Patents by Inventor Stephen Barone

Stephen Barone 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).

  • Publication number: 20230377015
    Abstract: The embodiments disclose an apparatus including a system and method for displaying wheel styles and artwork on vehicles to allow customers to make an informed purchasing decision at the dealer location regarding different wheel styles or paint colors and paint pattern artwork choices to purchase for their vehicle. This system and method enables a sales person to show a customer a variety of wheel styles, tires, paint colors, paint patterns and various decorations, such as pinstriping, will look on the customers actual vehicle by holograph or conventional projection of the products displayed on the vehicle. Purchasers can also use a smartphone mobile application to superimpose products onto a photo of their vehicle on a smartphone display screen or view images in combination with a smartphone projector or virtual reality headset 3D viewer and their smartphone to get a complete 3D view of the product choices that the user can make for their vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventor: Stephen Barone
  • Patent number: 11715142
    Abstract: The embodiments disclose an apparatus including a system and method for displaying wheel styles and artwork on vehicles to allow customers to make an informed purchasing decision at the dealer location regarding different wheel styles or paint colors and paint pattern artwork choices to purchase for their vehicle. This system and method enables a sales person to show a customer a variety of wheel styles, tires, paint colors, paint patterns and various decorations, such as pinstriping, will look on the customers actual vehicle by holograph or conventional projection of the products displayed on the vehicle. Purchasers can also use a smartphone mobile application to superimpose products onto a photo of their vehicle on a smartphone display screen or view images in combination with a smartphone projector or virtual reality headset 3D viewer and their smartphone to get a complete 3D view of the product choices that the user can make for their vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Inventor: Stephen Barone
  • Publication number: 20210334870
    Abstract: The embodiments disclose an apparatus including a system and method for displaying wheel styles and artwork on vehicles to allow customers to make an informed purchasing decision at the dealer location regarding different wheel styles or paint colors and paint pattern artwork choices to purchase for their vehicle. This system and method enables a sales person to show a customer a variety of wheel styles, tires, paint colors, paint patterns and various decorations, such as pinstriping, will look on the customers actual vehicle by holograph or conventional projection of the products displayed on the vehicle. Purchasers can also use a smartphone mobile application to superimpose products onto a photo of their vehicle on a smartphone display screen or view images in combination with a smartphone projector or virtual reality headset 3D viewer and their smartphone to get a complete 3D view of the product choices that the user can make for their vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventor: Stephen Barone
  • Publication number: 20200034904
    Abstract: Provided is a system and method for displaying wheel styles and artwork on vehicles to allow customers to make an informed purchasing decision at the dealer location regarding different wheel styles or paint colors and paint pattern artwork choices to purchase for their vehicle. This system and method enables a sales person to show a customer a variety of wheel styles, tires, paint colors, paint patterns and various decorations, such as pinstriping, will look on the customers actual vehicle by holograph or conventional projection of the products displayed on the vehicle. Purchasers can also use a smartphone mobile application to superimpose products onto a photo of their vehicle on a smartphone display screen or view images in combination with a smartphone projector or virtual reality headset 3D viewer and their smartphone to get a complete 3D view of the product choices that the user can make for their vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventor: Stephen Barone
  • Patent number: 7053374
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for improving the sensitivity, angular resolution and range of motion detectors, occupancy sensors and similar systems. Specifically, an improved infrared input section is described which employs at least one additional lens, possibly segmented, before a lens array. This pre-focusing lens collects incident infrared radiation over the entire entrance aperture and partially focuses it onto one element of the lens array. The final lens array which focuses the radiation onto a detector may be an array of Fresnel lenses as in the prior art, an array of microlenses or a diffractive optics array. It is also possible to implement this system is such a way that moving infrared sources at any angular orientation will be detected as opposed to prior art systems in which only sources which cross the planes separating an array of angular sectors are detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Electro-Optic Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Barone
  • Patent number: 6921900
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for improving the sensitivity, angular resolution and range of motion detectors, occupancy sensors and similar systems are described. Specifically, an improved infrared input and detection section is described which utilizes two dual-detectors configured to optimally operate equivalent to a single quad-detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2005
    Assignee: Electro-Optic Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Barone
  • Publication number: 20050045826
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus are disclosed for improving the sensitivity, angular resolution and range of motion detectors, occupancy sensors and similar systems. Specifically, an improved infrared input section is described which employs at least one additional lens, possibly segmented, before a lens array. This pre-focusing lens collects incident infrared radiation over the entire entrance aperture and partially focuses it onto one element of the lens array. The final lens array which focuses the radiation onto a detector may be an array of Fresnel lenses as in the prior art, an array of microlenses or a diffractive optics array. It is also possible to implement this system is such a way that moving infrared sources at any angular orientation will be detected as opposed to prior art systems in which only sources which cross the planes separating an array of angular sectors are detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2003
    Publication date: March 3, 2005
    Inventor: Stephen Barone
  • Publication number: 20050041307
    Abstract: Directed Fresnel lenses provide an angular field of view centered on any direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2004
    Publication date: February 24, 2005
    Inventor: Stephen Barone
  • Publication number: 20040245472
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for improving the sensitivity, angular resolution and range of motion detectors, occupancy sensors and similar systems are described. Specifically, an improved infrared input and detection section is described which utilizes two dual-detectors configured to optimally operate equivalent to a single quad-detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2004
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Inventor: Stephen Barone
  • Patent number: 6756595
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for improving the sensitivity, angular resolution and range of motion detectors, occupancy sensors and similar systems are described. Specifically, an improved infrared input and detection section is described which utilizes two dual-detectors configured to optimally operate equivalent to a single quad-detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2004
    Assignee: Electro-Optic Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Barone
  • Patent number: 6690018
    Abstract: Apparatus for improving the sensitivity, angular resolution and range of motion detectors, occupancy sensors and similar systems include an improved infrared input section which employs at least one additional lens, possibly segmented, before a lens array. This pre-focusing lens collects and at least partially focuses incident infrared radiation onto at least one element of the lens array. The lens array focuses the radiation onto a detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: Electro-Optic Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Barone
  • Publication number: 20030015233
    Abstract: A solar concentrator system includes a collector lens for collecting and at least partially focusing incident solar rays, a solar cell and a lens array positioned generally between the collector lens and the solar cell, the lens array directing the partially focused rays emerging from the collector lens onto the solar cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2002
    Publication date: January 23, 2003
    Inventor: Stephen Barone
  • Publication number: 20020063217
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for improving the sensitivity, angular resolution and range of motion detectors, occupancy sensors and similar systems are described. Specifically, an improved infrared input and detection section is described which utilizes two dual-detectors configured to optimally operate equivalent to a single quad-detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2001
    Publication date: May 30, 2002
    Inventor: Stephen Barone
  • Patent number: 6331964
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus is disclosed for controlling electrical loads as a function of displacement detection of objects within a monitored zone by utilizing the non-Doppler shifted component of an electromagnetic, acoustic, microwave, infrared, or optical field. In the case of an ultrasonic field, a transmitter generates an ultrasonic transmission frequency into a zone to be monitored. Information is extracted from the spatial and temporal variation of the amplitude and/or phase of the total ultrasonic field at the original (i.e. non-Doppler shifted) frequency of transmission. At a detection stage, after filtering all Doppler returns, the signal received from each of a plurality of receivers/transducers, if not already digital, is digitized and passed to a gate array, microprocessor, or similar processing means where amplitude and/or phase changes are demodulated to control one or more electrical loads, for example, lighting, alarms, A/C according to an embedded algorithm within the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2001
    Inventor: Stephen Barone
  • Patent number: 6239437
    Abstract: A passive infrared detection system which has a wide angular field of view and a flat or nearly flat front surface. Input optical elements direct and/or focus incident peripheral infrared radiation onto one or more internal Fresnel lens arrays and/or a sensitive area of a detector, including radiation having incident angles of less than about 30°. Because of the absence of protruding elements improved performance and greater functionality can be obtained by employing larger or multiple infrared input windows and/or opto-electronic sections without degrading the aesthetic appearance of the unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2001
    Assignee: Electro-Optic Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Barone
  • Patent number: D502930
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2005
    Assignee: Electro-Optic Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Barone
  • Patent number: D503387
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2005
    Assignee: Electro-Optic Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Barone
  • Patent number: D505119
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2005
    Assignee: Electro-Optic Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Barone
  • Patent number: D472525
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Inventor: Stephen Barone
  • Patent number: D499703
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2004
    Assignee: Electro-Optic Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Barone