bond or comprises: E3; BX is a bond or a DNA sequence comprising: a restriction site, one or more transgenes or both; BB comprises L5; BY is a bond or a DNA sequence comprising: a restriction site, one or more transgenes or both; B3 is a bond or comprises: E4; wherein at least one of BX or BY is not a bond, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same and use of the viruses and compositions in treatment, particularly in the treatment of cancer. The disclosure also extends to plasmids and processes employed to prepare the said viruses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: AKAMIS BIO LIMITED
    Inventors: Brian Robert Champion, Alice Claire Noel Brown, Kerry David Fisher, Tamara Nicolson
  • Publication number: 20230208815
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for security configurations for zonal computing architecture are described. A zonal computing system in a vehicle may be associated with multiple zones. The zonal computing system may include devices (e.g., sensors, actuators) that interact with the vehicle or an environment associated with the vehicle. A memory system included in the zonal computing system may authenticate whether a device associated with a zone is a trusted device and enable or restrict communications with the device based on the authentication. For example, the zonal computing system may include a central processor that communicates with a remote server and the multiple zones and may include a gateway processor coupled with the central processor and the device and associated with the zone. Based on whether the device is trusted, the memory system may enable or restrict communications between the central processer and the device and routed through the gateway processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Poorna Kale, Robert Noel Bielby
  • Patent number: 10916159
    Abstract: An application on a mobile phone or tablet computer or eyeglasses listens to the speech of a profoundly deaf person and interprets it in real time. It can then repeat it in a “normal voice”. The voice recognition is trained to the voice of the profoundly deaf person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Shintani, Brant Candelore, Mahyar Nejat, Robert Noel Blanchard, Hoda Sayyadinejad
  • Patent number: 10916250
    Abstract: An application on a mobile phone or tablet computer or eyeglasses listens to the speech of a profoundly deaf person and interprets it in real time. The voice recognition can be trained to the voice of the profoundly deaf person. A display such as a small tablet display which can be hung around the speaker's neck can present text output by the voice recognition module to allow someone to read the text. The application can then detect speech from the listener and display text converted from the speech to the deaf person through glasses or to a cell phone that is being held by hand or to the tablet, or to a different tablet that the previous listener has hung around his or her neck. In case of the same tablet the text from the listener's speech can be shown upside down so that the deaf person can look down and read the text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Shintani, Brant Candelore, Mahyar Nejat, Robert Noel Blanchard
  • Patent number: 10868624
    Abstract: An active optical cable (AOC) signals to a source that it needs power above a standard voltage, e.g., above five volts, by sending a signal such as a voltage step from one non-zero voltage to a second non-zero voltage or other voltage pattern on a hot plug detect (HPD) pin of a display data channel (DDC). While a legacy source device may not be able to detect this and consequently will operate as usual, a source device programmed according to present principles detects the request for more power represented by the voltage pattern established by the AOC, and in response increases the power (voltage and/or current) on DDC 5V line to the requested level, e.g., 10V at 500 mA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Shintani, Robert Noel Blanchard
  • Publication number: 20190371338
    Abstract: An application on a mobile phone or tablet computer or eyeglasses listens to the speech of a profoundly deaf person and interprets it in real time. The voice recognition can be trained to the voice of the profoundly deaf person. A display such as a small tablet display which can be hung around the speaker's neck can present text output by the voice recognition module to allow someone to read the text. The application can then detect speech from the listener and display text converted from the speech to the deaf person through glasses or to a cell phone that is being held by hand or to the tablet, or to a different tablet that the previous listener has hung around his or her neck. In case of the same tablet the text from the listener's speech can be shown upside down so that the deaf person can look down and read the text.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Peter Shintani, Brant Candelore, Mahyar Nejat, Robert Noel Blanchard
  • Publication number: 20190371202
    Abstract: An application on a mobile phone or tablet computer or eyeglasses listens to the speech of a profoundly deaf person and interprets it in real time. It can then repeat it in a “normal voice”. The voice recognition is trained to the voice of the profoundly deaf person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Peter Shintani, Brant Candelore, Mahyar Nejat, Robert Noel Blanchard, Hoda Sayyadinejad
  • Patent number: 10349122
    Abstract: An audio video display device executes a voice assistant that recognizes a spoken name associated with a hearing-impaired person and in response reduces the audio volume for the content being decoded, on the assumption that someone is speaking to the hearing-impaired person, and/or pauses the content being decoded, and/or determines the location of the source of the command and steers a microphone array to that location, and/or allows for independent volume/mute controls via an assistive listening device such as a neck loop to control the volume or mute the audio played on hearing aids independently of the volume of the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Shintani, Brant Candelore, Mahyar Nejat, Robert Noel Blanchard
  • Publication number: 20190182536
    Abstract: An audio video display device executes a voice assistant that recognizes a spoken name associated with a hearing-impaired person and in response reduces the audio volume for the content being decoded, on the assumption that someone is speaking to the hearing-impaired person, and/or pauses the content being decoded, and/or determines the location of the source of the command and steers a microphone array to that location, and/or allows for independent volume/mute controls via an assistive listening device such as a neck loop to control the volume or mute the audio played on hearing aids independently of the volume of the display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2017
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Peter Shintani, Brant Candelore, Mahyar Nejat, Robert Noel Blanchard
  • Patent number: 10264330
    Abstract: To improve cognitive comprehension of plots in videos and thus assist not only people with cognitive issues but also inattentive people that have trouble following along with the plot, information is sent about each scene in a video. Image recognition or speech recognition may be implemented on a video to recognize where in the video the viewer currently is at, and ancillary information pertaining to that spot in the video presented immediately or at a convenient scene break.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Brant Candelore, Mahyar Nejat, Peter Shintani, Robert Noel Blanchard
  • Publication number: 20190013889
    Abstract: An active optical cable (AOC) signals to a source that it needs power above a standard voltage, e.g., above five volts, by sending a signal such as a voltage step from one non-zero voltage to a second non-zero voltage or other voltage pattern on a hot plug detect (HPD) pin of a display data channel (DDC). While a legacy source device may not be able to detect this and consequently will operate as usual, a source device programmed according to present principles detects the request for more power represented by the voltage pattern established by the AOC, and in response increases the power (voltage and/or current) on DDC 5V line to the requested level, e.g., 10V at 500 mA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventors: Peter Shintani, Robert Noel Blanchard
  • Patent number: 10051227
    Abstract: A channel change detection feature is incorporated into future ATSC 1.0 receivers, future ATSC 3.0 receivers, and through a modification, to legacy ATSC 1.0 receivers that can detect new Program and System Information Protocol (PSIP) signaling. A TV or other digital video receiver occasionally performs an automatic channel programming scan. If it detects that a channel has disappeared, then the receiver re-scans the spectrum to update the channel map. If any changes in the channel map occurs, an indication is implied that some ATSC 1.0 and ATSC 3.0 stations have been shuffled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Shintani, Robert Noel Blanchard
  • Publication number: 20160078442
    Abstract: To eliminate the need for a user to laboriously enter device setup parameters into each of plural devices, a user ID is provided with a secure part, having the user's login credentials, and an unsecure device parameter part which defines device parameters desired by the user to be set in computing devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Peter Shintani, Robert Noel Blanchard
  • Publication number: 20150046943
    Abstract: An audio video display device (AVDD) includes a display, a processor controlling the display and a computer readable storage medium that is accessible to the processor. The computer readable storage medium bears instructions which when executed by the processor cause the processor to present, on the AVDD, AV content that is not associated with information pertaining to an emergency. The instructions cause the processor to receive, at the AVDD, data associated with an emergency alert and, responsive to receiving the data associated with the emergency alert, change audio presented on the AVDD from first audio presented on the AVDD and associated with the AV content to second audio associated the data to present the second audio. The second audio is presented on the AVDD automatically without receiving user input to change from the first audio to the second audio subsequent to receiving the data associated with the emergency alert.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Shintani, Robert Noel Blanchard
  • Patent number: 8918828
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention includes a technique for extracting private user data. A data sequence in a packetized transport stream is parsed to obtain a user data identifier (UDI) associated with a pre-defined data structure. The UDI is registered with a registration authority and is different from a standard identifier that is defined by a standard organization in a published standard document. The UDI is recognized. The private user data is extracted from the data sequence according to the pre-defined data structure corresponding to the recognized UDI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2014
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Kenneth Eyer, Robert Noel Blanchard
  • Publication number: 20140122143
    Abstract: A system is described that has a first engine configured to determine an assignment of a resource to a task. The assignment is based on a schedule representation comprising at least resource profile data and task profile data. The resource profile data represents a resource profile associated with the resource and the task profile data represents a task profile associated with the task. The system also has a data store configured to store a set of rules, the set of rules comprising data indicative of one or more functions to be applied to one or more input data sources to output at least one variable value for the schedule representation. This then allows a second engine coupled to the data store to be configured to update the schedule representation in accordance with the set of rules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2012
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: TRIMBLE NAVIGATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Brian Fletcher, Robert Noel William Laithwaite, Evgeny Selensky, Paul Sexton
  • Publication number: 20140020041
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention includes a technique for extracting private user data. A data sequence in a packetized transport stream is parsed to obtain a user data identifier (UDI) associated with a pre-defined data structure. The UDI is registered with a registration authority and is different from a standard identifier that is defined by a standard organization in a published standard document. The UDI is recognized. The private user data is extracted from the data sequence according to the pre-defined data structure corresponding to the recognized UDI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2013
    Publication date: January 16, 2014
    Applicants: Sony Electronics Inc., Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Kenneth Eyer, Robert Noel Blanchard