Patents by Inventor Russell R. Atkinson

Russell R. Atkinson 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: 8233722
    Abstract: An image management method and system provides for storing, indexing, searching, and/or retrieving image data. Keypoints are identified in images, including keypoints in a query image of a query document, and keypoints in potential target document images of a collection of potential target documents. Fingerprint information from the keypoints are generated, and the fingerprint information of a query image is compared with fingerprint information of potential target document images, found in the collection of potential target documents. A best match is determined between the fingerprint information of the query image and the potential target document images. At least one target document image is retrieved based on the determined best match. The retrieved at least one target image may then be displayed, printed or transmitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated
    Inventors: Doron Kletter, Eric Saund, William C. Janssen, Jr., Russel R. Atkinson
  • Publication number: 20090324100
    Abstract: An image management method and system provides for storing, indexing, searching, and/or retrieving image data. Keypoints are identified in images, including keypoints in a query image of a query document, and keypoints in potential target document images of a collection of potential target documents. Fingerprint information from the keypoints are generated, and the fingerprint information of a query image is compared with fingerprint information of potential target document images, found in the collection of potential target documents. A best match is determined between the fingerprint information of the query image and the potential target document images. At least one target document image is retrieved based on the determined best match. The retrieved at least one target image may then be displayed, printed or transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated
    Inventors: Doron Kletter, Eric Saund, William C. Janssen, JR., Russel R. Atkinson
  • Publication number: 20040059435
    Abstract: A document generating method and system is provided for autonomous selection and communication of information drawn from a varying data stream, keyed by a set of predetermined subjects corresponding to a parameter profile. An original set of predetermined subjects is selected comprised of contents which are updated over time to comprise the varying data stream. A user selects a subset of the original set to form a parameter profile. Incidental to the user generating a first document, a second document is generated comprised of data segments extracted from the subset. The first and second documents are associated and contemporaneously communicated to the user. Preferably, the subject invention is applicable to printed documents and the associating comprises identifying a white space within the first document and disposing the second document within that white space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2003
    Publication date: March 25, 2004
    Applicant: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: David Goldberg, Mark D. Weiser, Roy Want, Anthony George LaMarca, Russell R. Atkinson
  • Patent number: 6671064
    Abstract: An object optimized printing system and method comprises a page description language decomposing system, a command instruction and data generating system and an image output terminal controller. The PDL decomposition system inputs a print file defining a plurality of pages in the page description language and locates the plurality of objects forming each page and their object types. Based on the determine object types and any explicit rendering commands in the PDL file, the PDL decomposition system automatically generates rendering tags for each of the objects. The rendering tags are used to control the command instruction and data generating system, the IOT controller and/or the image output terminal to optimize the printing by the IOT on an object-by-object basis. Based on the objects and the generated rendering tags, the command instruction and data generating system generates the differing types of data and the command instructions on a scanline-by-scanline basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: David E. Rumph, Robert M. Coleman, Charles M. Hains, James K. Kenealy, Mark T. Corl, Russell R. Atkinson, Michael F. Plass, Eric S. Nickell, L. Dale Green, Robert R. Buckley
  • Patent number: 6429948
    Abstract: An object optimized printing system and method includes a page description language decomposing system, a command instruction and data generating system and an image output terminal controller. The PDL decomposition system inputs a plurality of pages in the page description language and locates the plurality of objects forming each page and their object types. Based on the determine object types and any explicit rendering commands, the PDL decomposition system automatically generates rendering tags for each of the objects. The rendering tags are used to control the command instruction and data generating system, the IOT controller and/or the IOT to optimize the printing by the IOT on an object-by-object basis. Based on the objects and the generated rendering tags, the command instruction and data generating system generates the differing types of data and the command instructions on a scanline-by-scanline basis. The generated command instructions and data are output to the IOT controller scanline-by-scanline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2002
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: David E. Rumph, Robert M. Coleman, Charles M. Hains, James K. Kenealy, Mark T. Corl, Russell R. Atkinson, Michael F. Plass, Eric S. Nickell, L. Dale Green, Robert R. Buckley
  • Patent number: 6327043
    Abstract: An object optimized printing system and method comprises a page description language decomposing system, a command instruction and data generating system and an image output terminal controller. The PDL decomposition system inputs a print file defining a plurality of pages in the page description language and locates the plurality of objects forming each page and their object types. Based on the determine object types and any explicit rendering commands in the PDL file, the PDL decomposition system automatically generates rendering tags for each of the objects. The rendering tags are used to control the command instruction and data generating system, the IOT controller and/or the image output terminal to optimize the printing by the IOT on an object-by-object basis. Based on the objects and the generated rendering tags, the command instruction and data generating system generates the differing types of data and the command instructions on a scanline-by-scanline basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: David E. Rumph, Robert M. Coleman, Charles M. Hains, James K. Kenealy, Mark T. Corl, Russell R. Atkinson, Michael F. Plass, Eric S. Nickell, L. Dale Green, Robert R. Buckley
  • Publication number: 20010043345
    Abstract: An object optimized printing system and method comprises a page description language decomposing system, a command instruction and data generating system and an image output terminal controller. The PDL decomposition system inputs a print file defining a plurality of pages in the page description language and locates the plurality of objects forming each page and their object types. Based on the determine object types and any explicit rendering commands in the PDL file, the PDL decomposition system automatically generates rendering tags for each of the objects. The rendering tags are used to control the command instruction and data generating system, the IOT controller and/or the image output terminal to optimize the printing by the IOT on an object-by-object basis. Based on the objects and the generated rendering tags, the command instruction and data generating system generates the differing types of data and the command instructions on a scanline-by-scanline basis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2001
    Publication date: November 22, 2001
    Applicant: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: David E. Rumph, Robert M. Coleman, Charles M. Hains, James K. Kenealy, Mark T. Corl, Russell R. Atkinson, Michael F. Plass, Eric S. Nickell, L. Dale Green, Robert R. Buckley
  • Patent number: 6256104
    Abstract: An object optimized printing system and method comprises a page description language decomposing system, a command instruction and data generating system and an image output terminal controller. The PDL decomposition system inputs a print file defining a plurality of pages in the page description language and locates the plurality of objects forming each page and their object types. Based on the determine object types and any explicit rendering commands in the PDL file, the PDL decomposition system automatically generates rendering tags for each of the objects. The rendering tags are used to control the command instruction and data generating system, the IOT controller and/or the image output terminal to optimize the printing by the IOT on an object-by-object basis. Based on the objects and the generated rendering tags, the command instruction and data generating system generates the differing types of data and the command instructions on a scanline-by-scanline basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2001
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: David E. Rumph, Robert M. Coleman, Charles M. Hains, James K. Kenealy, Mark T. Corl, Russell R. Atkinson, Michael F. Plass, Eric S. Nickell, L. Dale Green, Robert R. Buckley
  • Patent number: 6006013
    Abstract: An object optimized printing system and method comprises a page description language decomposing system, a command instruction and data generating system and an image output terminal controller. The PDL decomposition system inputs a print file defining a plurality of pages in the page description language and locates the plurality of objects forming each page and their object types. Based on the determine object types and any explicit rendering commands in the PDL file, the PDL decomposition system automatically generates rendering tags for each of the objects. The rendering tags are used to control the command instruction and data generating system, the IOT controller and/or the image output terminal to optimize the printing by the IOT on an object-by-object basis. Based on the objects and the generated rendering tags, the command instruction and data generating system generates the differing types of data and the command instructions on a scanline-by-scanline basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1999
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: David E. Rumph, Robert M. Coleman, Charles M. Hains, James K. Kenealy, Mark T. Corl, Russell R. Atkinson, Margaret Motamed, Matthew Tucker, Michael F. Plass, Eric S. Nickell, L. Dale Green
  • Patent number: 5634089
    Abstract: In an arrangement in which compressed image data including color image information is to be directed to a printer in streams of data including Sample data, Mask data, Color data and Command or instruction data, wherein the compressed data is directed along a bus, data is retrieved from the bus, with instructions from a fetcher which includes direct memory access (DMA), and is directed to several data type specific FIFO memories. A combiner, operating in accordance with instructions stored in a command FIFO, removes data from the Sample, Mask and Constant Color FIFO's in accordance with the desired image requirements as specified by Command data to form an output image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1997
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Kulbida, Craig P. Ephraim, Russell R. Atkinson