Patents by Inventor Robert Mark

Robert Mark 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: 8013899
    Abstract: A camera arrangement comprising a plurality of camera elements and a corresponding method of arranging camera elements is described. The camera arrangement improves the resolution of a stitched image by maintaining a uniform overlap between the fields of view of adjacent camera element. The uniform overlap is achieved. This is because the amount of unnecessary overlap required to achieve the required degree of overlap is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Sony United Kingdom Limited
    Inventors: Clive Henry Gillard, Simon Dominic Haynes, Robert Mark Stefan Porter
  • Publication number: 20110210554
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a High Efficiency MEMS Micro-Vibrational Energy Harvester (?VEH) having a thick beam bimorph architecture. The disclosed architecture is capable of producing a voltage of sufficient magnitude such that the requirement to connect a plurality of harvesters in series to produce an adequate voltage magnitude is eliminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2011
    Publication date: September 1, 2011
    Applicant: MCB CLEAN ROOM SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventor: Robert Mark Boysel
  • Publication number: 20110206626
    Abstract: A skin care product comprising from about 0.001% to about 10% of a retinoid, in combination with 0.0001% to about 50% of a combination of retinoid boosters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2011
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Applicant: CONOPCO, INC., D/B/A UNILEVER
    Inventors: Stewart Paton Granger, Ian Richard Scott, Robert Mark Donovan, Susanne Teklits Iobst, Lisa Licameli
  • Publication number: 20110200018
    Abstract: A method for providing transmit diversity in wireless network communications is presented. An indication of a slot structure is received. The slot structure identifies at least a first location of a reference signal within a slot. A first reference signal is transmitted within a first slot using a first antenna. A location of the first reference signal within the first slot is determined by the slot structure. A second reference signal is transmitted within the first slot using a second antenna. A location of the second reference signal within the first slot is determined by the slot structure. In some cases, the slot structure identifies a second location of a reference signal within the slot structure. The second location being offset from the first location, and a third reference signal is transmitted within the first slot at the second location on the first antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Inventors: Masoud Ebrahimi Tazeh Mahalleh, Robert Mark Harrison, Yongkang Jia, Hua Xu
  • Publication number: 20110199372
    Abstract: A method of detecting an object in an image at a client device is described. This method comprises the steps of: receiving from a server a two dimensional image of a scene, the scene being captured by a camera and the image comprising an object located within the scene, receiving from the server position data, the position data being indicative of the position of the object within the image; receiving from the server an outline representation of the object at that position, the outline representation defining for pixel positions in a segment of the image at that position whether the pixel position represents the object; and on the basis of said outline, detecting the object in the image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2010
    Publication date: August 18, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Mark Stefan PORTER, Stephen Mark Keating, Clive Henry Gillard
  • Patent number: 7992237
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises an architectural system and a patient adjustment device. The patient adjustment device is coupled to the architectural system and adapted to pull on a patient receiver to move a patient received by the patient receiver and located on a bed relative to the bed to adjust the position of the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.
    Inventors: David M. Minning, Troy D. Action, Jon C. Tekulve, Christian H. Reinke, Robert Mark Zerhusen, David C. Newkirk, Jonathan D. Turner
  • Publication number: 20110187827
    Abstract: A method of creating a stereoscopic image for display comprising the steps of: receiving a first image and a second image of the same scene captured from the same location, the second image being displaced from the first image by an amount; and transforming the second image such that at least some of the second image is displaced from the first image by a further amount; and outputting the first image and the transformed second image for stereoscopic display is disclosed. A corresponding apparatus is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Mark Stefan Porter, Stephen Mark Keating, Clive Henry Gillard
  • Patent number: 7991043
    Abstract: A demodulator in a receiver includes a correlator (240) for de-spreading a spread-spectrum signal, and a decision module (250) for detecting a preamble and for synchronizing to data frames of the spread spectrum signal. The demodulator includes symbol timers (231 and 233) that allow the demodulator to correlate to two preamble symbols simultaneously, where the two preamble symbols occur one-half a symbol period apart. The correlator includes a correlator structure having taps that correct for any frequency offset of a carrier signal. The correlator correlates to each of the two preamble symbols a plurality of times through oversampling, where each correlation compensates for a different amount of frequency offset. By analyzing occurrence of peaks in magnitude of the correlations, the decision module detects the preamble and selects weights for the taps to de-spread data frames received after the preamble.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert Mark Gorday
  • Publication number: 20110172190
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of Formula I and salts, hydrates, solvates, complexes, and prodrugs thereof. The present invention further provides methods for synthesizing compounds of Formula I. The invention additionally provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of Formula I and methods of using the pharmaceutical compositions of Formula I to treat and prevent disorders and diseases associated with the RyR receptors that regulate calcium channel functioning in cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2010
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Inventors: Andrew Robert Marks, Donald W. Landry, Shixian Deng
  • Publication number: 20110170575
    Abstract: A system is provided for transmitting a low code rate spatially multiplexed channel on multiple antennas. The system includes a transmitter and a processor. The processor is configured such that the processor encodes a block of information bits to form channel coded bits, wherein the ratio of the number of channel coded bits to the number of information bits is greater than one; and the processor maps the channel coded bits to modulation symbols, and each channel coded bit is mapped once to a modulation symbol. The transmitter is configured to transmit a first portion of the modulation symbols using a spreading sequence on a first antenna of the multiple antennas and to transmit a second portion of the modulation symbols using the spreading sequence on a second antenna of the multiple antennas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2010
    Publication date: July 14, 2011
    Applicant: RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED
    Inventors: Robert Mark Harrison, Hua Xu, Andrew Mark Earnshaw, Zhijun Cai
  • Publication number: 20110166891
    Abstract: A point-of-care computer system is provided, including a display positioned in a point-of-care location. The point-of-care computer includes hardware coupled to a frame of a hospital bed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2011
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Inventors: Robert Mark Zerhusen, Ryan A. Reeder, John D. Vogel, Michael E. Cerimele, Carl W. Riley, Timothy D. Wildman
  • Publication number: 20110165759
    Abstract: An RF switch to controllably withstand an applied RF voltage Vsw, or a method of fabricating such a switch, which includes a string of series-connected constituent FETs with a node of the string between each pair of adjacent FETs. The method includes controlling capacitances between different nodes of the string to effectively tune the string capacitively, which will reduce the variance in the RF switch voltage distributed across each constituent FET, thereby enhancing switch breakdown voltage. Capacitances are controlled, for example, by disposing capacitive features between nodes of the string, and/or by varying design parameters of different constituent FETs. For each node, a sum of products of each significant capacitor by a proportion of Vsw appearing across it may be controlled to approximately zero.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Inventor: Robert Mark Englekirk
  • Publication number: 20110164117
    Abstract: A camera arrangement comprising a 3 dimensional image capture portion arranged to capture a first stereoscopic image composed of a first and a second image and a further camera element spaced apart from the 3 dimensional capture portion, the further camera element arranged to capture a third image, whereby the third image, when viewed with either the first or second image forms a second stereoscopic image is described. A corresponding method and camera system is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2010
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Mark Stefan PORTER, Stephen Mark KEATING, Clive Henry GILLARD
  • Publication number: 20110156819
    Abstract: A bias generation method or apparatus defined by any one or any practical combination of numerous features that contribute to low noise and/or high efficiency biasing, including: having a charge pump control clock output with a waveform having limited harmonic content or distortion compared to a sine wave; having a ring oscillator to generating a charge pump clock that includes inverters current limited by cascode devices and achieves substantially rail-to-rail output amplitude; having a differential ring oscillator with optional startup and/or phase locking features to produce two phase outputs suitably matched and in adequate phase opposition; having a ring oscillator of less than five stages generating a charge pump clock; capacitively coupling the clock output(s) to some or all of the charge transfer capacitor switches; biasing an FET, which is capacitively coupled to a drive signal, to a bias voltage via an “active bias resistor” circuit that conducts between output terminals only during portions of a wa
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2009
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Inventors: Tae Youn Kim, Robert Mark Englekirk, Dylan J. Kelly
  • Publication number: 20110145714
    Abstract: A method and system for performing statistical analysis using a web browser includes selecting raw data for statistical analysis and specifying statistical operation(s) on the raw data. The web browser may be used to generate first program code corresponding to the statistical operation(s). After sending the first program code to a web server for execution, output data resulting from executing the first program code may be received at the web browser. The web browser may generate and display a graphical representation of the output data. The web browser may also be used to configure the graphical representation and generate second program code executable by a web browser for generating the graphical representation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2009
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Applicant: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Erian Laperi, Robert Mark Clark, James D. Cunliffe, II, Richard K. Hartenberger, Mo Katibeh, John Lampros, Joel Palmer
  • Patent number: 7960772
    Abstract: An RF switch to controllably withstand an applied RF voltage Vsw, or a method of fabricating such a switch, which includes a string of series-connected constituent FETs with a node of the string between each pair of adjacent FETs. The method includes controlling capacitances between different nodes of the string to effectively tune the string capacitively, which will reduce the variance in the RF switch voltage distributed across each constituent FET, thereby enhancing switch breakdown voltage. Capacitances are controlled, for example, by disposing capacitive features between nodes of the string, and/or by varying design parameters of different constituent FETs. For each node, a sum of products of each significant capacitor by a proportion of Vsw appearing across it may be controlled to approximately zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation
    Inventor: Robert Mark Englekirk
  • Patent number: 7959913
    Abstract: A skin care product comprising from about 0.001% to about 10% of a retinoid, in combination with 0.0001% to about 50% of a combination of retinoid boosters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Stewart Paton Granger, Ian Richard Scott, Robert Mark Donovan, Susanne Teklits Iobst, Lisa Licameli
  • Publication number: 20110138379
    Abstract: There is described a method of distributing software and supplemental display data and a client device having the same. The method reduces the cost of providing software to a number of devices on a multi-cast network. The software allows the user to gain access to the multi-cast network, and the supplemental display data is transferred to the client device over the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Mark Stefan Porter, Clive Henry Gillard, Simon Dominic Haynes, Henry Epsom
  • Publication number: 20110128913
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing interconnection between network operation environments are disclosed in some embodiments. This can include providing interoperability between 3GPP and 3GPP2 standards environments. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed that includes receiving a request from a mobile device for service at a gateway, determining a mode of operation for the mobile device by inspecting an incoming message, wherein the mode of operation includes 3GPP and 3GPP2, establishing a connection using a proxy mobile internet protocol (PMIP), where the type of connection established is dependent on the mode of operation, providing an IP address to a mobile device based on the mode of operation and the parameters associated with the mode of operation, and communicating with an authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) server operating in accordance with the mode of operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2010
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Inventors: Kuntal CHOWDHURY, Robert MARKS, Rajesh VELANDY, Andrew GIBBS
  • Publication number: 20110093867
    Abstract: Described is a system and method for optimizing event predicate processing. The method comprises processing a subscription including a plurality of subscription predicates, sorting the subscription predicates using a predefined sorting algorithm, processing an event including a plurality of event predicates and comparing the plurality of event predicates to the subscription predicates. When each of the subscription predicates is matched by a corresponding one of the event predicates, the event is output to a source of the subscription.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Publication date: April 21, 2011
    Inventor: Robert Mark Wyman