Patents by Inventor Roland Findlay

Roland Findlay 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: 10592855
    Abstract: A system and method that generates a planogram is disclosed. The method includes receiving, from an image processing module, a realogram, the realogram including information about items recognized in an image, aligning the items in the realogram using the information about the items recognized in the image, relocating the items horizontally and vertically such that the items are distributed among a plurality of aligned, non-overlapping slots, and providing the relocated items for display as a planogram of the items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Ricoh Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Michael Griffin, Jonathan Zaremski, Jamey Graham, Tiffany Romain, Roland Findlay
  • Patent number: 10514825
    Abstract: A system and method for image processing result visualization. The method includes receiving a job, wherein the job includes a panoramic image and image recognition information, and creating a visualization based on the job, wherein the visualization includes the panoramic image with the image recognition information layered over the panoramic image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jamey Graham, Roland Findlay, Michael Griffin, Tiffany Romain
  • Patent number: 10438165
    Abstract: A system and method that generates a planogram from a realogram is disclosed. The method includes receiving, from an image processing module, a realogram, the realogram including an image and information about a set of items recognized in the image, generating a bounding box containing the set of recognized items, identifying a subset of the set of recognized items corresponding to a shelf, determining a location of each gap of a number of gaps on the shelf, determining a physical width of each gap of the number of gaps, and generating, from the realogram, a planogram based on the bounding box, the set of recognized items, the location, and the physical width of each of the number of gaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Roland Findlay
  • Patent number: 10339690
    Abstract: A system and method for image processing result visualization. The method includes receiving a job, wherein the job includes a panoramic image and image recognition information, and creating a visualization based on the job, wherein the visualization includes the panoramic image with the image recognition information layered over the panoramic image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Roland Findlay, Michael Griffin, Tiffany Romain, Jamey Graham
  • Patent number: 10250947
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for hosting collaboration between multiple clients. The system includes a network interface able to communicate with clients, and a control unit. The control unit is able to receive a screen capture that represents visual content at a display of a client, to identify multiple clients for receiving the screen capture, and to transmit the screen capture to the multiple clients for presentation at displays of the multiple clients. The control unit is further able to receive instructions in parallel from the multiple clients representing marks made upon the screen capture, and to transmit the instructions in parallel to the multiple clients to apply the marks onto the screen capture as presented at the displays of the multiple clients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Roland Findlay, Ronald Marc Conescu, Eugene Limb, Haixia Yu, Jay Dautcher, Elena Grostrer, Michael Griffin, Yuko Ihara
  • Patent number: 10250946
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for hosting collaboration between multiple clients. The system includes a network interface able to communicate with clients, and a control unit. The control unit is able to receive a screen capture that represents visual content at a display of a client, to identify multiple clients for receiving the screen capture, and to transmit the screen capture to the multiple clients for presentation at displays of the multiple clients. The control unit is further able to receive instructions in parallel from the multiple clients representing marks made upon the screen capture, and to transmit the instructions in parallel to the multiple clients to apply the marks onto the screen capture as presented at the displays of the multiple clients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Roland Findlay, Ronald Marc Conescu, Eugene Limb, Haixia Yu, Jay Dautcher, Elena Grostrer, Michael Griffin, Yuko Ihara
  • Publication number: 20180300043
    Abstract: A system and method that generates a planogram from a realogram is disclosed. The method includes receiving, from an image processing module, a realogram, the realogram including an image and information about a set of items recognized in the image, determining one or more linear groupings of a subset of the set of recognized items corresponding to each shelf, generating a planogram based on the realogram and the one or more linear groupings, generating a user interface for presentation on a client device of a user, presenting the realogram in a first portion of the user interface and the planogram in a second portion of the user interface, receiving user input via the user interface, and updating the planogram based on the user input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Jamey Graham, Roland Findlay, Michael Griffin
  • Publication number: 20180260767
    Abstract: A system and method that generates a planogram from a realogram is disclosed. The method includes receiving, from an image processing module, a realogram, the realogram including an image and information about a set of items recognized in the image, generating a bounding box containing the set of recognized items, identifying a subset of the set of recognized items corresponding to a shelf, determining a location of each gap of a number of gaps on the shelf, determining a physical width of each gap of the number of gaps, and generating, from the realogram, a planogram based on the bounding box, the set of recognized items, the location, and the physical width of each of the number of gaps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Applicant: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventor: Roland Findlay
  • Patent number: 9980008
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for hosting collaboration between multiple clients. The system includes a network interface able to communicate with clients, and a control unit. The control unit is able to receive a screen capture that represents visual content at a display of a client, to identify multiple clients for receiving the screen capture, and to transmit the screen capture to the multiple clients for presentation at displays of the multiple clients. The control unit is further able to receive instructions in parallel from the multiple clients representing marks made upon the screen capture, and to transmit the instructions in parallel to the multiple clients to apply the marks onto the screen capture as presented at the displays of the multiple clients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Roland Findlay, Ronald Marc Conescu, Eugene Limb, Haixia Yu, Jay Dautcher, Elena Grostrer, Michael Griffin, Yuko Ihara
  • Patent number: 9948988
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for hosting collaboration between multiple clients. The system includes a network interface able to communicate with clients, and a control unit. The control unit is able to receive a screen capture that represents visual content at a display of a client, to identify multiple clients for receiving the screen capture, and to transmit the screen capture to the multiple clients for presentation at displays of the multiple clients. The control unit is further able to receive instructions in parallel from the multiple clients representing marks made upon the screen capture, and to transmit the instructions in parallel to the multiple clients to apply the marks onto the screen capture as presented at the displays of the multiple clients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Roland Findlay, Ronald Marc Conescu, Eugene Limb, Haixia Yu, Jay Dautcher, Elena Grostrer, Michael Griffin, Yuko Ihara
  • Publication number: 20170177195
    Abstract: A system and method for image processing result visualization. The method includes receiving a job, wherein the job includes a panoramic image and image recognition information, and creating a visualization based on the job, wherein the visualization includes the panoramic image with the image recognition information layered over the panoramic image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: Ricoh Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Roland Findlay, Michael Griffin, Tiffany Romain, Jamey Graham
  • Publication number: 20170178061
    Abstract: A system and method that generates a planogram is disclosed. The method includes receiving, from an image processing module, a realogram, the realogram including information about items recognized in an image, aligning the items in the realogram using the information about the items recognized in the image, relocating the items horizontally and vertically such that the items are distributed among a plurality of aligned, non-overlapping slots, and providing the relocated items for display as a planogram of the items.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: Ricoh Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Michael Griffin, Jonathan Zaremski, Jamey Graham, Tiffany Romain, Roland Findlay
  • Publication number: 20170177172
    Abstract: A system and method for image processing result visualization. The method includes receiving a job, wherein the job includes a panoramic image and image recognition information, and creating a visualization based on the job, wherein the visualization includes the panoramic image with the image recognition information layered over the panoramic image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2015
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: Ricoh Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jamey Graham, Roland Findlay, Michael Griffin, Tiffany Romain
  • Patent number: 9122444
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for provisioning, via a projector, client software for accessing the projector from a network. The projector includes a light emitting unit that projects visible light representing image information onto a screen, a network interface, and a control unit. The control unit provides client software to network devices that enables the network devices to interact with the projector, receives input via the network interface from the client software operating on multiple network devices, processes the input from the client software to generate image information for the light emitting unit, and provides the generated image information to the light emitting unit for projection onto the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Roland Findlay, Ronald Marc Conescu, Haixia Yu, Max E. McFarland, Michael Griffin, Jay Dautcher, Yuko Ihara
  • Publication number: 20130201209
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for provisioning, via a projector, client software for accessing the projector from a network. The projector includes a light emitting unit that projects visible light representing image information onto a screen, a network interface, and a control unit. The control unit provides client software to network devices that enables the network devices to interact with the projector, receives input via the network interface from the client software operating on multiple network devices, processes the input from the client software to generate image information for the light emitting unit, and provides the generated image information to the light emitting unit for projection onto the screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Inventors: Roland Findlay, Ronald Marc Conescu, Haixia Yu, Max E. McFarland, Michael Griffin, Jay Dautcher, Yuko Ihara
  • Publication number: 20130086487
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for hosting collaboration between multiple clients. The system includes a network interface able to communicate with clients, and a control unit. The control unit is able to receive a screen capture that represents visual content at a display of a client, to identify multiple clients for receiving the screen capture, and to transmit the screen capture to the multiple clients for presentation at displays of the multiple clients. The control unit is further able to receive instructions in parallel from the multiple clients representing marks made upon the screen capture, and to transmit the instructions in parallel to the multiple clients to apply the marks onto the screen capture as presented at the displays of the multiple clients.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Inventors: Roland Findlay, Ronald Marc Conescu, Eugene Limb, Haixia Yu, Jay Dautcher, Elena Grostrer, Michael Griffin, Yuko Ihara
  • Publication number: 20130086165
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for hosting collaboration between multiple clients. The system includes a network interface able to communicate with clients, and a control unit. The control unit is able to receive a screen capture that represents visual content at a display of a client, to identify multiple clients for receiving the screen capture, and to transmit the screen capture to the multiple clients for presentation at displays of the multiple clients. The control unit is further able to receive instructions in parallel from the multiple clients representing marks made upon the screen capture, and to transmit the instructions in parallel to the multiple clients to apply the marks onto the screen capture as presented at the displays of the multiple clients.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Inventors: Roland Findlay, Ronald Marc Conescu, Eugene Limb, Haixia Yu, Jay Dautcher, Elena Grostrer, Michael Griffin, Yuko Ihara
  • Publication number: 20130086166
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for hosting collaboration between multiple clients. The system includes a network interface able to communicate with clients, and a control unit. The control unit is able to receive a screen capture that represents visual content at a display of a client, to identify multiple clients for receiving the screen capture, and to transmit the screen capture to the multiple clients for presentation at displays of the multiple clients. The control unit is further able to receive instructions in parallel from the multiple clients representing marks made upon the screen capture, and to transmit the instructions in parallel to the multiple clients to apply the marks onto the screen capture as presented at the displays of the multiple clients.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Inventors: Roland Findlay, Ronald Marc Conescu, Eugene Limb, Haixia Yu, Jay Dautcher, Elena Grostrer, Michael Griffin, Yuko Ihara
  • Publication number: 20130086209
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for hosting collaboration between multiple clients. The system includes a network interface able to communicate with clients, and a control unit. The control unit is able to receive a screen capture that represents visual content at a display of a client, to identify multiple clients for receiving the screen capture, and to transmit the screen capture to the multiple clients for presentation at displays of the multiple clients. The control unit is further able to receive instructions in parallel from the multiple clients representing marks made upon the screen capture, and to transmit the instructions in parallel to the multiple clients to apply the marks onto the screen capture as presented at the displays of the multiple clients.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Publication date: April 4, 2013
    Inventors: Roland Findlay, Ronald Marc Coneseu, Eugene Limb, Haixia Yu, Jay Dautcher, Elena Grostrer, Michael Griffin, Yuko Ihara
  • Patent number: RE48494
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for provisioning, via a projector, client software for accessing the projector from a network. The projector includes a light emitting unit that projects visible light representing image information onto a screen, a network interface, and a control unit. The control unit provides client software to network devices that enables the network devices to interact with the projector, receives input via the network interface from the client software operating on multiple network devices, processes the input from the client software to generate image information for the light emitting unit, and provides the generated image information to the light emitting unit for projection onto the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Roland Findlay, Ronald Marc Conescu, Haixia Yu, Max E. McFarland, Michael G. E. Griffin, Jay Dautcher, Yuko Ihara