Patents by Inventor Scott W. Breen

Scott W. Breen 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).

  • Implicit video coding confirmation of automatic address recognition
    Patent number: 7925046
    Abstract: A method for sorting mail that may include performing an automatic address recognition process on a digitized image of a mail piece and generating a plurality of conditional address recognition results and a plurality of confirmation values each associated with one of the plurality of conditional address recognition results. The method can include sending the digitized image, the plurality of conditional address recognition results and the plurality of confirmation values to a video coding system, and selecting a video coding task corresponding to one or more of the plurality of confirmation values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2011
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Alfred T. Rundle, Scott W. Breen
  • IMPLICIT VIDEO CODING CONFIRMATION OF AUTOMATIC ADDRESS RECOGNITION
    Publication number: 20080273749
    Abstract: A method for sorting mail that may include performing an automatic address recognition process on a digitized image of a mail piece and generating a plurality of conditional address recognition results and a plurality of confirmation values each associated with one of the plurality of conditional address recognition results. The method can include sending the digitized image, the plurality of conditional address recognition results and the plurality of confirmation values to a video coding system, and selecting a video coding task corresponding to one or more of the plurality of confirmation values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2007
    Publication date: November 6, 2008
    Applicant: LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alfred T. Rundle, Scott W. Breen