Patents by Inventor Robert North

Robert North 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: 20220148223
    Abstract: A lens calibration system for calibrating a lens of an image capture device, the lens calibration system comprising: a processor configured to receive from the image capture device a series of image frames of a scene at different rotational positions of the image capture device; The processor being configured to: Identify in the series of image frames elements representing a first marker located at a first known distance from the image capture device and a second marker located at a second known distance from the image capture device, the first and the second known distances being different to one another; track the identified elements representing each marker across the series of image frames; process the tracked elements to determine a characteristic parameter of the lens of the image capture device; and build a lens model for the image capture device in dependence on the determined characteristic parameter of the lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: Mo-Sys Engineering Limited
    Inventors: Michael Paul Alexander Geissler, Simon Julier, Robert North
  • Publication number: 20150045432
    Abstract: A palatable, single serving dietary supplement of amino acids that may be taken as a nutritional aid to improve health and well-being by promoting higher quality sleep, enhancing repair of muscular tissue after strenuous exercise in part through boosting the natural production of human growth hormone, enhancing the immune system, improve gut barrier function, aiding in responses to upper respiratory viral pathogens, reversing side effects from the over use of nutritional energy drinks with stimulants and simple sugars and reverse the side effects of excess signaling through the cortisol pathway resulting from chronic environmental stress.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: North Health Essentials, LLC
    Inventors: Robert North, James Crute
  • Patent number: 8099241
    Abstract: The present invention is a method and apparatus for determining oil based mud contamination of a hydrocarbon fluid obtained from a wellbore during a formation testing. The invention includes receiving a model for simulating the contamination and receiving an empirical equation for computing the contamination. At a given pumping time, a simulated contamination is generated based on the model and an empirically computed contamination is generated based on the first empirical equation. The simulated contamination and empirically computed contamination are compared and a determination as to which is more reliable is made. Revision of the first model or first empirical equation based is then performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: YuQiang Niu, Robert North, Chen Lin
  • Publication number: 20100169020
    Abstract: The present invention is a method and apparatus for determining oil based mud contamination of a hydrocarbon fluid obtained from a wellbore during a formation testing. The invention includes receiving a model for simulating the contamination and receiving an empirical equation for computing the contamination. At a given pumping time, a simulated contamination is generated based on the model and an empirically computed contamination is generated based on the first empirical equation. The simulated contamination and empirically computed contamination are compared and a determination as to which is more reliable is made. Revision of the first model or first empirical equation based is then performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2008
    Publication date: July 1, 2010
    Inventors: YuQiang Niu, Robert North, Chen Lin