Patents by Inventor Samuel Gordon Noble

Samuel Gordon Noble 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: 9396377
    Abstract: A barcode decoding system and method are disclosed that use a data-driven classifier for transforming a potentially degraded barcode signal into a digit sequence. The disclosed implementations are robust to signal degradation through incorporation of a noise model into the classifier construction phase. The run-time computational cost is low, allowing for efficient implementations on portable devices. Implementations are disclosed for intelligent preview scaling, barcode-aware autofocus augmentation and multi-scale signal feature extraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Rudolph van der Merwe, Samuel Gordon Noble, Ralph Brunner
  • Publication number: 20150090797
    Abstract: A barcode decoding system and method are disclosed that use a data-driven classifier for transforming a potentially degraded barcode signal into a digit sequence. The disclosed implementations are robust to signal degradation through incorporation of a noise model into the classifier construction phase. The run-time computational cost is low, allowing for efficient implementations on portable devices. Implementations are disclosed for intelligent preview scaling, barcode-aware autofocus augmentation and multi-scale signal feature extraction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Rudolph van der Merwe, Samuel Gordon Noble, Ralph Brunner
  • Patent number: 8948513
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for identifying regions of interest in an image and identifying a barcode in a degraded image are provided. A region of interest is identified by pre-processing an image, generating a binary image based on a metric calculated on the pre-processed image, and analyzing regions of the image identified using connected components and other analysis. A barcode is identified by searching a population of barcodes, degrading ideal image intensity profiles of candidate barcodes, and comparing the degraded ideal image intensity profiles to an image intensity profile of the degraded image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Rudolph van der Merwe, Richard Eugene Crandall, Samuel Gordon Noble, Bertrand Serlet, Stanislav Kounitski
  • Patent number: 8929676
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for identifying regions of interest in an image and identifying a barcode in a degraded image are provided. A region of interest is identified by pre-processing an image, generating a binary image based on a metric calculated on the pre-processed image, and analyzing regions of the image identified using connected components and other analysis. A barcode is identified by searching a population of barcodes, degrading ideal image intensity profiles of candidate barcodes, and comparing the degraded ideal image intensity profiles to an image intensity profile of the degraded image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Rudolph van der Merwe, Richard Eugene Crandall, Samuel Gordon Noble, Bertrand Serlet, Stanislav Kounitski
  • Patent number: 8905314
    Abstract: A barcode decoding system and method are disclosed that use a data-driven classifier for transforming a potentially degraded barcode signal into a digit sequence. The disclosed implementations are robust to signal degradation through incorporation of a noise model into the classifier construction phase. The run-time computational cost is low, allowing for efficient implementations on portable devices. Implementations are disclosed for intelligent preview scaling, barcode-aware autofocus augmentation and multi-scale signal feature extraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Rudolph van der Merwe, Samuel Gordon Noble, Ralph Brunner
  • Publication number: 20130240628
    Abstract: A barcode decoding system and method are disclosed that use a data-driven classifier for transforming a potentially degraded barcode signal into a digit sequence. The disclosed implementations are robust to signal degradation through incorporation of a noise model into the classifier construction phase. The run-time computational cost is low, allowing for efficient implementations on portable devices. Implementations are disclosed for intelligent preview scaling, barcode-aware autofocus augmentation and multi-scale signal feature extraction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2012
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Rudolph van der Merwe, Samuel Gordon Noble, Ralph Brunner
  • Publication number: 20100189367
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for identifying regions of interest in an image and identifying a barcode in a degraded image are provided. A region of interest is identified by pre-processing an image, generating a binary image based on a metric calculated on the pre-processed image, and analyzing regions of the image identified using connected components and other analysis. A barcode is identified by searching a population of barcodes, degrading ideal image intensity profiles of candidate barcodes, and comparing the degraded ideal image intensity profiles to an image intensity profile of the degraded image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2009
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Rudolph van der Merwe, Richard Eugene Crandall, Samuel Gordon Noble, Bertrand Serlet, Stanislav Kounitski
  • Publication number: 20100187311
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for identifying regions of interest in an image and identifying a barcode in a degraded image are provided. A region of interest is identified by pre-processing an image, generating a binary image based on a metric calculated on the pre-processed image, and analyzing regions of the image identified using connected components and other analysis. A barcode is identified by searching a population of barcodes, degrading ideal image intensity profiles of candidate barcodes, and comparing the degraded ideal image intensity profiles to an image intensity profile of the degraded image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2009
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Inventors: Rudolph van der Merwe, Richard Eugene Crandall, Samuel Gordon Noble, Bertrand Serlet, Stanislav Kounitski