Patents by Inventor Robert L. Cook
Robert L. Cook 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: 20230001033Abstract: A sanitizing spray system includes a Nitrogen generation system that produces Nitrogen used as a carrier gas source for spraying an alcohol-based disinfecting and sanitizing composition without flashing.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2022Publication date: January 5, 2023Applicant: BIOMIST, INC.Inventors: Jay L. SHULER, Robert L. COOK, II
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Patent number: 11153522Abstract: An imaging system includes a Read-Out Integrated Circuit (ROIC) configured to receive high spatial resolution imagery having a detected amount of energy from a detection device. The ROIC includes a mask generator and a high-resolution image decode. The mask generator applies a pixel mask to the high spatial resolution imagery so as to generate compressed high spatial resolution imagery that preserves the detected amount of energy. The high-resolution image decoder receives the compressed high spatial resolution imagery and decompresses the compressed high spatial resolution imagery and obtain the high spatial resolution imagery having a detected amount of energy.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2019Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: RAYTHEON COMPANYInventor: Robert L. Cook
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Publication number: 20210168315Abstract: An imaging system includes a Read-Out Integrated Circuit (ROIC) configured to receive high spatial resolution imagery having a detected amount of energy from a detection device. The ROIC includes a mask generator and a high-resolution image decode. The mask generator applies a pixel mask to the high spatial resolution imagery so as to generate compressed high spatial resolution imagery that preserves the detected amount of energy. The high-resolution image decoder receives the compressed high spatial resolution imagery and decompresses the compressed high spatial resolution imagery and obtain the high spatial resolution imagery having a detected amount of energy.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2019Publication date: June 3, 2021Inventor: Robert L. Cook
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Publication number: 20190174865Abstract: A clipless cycling shoe having an upper and a base plate. The base plate has a medial portion, a lateral portion and a medial sidewall. The medial portion has a rigid support structure having a top portion and a bottom portion, a cavity is formed between the top portion and bottom portion, wherein the cavity is filled with a core material. The lateral portion has a lateral plate. The medial sidewall wrap is adjacent the medial portion and extends outward and upward relative to the base plate and the medial sidewall wrap extends a portion of the length of the base plate. The medial portion is desirably thicker than the lateral portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2019Publication date: June 13, 2019Inventors: Carl Darius Bird, Robert A.L. Cook
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Patent number: 10206451Abstract: A clipless cycling shoe having an upper and a base plate. The base plate has a medial portion, a lateral portion and a medial sidewall. The medial portion has a rigid support structure having a top portion and a bottom portion, a cavity is formed between the top portion and bottom portion, wherein the cavity is filled with a core material. The lateral portion has a lateral plate. The medial sidewall wrap is adjacent the medial portion and extends outward and upward relative to the base plate and the medial sidewall wrap extends a portion of the length of the base plate. The medial portion is desirably thicker than the lateral portion.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2012Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: SPECIALIZED BICYCLE COMPONENTS, INC.Inventors: Carl Darius Bird, Robert A. L. Cook
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Patent number: 9635287Abstract: Methods and apparatus to provide, from data from a single sensor, high-resolution imagery at a first frame rate, such as typical video frame rate, and lower-resolution imagery at a second frame rate, which is higher than the first rate. In one embodiment, the first frame rate data can be viewed by a user and the second frame rate data can be processed to identify an event of interest, such as pulsed light.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2011Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: Raytheon CompanyInventors: Richard H. Wyles, James F. Asbrock, Robert L. Cook, II, Simeon Symeonidis
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Patent number: 9237778Abstract: A cycling shoe can include a hook that, when used together with another device, such as with a rubber band, can position the shoe on a bicycle in a desired position. The shoes can be clipped into pedals on the bicycle, and the hook and rubber band can be used to position the shoes and crank arms of the bicycle in the position desired by the user. The hook can be on the arch side of the shoe. The hook can be separate from the tightening system.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2012Date of Patent: January 19, 2016Assignee: SPECIALIZED BICYCLE COMPONENTS, INC.Inventors: Robert A. L. Cook, Carl Darius Bird
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Patent number: 9149007Abstract: A blow molded nursery container is disclosed that includes a substantially circular side wall, a closed bottom end, an open top end, and a projecting lip positioned on the outer circumference of the open top end with a radial flange and recessed portion with a substantially hollow cross-section. At least two handles are connected to the container. Each handle includes a flexible member with a portion that is located above and spaced apart from the lip. The spacing of the flexible member permits access by a user's fingers. The flexible member extends through at least two holes in the side wall or flange and is restrained on the opposite side of the side wall or flange from the portion above the lip so as to connect the handle to the container. The two flexible members are preferably secured to one another.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2013Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: Nursery Supplies, Inc.Inventors: Joseph P. Danowski, Timothy W. Horton, Robert L. Cook, Mark R. Alt
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Patent number: 9007388Abstract: Surfaces without a global surface coordinate system are divided into surface regions having local surface coordinate systems to enable the caching of surface attribute values. A surface attribute value for a surface region may include contributions from two or more adjacent surfaces. Sample points may be arranged at the corners, rather than centers, of surface regions and include prefiltered values based on two or more surfaces. A renderer may sample the surface attribute function using these prefiltered values without accessing any adjacent surfaces, even if the renderer's filter crosses a surface boundary. A multiresolution cache stores surface attribute values at different resolution levels for surface regions of one or more surfaces, which may be discontiguous. Two or more resolution levels may have the same number of sample points but have values based on filters with different areas and spatial frequency limits. Resolution levels may be selected based on geodesic distance on a surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2011Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: PixarInventors: Robert L. Cook, Peter-Pike Sloan, Manuel Kraemer, Pitchaya Sitthi-Amorn
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Publication number: 20140182201Abstract: A blow molded nursery container is disclosed that includes a substantially circular side wall, a closed bottom end, an open top end, and a projecting lip positioned on the outer circumference of the open top end with a radial flange and recessed portion with a substantially hollow cross-section. At least two handles are connected to the container. Each handle includes a flexible member with a portion that is located above and spaced apart from the lip. The spacing of the flexible member permits access by a user's fingers. The flexible member extends through at least two holes in the side wall or flange and is restrained on the opposite side of the side wall or flange from the portion above the lip so as to connect the handle to the container. The two flexible members are preferably secured to one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2013Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: Nursery Supplies, Inc.Inventors: Joseph P. Danowski, Timothy W. Horton, Robert L. Cook, Mark R. Alt
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Publication number: 20140007464Abstract: Sporting footwear can include a buckle system to secure the footwear to the user's foot. The footwear may also include additional other types of fastening systems. The buckle system can include a base plate attached to the shoe and a buckle housing attached to the base plate. The buckle housing and base plate can be assembled without tools, such as having a snap fit interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2012Publication date: January 9, 2014Applicant: SPECIALIZED BICYCLE COMPONENTS, INC.Inventors: Carl Darius Bird, Robert A.L. Cook
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Publication number: 20140007463Abstract: A clipless cycling shoe having an upper and a base plate. The base plate has a medial portion, a lateral portion and a medial sidewall. The medial portion has a rigid support structure having a top portion and a bottom portion, a cavity is formed between the top portion and bottom portion, wherein the cavity is filled with a core material. The lateral portion has a lateral plate. The medial sidewall wrap is adjacent the medial portion and extends outward and upward relative to the base plate and the medial sidewall wrap extends a portion of the length of the base plate. The medial portion is desirably thicker than the lateral portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2012Publication date: January 9, 2014Inventors: Carl Darius Bird, Robert A.L. Cook
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Publication number: 20130340292Abstract: A cycling shoe can include a hook, or other device on the shoe which can be used together with another device, such as with a rubber band, to position the shoes on a bicycle in a desired position. The shoes can be clipped into pedals on the bicycle, and the hook and rubber band can be used to position the shoes and crank arms of the bicycle in the position desired by the user. The hook can be on the arch side of the shoe. The hook can be separate from the tightening system.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2012Publication date: December 26, 2013Applicant: SPECIALIZED BICYCLE COMPONENTS, INC.Inventors: Robert A.L. Cook, Carl Darius Bird
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Patent number: 8493383Abstract: Adaptive sampling alleviates aliasing by partitioning the field of view of an image sample point into depth regions. Portions of the scene are sampled within a depth region using sample rays. If a sample ray is not completely occluded in the depth region, corresponding sample rays are evaluated in adjacent depth regions. Sample rays can be recursively evaluated in further depth regions until all the subsamples intersect opaque objects or a depth limit or transparency threshold is reached. The value of an image sample point is the weighted combination of sample rays. The number of sample rays in each depth region may increase monotonically with distance along a line of sight from an image sample point for effects such as reflection, refraction, and illumination. The number of sample rays in each depth region may increase monotonically with distance from a focal plane for effects such as depth of field.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2009Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: PixarInventors: Robert L. Cook, Loren Carpenter
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Patent number: 8466919Abstract: An image may be represented by a directed acyclic graph (DAG) including a number of nodes on paths between input parameters and output values. Intermediate operations are performed at the nodes to produce intermediate output values. One or more of the input parameters may be modified (e.g., by an animator). A determination is then made as to which intermediate output values are affected by the modified input parameters. A simplified DAG is constructed from the nodes corresponding to the intermediate output values affected by the modified input parameters. The intermediate output values that are not affected by the modified input parameters and are maintained at a constant value corresponding to a previously determined value for the intermediate output value. The simplified DAG is evaluated to determine the output resulting from the modified input parameter such that the image may be re-rendered without re-evaluating the full DAG.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2009Date of Patent: June 18, 2013Assignee: PixarInventors: Thomas Douglas Selkirk Duff, Robert L. Cook
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Patent number: 8436856Abstract: A shader can include a series of instructions, among which are horizontal instructions and vertical instructions. Executing such shader for rendering animation information may mean many redundant computations on millions of graphic data points. Thus, vertical instructions are separated out from horizontal instructions and executed in a vertical manner, thereby reducing rendering time and cache space used during the process. That is, a block of instructions is recursively subdivided until a number of instructions that are to be executed in a horizontal manner are approximately minimized in each sub-block. All of the identified vertical sub-blocks can process each data point individually and independently from other data points, thereby achieving various advantages, including, but not limited to, temporary processing, index processing, efficient caching and the like.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2009Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: PixarInventors: Thomas Douglas Selkirk Duff, Robert L. Cook
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Patent number: 8436867Abstract: A degree of detail calculation required for calculations to process computer graphics data is determined based on input parameters that are varying in certain dimensions. During a detail analysis of a shader, a directed graph is built in such a way that each connection between nodes indicates a dependency among inputs and outputs of calculations and/or input parameters. For each input parameter, variability information about the input parameter is obtained. A lattice or a table representing dimensional variability is used to determine a variability value for each calculation for given input parameters and dependency relationships among other calculations. After a variability value has been determined for each calculation, calculations are grouped into several groups and executed once per the variability value.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2009Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: PixarInventors: Thomas Douglas Selkirk Duff, Robert L. Cook
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Patent number: 8411082Abstract: An ordered object list is compared with an ordered ray list and if the coordinate value of an entry in the ray list is less than the coordinate value of an entry in the object list, then the ray is added to an active ray list, and a trace of that ray is made against all objects in an active object list. If the coordinate value of the entry in the ray list is greater than the coordinate value of the entry in the object list, then the coordinate value corresponding to the entry in the object list is added to an active object list, and a trace of all rays in the active ray list is made against that coordinate value. Rays and objects are removed from the active lists based on determinations as to whether a trace hit occurred and/or which object point is encountered.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2010Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: PixarInventors: Robert L. Cook, Thomas Douglas Selkirk Duff, Brian Smits
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Publication number: 20130008057Abstract: A shoe including a sole for supporting a foot and an upper coupled to the sole. The upper defines an opening for receiving the foot and includes a first side panel and a second side panel movable in relation to the first side panel. The shoe also includes a closure mechanism that is coupled between the first side panel and the second side panel, and a tightening mechanism that is engaged with the closure mechanism to selectively draw the first side panel and the second side panel closer to each other and to selectively permit the first side panel and the second side panel to move apart from each other. A cover provides access to the tightening mechanism while enclosing the closure mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2011Publication date: January 10, 2013Applicant: SPECIALIZED BICYCLE COMPONENTS, INC.Inventors: Carl Darius Bird, John Figueiredo, Robert A.L. Cook
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Patent number: D887692Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2018Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: SPECIALIZED BICYCLE COMPONENTS, INC.Inventors: Stephen Quay, Justin Tucker, Nicholas Reid Gosseen, Robert A. L. Cook