Patents by Inventor Stephen Ley
Stephen Ley 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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Patent number: 11849252Abstract: This invention concerns a method of filming a subject to be projected as a Pepper's Ghost image. The method may comprise filming a subject under a lighting arrangement having one or more front lights for illuminating a front of a subject and one or more backlights. The lights may be controlled such that the total brightness of the one or more front lights, as measured of the subject, is less than or approximately the same as the total brightness of the one or more backlights, as measured at the subject. The subject may be located directly above one or more floor lights such the subject is illuminated from below by the one or more floor lights.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Holicom Film LimitedInventors: Stephen Ley, Ian Christopher O'Connell, Bruce Finn
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Publication number: 20230076734Abstract: This invention concerns a method of filming a subject to be projected as a Pepper's Ghost image. The method may comprise filming a subject under a lighting arrangement having one or more front lights for illuminating a front of a subject and one or more backlights. The lights may be controlled such that the total brightness of the one or more front lights, as measured of the subject, is less than or approximately the same as the total brightness of the one or more backlights, as measured at the subject. The subject may be located directly above one or more floor lights such the subject is illuminated from below by the one or more floor lights.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2022Publication date: March 9, 2023Inventors: Stephen Ley, Ian Christopher O'Connell, Bruce Finn
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Patent number: 11442339Abstract: This invention concerns a method of filming a subject to be projected as a Pepper's Ghost image. The method may comprise filming a subject under a lighting arrangement having one or more front lights for illuminating a front of a subject and one or more backlights. The lights may be controlled such that the total brightness of the one or more front lights, as measured of the subject, is less than or approximately the same as the total brightness of the one or more backlights, as measured at the subject. The subject may be located directly above one or more floor lights such the subject is illuminated from below by the one or more floor lights.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Inventors: Stephen Ley, Ian Christopher O'Connell, Bruce Finn
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Publication number: 20210103203Abstract: This invention concerns a method of filming a subject to be projected as a Pepper's Ghost image. The method may comprise filming a subject under a lighting arrangement having one or more front lights for illuminating a front of a subject and one or more backlights. The lights may be controlled such that the total brightness of the one or more front lights, as measured of the subject, is less than or approximately the same as the total brightness of the one or more backlights, as measured at the subject. The subject may be located directly above one or more floor lights such the subject is illuminated from below by the one or more floor lights.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2020Publication date: April 8, 2021Applicant: Holicom Film LimitedInventors: Stephen Ley, Ian Christopher O'Connell, Bruce Finn
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Patent number: 10961719Abstract: A decking clip to allow a plurality of decking members to be attached relative to a support assembly, the decking clip including an elongate plastic body strip having a body length, the body provided with a number of openings to receive fasteners there through to attach the body relative to the support assembly; a number of upstands spaced over the body length and extending substantially perpendicularly from the body strip, substantially transversely to the body length; each upstand having at least two opposed decking board engagement arms, a first decking board engagement arm extending from a first lateral side of each upstand at an acute angle and a second decking board engagement arm extending from a second lateral side of each upstand at an acute angle, each upstand and/or engagement arm being resiliently deformable to allow portion of a decking board to pass and to retain the decking board relative to the support assembly in a spaced apart, non-overlapping configuration.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2018Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: KLEVAKLIP SYSTEMS PTY LTD.Inventors: Greg James Doupe, Stephen Ley Sanders
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Patent number: 10718994Abstract: This invention concerns a method of filming a subject to be projected as a Pepper's Ghost image. The method may comprise filming a subject under a lighting arrangement having one or more front lights for illuminating a front of a subject and one or more backlights. The lights may be controlled such that the total brightness of the one or more front lights, as measured of the subject, is less than or approximately the same as the total brightness of the one or more backlights, as measured at the subject. The subject may be located directly above one or more floor lights such the subject is illuminated from below by the one or more floor lights.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2019Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: Holicom Film LimitedInventors: Stephen Ley, Ian Christopher O'Connell, Bruce Finn
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Patent number: 10577807Abstract: A decking clip to allow a plurality of decking members to be attached relative to a support assembly, the decking clip including an elongate plastic body strip having a body length, the body provided with a number of openings to receive fasteners there through to attach the body relative to the support assembly, a number of upstands spaced over the body length and extending substantially perpendicularly from the body strip, substantially transversely to the body length, each upstand having at least two opposed decking board engagement arms, a first decking board engagement arm extending from a first lateral side of the upstand at an acute angle and a second decking board engagement arm extending from a second lateral side of the upstand at an acute angle, at least two centering members, at least one centering member extending from the first lateral side of the upstand between the first decking board engagement arm and the body strip and at least one centering member extending from the second lateral side of tType: GrantFiled: October 29, 2018Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: KLEVAKLIP SYSTEMS PTY LTD.Inventors: Greg James Doupe, Stephen Ley Sanders
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Publication number: 20190294031Abstract: This invention concerns a method of filming a subject to be projected as a Pepper's Ghost image. The method may comprise filming a subject under a lighting arrangement having one or more front lights for illuminating a front of a subject and one or more backlights. The lights may be controlled such that the total brightness of the one or more front lights, as measured of the subject, is less than or approximately the same as the total brightness of the one or more backlights, as measured at the subject. The subject may be located directly above one or more floor lights such the subject is illuminated from below by the one or more floor lights.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2019Publication date: September 26, 2019Inventors: Stephen Ley, Ian Christopher O'Connell, Bruce Finn
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Patent number: 10317778Abstract: This invention concerns a method of filming a subjected to be projected as a Pepper's Ghost image. The method may comprise filming a subject under a lighting arrangement having one or more front lights for illuminating a front of a subject and one or more backlights. The lights may be controlled such that the total brightness of the one or more front lights, as measured of the subject, is less than or approximately the same as the total brightness of the one or more backlights, as measured at the subject. The subject may be located directly above one or more floor lights such the subject is illuminated from below by the one or more floor lights. The lights may comprise one or more LEDs. A drop-off distance of the front lights may be less than a distance between the front lights and a backscreen.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2015Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: Holicom Film LimitedInventors: Stephen Ley, Ian Christopher O'Connell, Bruce Finn
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Publication number: 20190136546Abstract: A decking clip to allow a plurality of decking members to be attached relative to a support assembly, the decking clip including an elongate plastic body strip having a body length, the body provided with a number of openings to receive fasteners there through to attach the body relative to the support assembly, a number of upstands spaced over the body length and extending substantially perpendicularly from the body strip, substantially transversely to the body length, each upstand having at least two opposed decking board engagement arms, a first decking board engagement arm extending from a first lateral side of the upstand at an acute angle and a second decking board engagement arm extending from a second lateral side of the upstand at an acute angle, at least two centering members, at least one centering member extending from the first lateral side of the upstand between the first decking board engagement arm and the body strip and at least one centering member extending from the second lateral side of tType: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2018Publication date: May 9, 2019Inventors: Greg James Doupe, Stephen Ley Sanders
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Publication number: 20180238060Abstract: A decking clip to allow a plurality of decking members to be attached relative to a support assembly, the decking clip including an elongate plastic body strip having a body length, the body provided with a number of openings to receive fasteners there through to attach the body relative to the support assembly; a number of upstands spaced over the body length and extending substantially perpendicularly from the body strip, substantially transversely to the body length; each upstand having at least two opposed decking board engagement arms, a first decking board engagement arm extending from a first lateral side of each upstand at an acute angle and a second decking board engagement arm extending from a second lateral side of each upstand at an acute angle, each upstand and/or engagement arm being resiliently deformable to allow portion of a decking board to pass and to retain the decking board relative to the support assembly in a spaced apart, non-overlapping configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2018Publication date: August 23, 2018Inventors: Greg James Doupe, Stephen Ley Sanders
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Patent number: 9874008Abstract: A non-metallic joist hanger including a substantially U-shaped receiving channel defined by a pair of spaced apart side wall flanges and a base wall to receive a portion of a joist, an attachment flange extending transversely from each of the spaced apart side walls to attach to a transverse beam, and an arcuate bracing structure extending between each side wall and the adjacent attachment flange.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2017Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: KLEVAKLIP SYSTEMS PTY LTD.Inventors: Greg James Doupe, Stephen Ley Sanders
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Publication number: 20170138039Abstract: A non-metallic joist hanger including a substantially U-shaped receiving channel defined by a pair of spaced apart side wall flanges and a base wall to receive a portion of a joist, an attachment flange extending transversely from each of the spaced apart side walls to attach to a transverse beam, and an arcuate bracing structure extending between each side wall and the adjacent attachment flange.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2017Publication date: May 18, 2017Inventors: Greg James Doupe, Stephen Ley Sanders
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Patent number: 9637911Abstract: A joist connector including a unitary body with a first channel defined by at least two spaced apart flanges and a second channel defined by at least two spaced apart flanges and offset from the first channel.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2015Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: KLEVAKLIP SYSTEMS PTY LTD.Inventors: Greg James Doupe, Stephen Ley Sanders
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Publication number: 20160002912Abstract: A joist connector including a unitary body with a first channel defined by at least two spaced apart flanges and a second channel defined by at least two spaced apart flanges and offset from the first channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2015Publication date: January 7, 2016Inventors: Greg James Doupe, Stephen Ley Sanders
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Publication number: 20150227028Abstract: This invention concerns a method of filming a subjected to be projected as a Pepper's Ghost image. The method may comprise filming a subject under a lighting arrangement having one or more front lights for illuminating a front of a subject and one or more backlights. The lights may be controlled such that the total brightness of the one or more front lights, as measured of the subject, is less than or approximately the same as the total brightness of the one or more backlights, as measured at the subject. The subject may be located directly above one or more floor lights such the subject is illuminated from below by the one or more floor lights. The lights may comprise one or more LEDs. A drop-off distance of the front lights may be less than a distance between the front lights and a backscreen.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2015Publication date: August 13, 2015Inventors: Stephen Ley, Ian Christopher O'Connell, Bruce Finn
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Patent number: 9033522Abstract: This invention concerns a method of filming a subjected to be projected as a Pepper's Ghost image. The method may comprise filming a subject under a lighting arrangement having one or more front lights for illuminating a front of a subject and one or more backlights. The lights may be controlled such that the total brightness of the one or more front lights, as measured of the subject, is less than or approximately the same as the total brightness of the one or more backlights, as measured at the subject. The subject may be located directly above one or more floor lights such the subject is illuminated from below by the one or more floor lights. The lights may comprise one or more LEDs. A drop-off distance of the front lights may be less than a distance between the front lights and a backscreen.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2009Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: HOLICOM FILM LIMITEDInventors: Stephen Ley, Ian Christopher O'Connell, Bruce Finn
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Patent number: 8978339Abstract: An adjustable joist hanger including a mounting foot having a substantially planar lower abutment surface, the mounting foot having at least one attachment opening to attach the mounting foot relative to a surface and at least one, at least partially threaded member extending therefrom, a substantially U-shaped joist carrier adapted to receive a portion of a joist and mounted for movement relative to the at least one, at least partially threaded member and an adjustment mechanism for adjusting the joist carrier relative to the mounting foot.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2013Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Klevaklip Systems Pty Ltd.Inventors: Greg James Doupe, Stephen Ley Sanders
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Publication number: 20140182236Abstract: An adjustable joist hanger including a mounting foot having a substantially planar lower abutment surface, the mounting foot having at least one attachment opening to attach the mounting foot relative to a surface and at least one, at least partially threaded member extending therefrom, a substantially U-shaped joist carrier adapted to receive a portion of a joist and mounted for movement relative to the at least one, at least partially threaded member and an adjustment mechanism for adjusting the joist carrier relative to the mounting foot.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2013Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: KLEVAKLIP SYSTEMS PTY LTDInventors: Greg James Doupe, Stephen Ley Sanders
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Publication number: 20110149248Abstract: This invention concerns a method of filming a subjected to be projected as a Pepper's Ghost image. The method may comprise filming a subject under a lighting arrangement having one or more front lights for illuminating a front of a subject and one or more backlights. The lights may be controlled such that the total brightness of the one or more front lights, as measured of the subject, is less than or approximately the same as the total brightness of the one or more backlights, as measured at the subject. The subject may be located directly above one or more floor lights such the subject is illuminated from below by the one or more floor lights. The lights may comprise one or more LEDs. A drop-off distance of the front lights may be less than a distance between the front lights and a backscreen.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2009Publication date: June 23, 2011Inventors: Stephen Ley, Ian Christopher O'connell, Bruce Finn