Patents by Inventor Robert Banfield

Robert Banfield 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: 20240141624
    Abstract: Techniques for orchestrating activities at an earthmoving site are described. In an example, a stream of images are captured by an image capturing device removably fixed to a mobile earthmoving machine with a field of view overlapping with a working range of an attachment coupled to the mobile earthmoving machine. Using a selected subset of images from the stream captured during a time period, a first trained algorithm generates a probability that the subset of images depicts an action performable by the machine. Based on the probability, it is determined that the machine was performing the action during the time period, and in response, an image from the subset of images is selected. The image and an indication that the machine was performing the action during the time period are transmitted to a remote server system through a network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Trimble Inc.
    Inventors: Karoliina Torttila, Jim Coleman, Robert Banfield, Vishakaraj Shanmugavel
  • Publication number: 20240104132
    Abstract: One or more three-dimensional models that corresponds to at least one two-dimensional image are determined by receiving image data that corresponds to the at least one two-dimensional image, generating features based on the image data corresponding to the at least one two-dimensional image, generating a representation vector for the at least one two-dimensional image by transforming the features into a predetermined amount of numerical representations corresponding to the features, and outputting the representation vector for the at least one two-dimensional image to facilitate a search query for the one or more three-dimensional models associated with the at least one two-dimensional image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Trimble Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Banfield, Aristodimos Komninos, Jacques Harvent, Michael Tadros, Karoliina Torttila
  • Patent number: 11733861
    Abstract: A user computing device displays a three-dimensional virtual space via a user interface. The user computing device detects a gesture input at a location of the user interface. The user computing device translates the gesture input into a user interface input by predicting, based on the gesture input, a design intended by the gesture input and mapping, based on the design and the location of the gesture input on the user interface, the design to the user interface to generate the user interface input. The user computing device executes, in response to the user interface input, an operation to add an object in the three dimensional virtual space. The user computing device renders an updated three dimensional space displaying the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Trimble Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Tadros, Robert Banfield, Ross Stump, Wei Wang
  • Patent number: 11379778
    Abstract: Embodiments describe a method for capturing objects in action at an earthmoving site. The method includes capturing an image of a region of the earthmoving site including an object, the image being recorded as captured digital data; identifying a classification of the object using a trained algorithm existing in memory of the image capturing device; sending the classification of the object to a remote server through a network; determining a pixel location and a boundary of the object within a field of view of the image capturing device based on positions of pixels of the object in the image; sending a set of images including the image to the remote server; determining an activity being performed by the object based on an analysis of digital data associated with the classification of the object and the movement of the object at the earthmoving site; and outputting a report to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Trimble Inc.
    Inventors: Karoliina Torttila, James Coleman, Robert Banfield, Matthew Compton
  • Publication number: 20220164097
    Abstract: A user computing device displays a three-dimensional virtual space via a user interface. The user computing device detects a gesture input at a location of the user interface. The user computing device translates the gesture input into a user interface input by predicting, based on the gesture input, a design intended by the gesture input and mapping, based on the design and the location of the gesture input on the user interface, the design to the user interface to generate the user interface input. The user computing device executes, in response to the user interface input, an operation to add an object in the three dimensional virtual space. The user computing device renders an updated three dimensional space displaying the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Michael Tadros, Robert Banfield, Ross Stump, Wei Wang
  • Publication number: 20210279659
    Abstract: Embodiments describe a method for capturing objects in action at an earthmoving site. The method includes capturing an image of a region of the earthmoving site including an object, the image being recorded as captured digital data; identifying a classification of the object using a trained algorithm existing in memory of the image capturing device; sending the classification of the object to a remote server through a network; determining a pixel location and a boundary of the object within a field of view of the image capturing device based on positions of pixels of the object in the image; sending a set of images including the image to the remote server; determining an activity being performed by the object based on an analysis of digital data associated with the classification of the object and the movement of the object at the earthmoving site; and outputting a report to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Karoliina Torttila, Jim Coleman, Robert Banfield, Matt Compton
  • Publication number: 20060269790
    Abstract: A piston ring for internal combustion engines with a coating of Chromium nitride (CrN) deposited by a physical vapor deposition process on a sliding surface with a typical crystal structure of CrN phase, has a high wear resistance and superior resistance to the generation of micro-cracks and consequent localized loss of pieces of the coating. The coating is a columnar crystalline coating of CrN having a dispersed pore content lower than 10% in volume and ratio of intensities, measured through x-ray diffraction, between the crystal planes (111) and planes (200), parallel to the surface, in the range of 0.40 to 0.70. This crystalline distribution is obtained through an oxygen content impregnated in the CrN coating between 1.0% in weight to 7.0% in weight. The Vickers hardness of the film ranges from 1,500 to 2,200 HV.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2006
    Publication date: November 30, 2006
    Inventors: Jose Valentim Sarabanda, Robert Banfield, Gisela Marques