Patents by Inventor Sean Mark Blanchflower
Sean Mark Blanchflower 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).
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Publication number: 20210011895Abstract: According to examples, an apparatus may include a processor that may divide content of a document to be indexed into sections. The apparatus may divide and arrange each section into a hierarchy based on linguistic, spatial, or other analysis. The apparatus may identify a context of each section that may provide an indication of the subject matter of the section. The apparatus may add the context to downstream sections in the hierarchy. The apparatus may generate an index entry for each section based on the content of the section and any added context from upstream sections. Thus, the index entry for a given section may be based on the context of the given section and context of upstream sections in the hierarchy. In this way, the index entries may account for not only the content of the given section, but also context from upstream sections.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2019Publication date: January 14, 2021Applicant: LONGSAND LIMITEDInventors: Sean Mark BLANCHFLOWER, Brian Gibson COWE
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Patent number: 9691184Abstract: According to an example, a computer may receive characteristics information of an object in a video stream captured by a first computing device, generate a signature based on the characteristics information, identify an augmented reality information associated with the signature, transmit the augmented reality information to the first computing device, receive, from a second computing device, a set of characteristics information of the object in an image captured by the second computing device, determine that the set of characteristics information from the second computing device has a second signature that matches the signature generated based on the characteristics information received form the first computing device, and transmit the identified augmented reality information to the second computing device.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2015Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: Aurasma LimitedInventors: Sean Mark Blanchflower, Simon Hayhurst
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Patent number: 9530251Abstract: The systems and methods may allow mobile computing devices to identify real world trigger items and to cause augmented reality scenarios associated with a real world trigger item to be presented on a display of the mobile computing device. A lookup scheme may identify indexed feature points of known candidate trigger items stored in a database. A number of evaluations occur between the indexed feature points to the feature points found in the real world trigger item. A determination that the feature points of a candidate trigger item matches the feature points of the real world trigger item is made when a confidence threshold is met or exceeded based on at least the look up scheme, weighted factor evaluation, variable threshold evaluation and potentially a geometric consistency evaluation to declare a positive match.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2014Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: Aurasma LimitedInventors: James Loxam, Sean Mark Blanchflower
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Patent number: 9430876Abstract: The systems and methods may allow mobile computing devices to identify real world trigger items and to cause augmented reality scenarios associated with a real world trigger item to be presented on a display of the mobile computing device. A lookup scheme may identify indexed feature points of known candidate trigger items stored in a database. A number of evaluations occur between the indexed feature points to the feature points found in the real world trigger item. A determination that the feature points of a candidate trigger item matches the feature points of the real world trigger item is made when a confidence threshold is met or exceeded based on at least the look up scheme, weighted factor evaluation, variable threshold evaluation and potentially a geometric consistency evaluation to declare a positive match.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2012Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: Aurasma LimitedInventors: James Loxam, Sean Mark Blanchflower
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Patent number: 9338589Abstract: The systems and methods allow users of mobile computing devices to generate augmented reality scenarios. Augmented reality content is paired with a real world trigger item to generate the augmented reality scenario. The augmented reality content is overlaid onto frames on a video when a trigger item is detected. Each mobile computing device may have an augmented reality application resident on the mobile computing device to allow a user to generate the augmented reality scenarios.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2014Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: Aurasma LimitedInventors: James Loxam, Sean Mark Blanchflower
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Patent number: 9323767Abstract: Systems and methods that allow for an intelligence platform for distributed processing of big data sets including both structured and unstructured data types across two or more intelligent data operation engine servers. The intelligent data operation engine servers can form a conceptual understanding of content in each electronic file and then cooperates with a distributed index handler to index the conceptual understanding of the electronic file. A query pipeline and the distributed index handler in the intelligence platform cooperate with the two or more intelligent data operation engine servers to improve scalability and performance on the big data sets containing both structured and un-structured electronic files represented in the common index.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2012Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: Longsand LimitedInventors: Sean Mark Blanchflower, Darren John Gallagher
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Patent number: 9292877Abstract: Methods for automatically recommending hash tags for use with comments generated by the comment authors comprise analyzing existing comments to determine reach and influence of authors of the existing comment, and hash tags and keywords that are included in the existing comments. The methods further comprise using the comment and linked content of links included in the existing comment to determine concept information associated with the existing comments, where the concept information is determined using a server computing system configured with an Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) application, and where the concept information, the reach and influence information, the keywords and the hash tags are stored in a hash tag database.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2011Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: Longsand LimitedInventors: Sean Mark Blanchflower, Simon Hayhurst
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Publication number: 20160028842Abstract: A downloadable reminder application uses object recognition technology to recognize one or more objects appearing on a display screen of the mobile computing device and matches them to a set of known target objects. The downloadable reminder application process any associated trigger conditions for the target object. The downloadable reminder application then sets the future reminder for the target object to activate. The downloadable reminder application when it detects that a mobile computing device is satisfying the trigger condition for a target object for which it has set a future reminder on, then the downloadable reminder application in the mobile computing device fires the future reminder that was set for that target object and provides the alert to the user along with any triggerable contributions associated with that target object.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2015Publication date: January 28, 2016Applicant: AUTONOMY CORPORATION LIMITEDInventors: Sean Mark BLANCHFLOWER, James LOXAM
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Publication number: 20160027221Abstract: According to an example, a computer may receive characteristics information of an object in a video stream captured by a first computing device, generate a signature based on the characteristics information, identify an augmented reality information associated with the signature, transmit the augmented reality information to the first computing device, receive, from a second computing device, a set of characteristics information of the object in an image captured by the second computing device, determine that the set of characteristics information from the second computing device has a second signature that matches the signature generated based on the characteristics information received form the first computing device, and transmit the identified augmented reality information to the second computing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2015Publication date: January 28, 2016Inventors: Sean Mark BLANCHFLOWER, Simon HAYHURST
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Publication number: 20160004928Abstract: At least a computer-implemented method and an apparatus for processing an image are described. In examples, numeric values for at least one property of the image are determined. These values are then converted into at least one corresponding text character, said conversion being independent of any text content within the image. This enables a text representation of the image to be generated that contains said plurality of text characters. This text representation may be used to index and search for the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2013Publication date: January 7, 2016Inventors: Sean Mark Blanchflower, Stephen Christopher Davis
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Publication number: 20150339839Abstract: According to an example, a computer may receive characteristics information of an object in a video stream captured by a first computing device, generate a signature based on the characteristics information, identify an augmented reality information associated with the signature, transmit the augmented reality information to the first computing device, receive, from a second computing device, a set of characteristics information of the object in an image captured by the second computing device, determine that the set of characteristics information from the second computing device has a second signature that matches the signature generated based on the characteristics information received form the first computing device, and transmit the identified augmented reality information to the second computing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2015Publication date: November 26, 2015Inventors: Sean Mark Blanchflower, Simon Hayhurst
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Patent number: 9183546Abstract: A downloadable reminder application uses object recognition technology to recognize one or more objects appearing on a display screen of the mobile computing device and matches them to a set of known target objects. The downloadable reminder application process any associated trigger conditions for the target object. The downloadable reminder application then sets the future reminder for the target object to activate. The downloadable reminder application when it detects that a mobile computing device is satisfying the trigger condition for a target object for which it has set a future reminder on, then the downloadable reminder application in the mobile computing device fires the future reminder that was set for that target object and provides the alert to the user along with any triggerable contributions associated with that target object.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2011Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Sean Mark Blanchflower, James Loxam
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Patent number: 9064326Abstract: An augmented reality application is coded to operate on a mobile computing device. A routine allocates a portion of a memory in the mobile computing to be a local cache for the downloadable application to store augmented reality content and information and characteristics concerning a plurality of real world trigger items. A space utilization algorithm and a content selection algorithm are incorporated into the augmented reality application. The amount and ways the real world trigger items and augmented reality content are stored is balanced against an amount of memory space set or allowed for a size of the local cache on that particular mobile computing device.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2012Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: Longsand LimitedInventors: James Loxam, Sean Mark Blanchflower
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Patent number: 9066200Abstract: The systems and methods allow users of mobile computing devices to generate augmented reality scenarios. Augmented reality content is paired with a real world trigger item to generate the augmented reality scenario. The augmented reality content is overlaid onto frames on a video when a trigger item is detected. Each mobile computing device may have an augmented reality application resident on the mobile computing device to allow a user to generate the augmented reality scenarios.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2012Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: Longsand LimitedInventors: James Loxam, Sean Mark Blanchflower
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System to augment a visual data stream based on a combination of geographical and visual information
Patent number: 8953054Abstract: According to an example, a computing device includes a memory on which is stored machine readable instructions that may cause a processor to access a video stream, generate geographical information associated with frames of the video stream, extract features of points of interest in the frames, transmit the extracted features of the points of interest and the geographical information to a server computer that is to use the extracted features of the points of interest and the geographical information to identify augment information, receive the augment information from the server computer, and augment the video stream with the augment information to generate an augmented video stream.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2013Date of Patent: February 10, 2015Assignee: Longsand LimitedInventors: Sean Mark Blanchflower, Michael Richard Lynch -
Publication number: 20140253743Abstract: The systems and methods allow users of mobile computing devices to generate augmented reality scenarios. Augmented reality content is paired with a real world trigger item to generate the augmented reality scenario. The augmented reality content is overlaid onto frames on a video when a trigger item is detected. Each mobile computing device may have an augmented reality application resident on the mobile computing device to allow a user to generate the augmented reality scenarios.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2014Publication date: September 11, 2014Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: James Loxam, Sean Mark Blanchflower
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Publication number: 20140225924Abstract: The systems and methods may allow mobile computing devices to identify real world trigger items and to cause augmented reality scenarios associated with a real world trigger item to be presented on a display of the mobile computing device. A lookup scheme may identify indexed feature points of known candidate trigger items stored in a database. A number of evaluations occur between the indexed feature points to the feature points found in the real world trigger item. A determination that the feature points of a candidate trigger item matches the feature points of the real world trigger item is made when a confidence threshold is met or exceeded based on at least the look up scheme, weighted factor evaluation, variable threshold evaluation and potentially a geometric consistency evaluation to declare a positive match.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2014Publication date: August 14, 2014Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: James Loxam, Sean Mark Blanchflower
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Publication number: 20140095505Abstract: Systems and methods that allow for an intelligence platform for distributed processing of big data sets including both structured and unstructured data types across two or more intelligent data operation engine servers. The intelligent data operation engine servers can form a conceptual understanding of content in each electronic file and then cooperates with a distributed index handler to index the conceptual understanding of the electronic file. A query pipeline and the distributed index handler in the intelligence platform cooperate with the two or more intelligent data operation engine servers to improve scalability and performance on the big data sets containing both structured and un-structured electronic files represented in the common index.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2012Publication date: April 3, 2014Applicant: LONGSAND LIMITEDInventors: Sean Mark Blanchflower, Darren John Gallagher
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SYSTEM TO AUGMENT A VISUAL DATA STREAM BASED ON A COMBINATION OF GEOGRAPHICAL AND VISUAL INFORMATION
Publication number: 20130307873Abstract: According to an example, a computing device includes a memory on which is stored machine readable instructions that may cause a processor to access a video stream, generate geographical information associated with frames of the video stream, extract features of points of interest in the frames, transmit the extracted features of the points of interest and the geographical information to a server computer that is to use the extracted features of the points of interest and the geographical information to identify augment information, receive the augment information from the server computer, and augment the video stream with the augment information to generate an augmented video stream.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2013Publication date: November 21, 2013Inventors: Sean Mark Blanchflower, Michael Richard Lynch -
Patent number: 8493353Abstract: A method for implementing shared experiences using mobile computing devices comprises capturing an image of a trigger along with background information associated with the trigger in a video frame using a video camera built into a first mobile computing device equipped with a display screen and a wireless communication module; identifying characteristics information of the trigger and the associated background information; transmitting the characteristics information of the trigger and the associated background information to a server computing device connected to a network using wireless communication; receiving an augmented reality corresponding to the characteristics information of the trigger and the associated background information from the server computing device; and presenting the augmented reality on the display screen of the first mobile computing device, wherein the augmented reality associated with the first mobile computing device is shared and time synchronized with an augmented reality previouType: GrantFiled: April 13, 2011Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: Longsand LimitedInventors: Sean Mark Blanchflower, Simon Hayhurst