Patents by Inventor Samuel Colt Meskimen

Samuel Colt Meskimen 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).

  • Inflight entertainment system using video object recognition to monitor seat areas and generate flight crew notifications
    Patent number: 11729432
    Abstract: An object recognition computer for a vehicle includes at least one processor and at least one memory storing program code executable by the at least one processor to perform operations. The operations are configured to receive video streams from a plurality of cameras spaced apart within the vehicle and each having a field-of-view capturing at least one passenger seat. For each of the video streams, the operations retrieve from a data structure information that defines a region within video frames of the video stream where object recognition is to be performed to attempt to identify a defined object associated with the at least one passenger seat. The operations then perform object recognition limited to within the defined region to identify the defined object. Notifications can be selectively generated to passengers and/or crew based on the object recognition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Thales Avionics, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel Colt Meskimen, Ruchik Samir Dave, Jean-Yves Couleaud
  • SPACED APART STERILIZATION LIGHTS IN AN AIRCRAFT CABIN
    Publication number: 20220193283
    Abstract: A pathogen sterilization light assembly for a vehicle cabin is provided herein and may include a plurality of sterilization lights mounted spaced apart along a cabin of the vehicle and configured to emit ultraviolet (UV) light directed toward areas within the cabin to sterilize pathogens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventor: Samuel Colt Meskimen
  • INFLIGHT ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM USING VIDEO OBJECT RECOGNITION TO MONITOR SEAT AREAS AND GENERATE FLIGHT CREW NOTIFICATIONS
    Publication number: 20210150235
    Abstract: An object recognition computer for a vehicle includes at least one processor and at least one memory storing program code executable by the at least one processor to perform operations. The operations are configured to receive video streams from a plurality of cameras spaced apart within the vehicle and each having a field-of-view capturing at least one passenger seat. For each of the video streams, the operations retrieve from a data structure information that defines a region within video frames of the video stream where object recognition is to be performed to attempt to identify a defined object associated with the at least one passenger seat. The operations then perform object recognition limited to within the defined region to identify the defined object. Notifications can be selectively generated to passengers and/or crew based on the object recognition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Samuel Colt Meskimen, Ruchik Samir Dave, Jean-Yves Couleaud