Patents by Inventor Stephen Cheatle

Stephen Cheatle 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: 20070030363
    Abstract: A method for generating an image sequence using an image capture device, the method comprising using image data generated using the device and representative of an existing image of a sequence to assist a user of the device to capture one or more subsequent images for the sequence in order that said existing and the or each subsequent image are captured at substantially the same location and device orientation, and an image capture device operable to assist a user in generating an image sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2006
    Publication date: February 8, 2007
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Stephen Cheatle, Andrew Hunter
  • Publication number: 20060257048
    Abstract: A method and system for automatically producing a page using frames of a video stream. A plurality of video frames from a video stream or clip are read, and multiple frames are extracted from the video stream, based on the content of each frame. Frames which neighbor the extracted frames in the video stream are also extracted, with the number of neighboring frames to be extracted being controlled by parameters provided to the page production system. The resolution of the images in the extracted video frames is enhanced, based on the information in each extracted frame and each respective extracted neighboring frame. The enhanced images are automatically cropped to enhance the important features in each image, and the cropped images are composed into one or more pages that are representative of the content of the video stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2005
    Publication date: November 16, 2006
    Inventors: Xiaofan Lin, Tong Zhang, C. Atkins, Gary Vondran, Mei Chen, Charles Untulis, Stephen Cheatle, Dominic Lee
  • Publication number: 20060103731
    Abstract: A method of processing image data representing a captured image, the data generated using an image capture element of an image capture device, the method comprising generating state data representing at least one characteristic of motion of the image capture device and a status of at least one setting of the device during a predetermined time period, and processing the image data on the basis of the state data in order to provide a measure of the accuracy of framing of the captured image within a field of view of the device, and corresponding apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2005
    Publication date: May 18, 2006
    Inventors: Maurizio Pilu, Stephen Cheatle
  • Publication number: 20050206720
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide a system and method for producing an edited video signal from a plurality of cameras. Briefly described, one embodiment is a method that produces an edited video signal from a plurality of cameras wherein at least the imaging lens of each of the camera being held or worn by a respective one of a plurality of participants simultaneously present at a site, comprising receiving contemporaneous audio streams from at least two participants, selectively deriving from the audio streams a single audio output signal according to a predetermined first set of one or more criteria, receiving contemporaneous video streams from at least two of the cameras, and deriving from the video streams a single video output signal according to a predetermined second set of one or more criteria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2004
    Publication date: September 22, 2005
    Inventors: Stephen Cheatle, David Grosvenor
  • Publication number: 20050185070
    Abstract: An image capture device having a panorama mode for processing images captured using a panoramic sweep of the device, in which mode an extent of a capturable image presented for viewing by a user is limited laterally of an axis of intended sweep.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2005
    Publication date: August 25, 2005
    Inventor: Stephen Cheatle
  • Publication number: 20050141859
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide a system and method for editing of recorded media. Briefly described, one embodiment is a method comprising method comprising receiving an image signal captured by an image capture device, the image signal comprising a plurality of saliency values and a plurality of images, each of the images associated with one of the saliency values and the saliency values corresponding to at least one characteristic of the captured images; receiving specification of an overall duration of a programme; and generating an editing signal indicative of the specified overall duration of the programme and to the plurality of saliency values such that the generated editing signal corresponds to a plurality of portions of the image programme having saliency values at least equal to a threshold, the corresponding portions being determined so that the total duration of the programme corresponds to the specified overall duration of the programme when durations of the indicative portions are summed together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2004
    Publication date: June 30, 2005
    Inventor: Stephen Cheatle
  • Publication number: 20050047683
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a system and method for generating images of a document with interaction of a primary user with the document in an interaction session. Briefly described, one embodiment comprises an image capture means adapted to capture an initial image of the document without interaction by a user and to subsequently capture at least one additional image of the document during an interaction session including interaction from the user during that session, and a processing means adapted to generate a data set representing the interaction session from the initial image and the additional image, the data set containing at least the initial image along with information indicative of the interaction of the user during the session obtained from the additional image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2004
    Publication date: March 3, 2005
    Inventors: Stephen Pollard, Stephen Cheatle, David Grosvenor
  • Publication number: 20050004496
    Abstract: An attention detection system detects a condition of shared attention of plural persons. The system includes plural body language detectors each associated with a different person for detecting body language of the associated person. An analyzer receives body language information from the body language detectors, analyzes the body language of the persons and determines when said body language information indicates shared attention between the persons. The attention detection system generates a signal that captures an image of the shared attention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2004
    Publication date: January 6, 2005
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Maurizio Pilu, Stephen Cheatle, David Grosvenor