Patents by Inventor Steven L. Horowitz

Steven L. Horowitz 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: 20150371613
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments relate to methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media storing instructions for providing frames for rendering on a display, the frames including a first frame comprising first pixel data, a second frame comprising second pixel data, and a third frame comprising third pixel data, the first pixel data comprising input values for color components including a first input value, the second pixel data comprising a second input value, and the third pixel data comprising a third input value. An exemplary method comprises determining the second input value such that a second output luminance corresponds to the minimum of double a first output luminance and a maximum output luminance, determining the third input value such that a third output luminance corresponds to double the first output luminance minus the second output luminance, and providing the second frame and the third frame for rendering on a display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Satyadev Rajesh Patel, Michael Charles Raley, Steven L. Horowitz, Shaul Teplinsky
  • Patent number: 8316300
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for presenting an embedded visual media player included in a web page in a floating mode is disclosed herein. The status of the embedded visual media player and/or the position of the embedded visual media player relative to the current viewable area of a window are monitored to initiate the floating mode. The floating mode keeps the embedded visual media player within the viewable area while the web page is scrolled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Tomi J. Blinnikka, Steven L. Horowitz
  • Publication number: 20110119586
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for presenting an embedded visual media player included in a web page in a floating mode is disclosed herein. The status of the embedded visual media player and/or the position of the embedded visual media player relative to the current viewable area of a window are monitored to initiate the floating mode. The floating mode keeps the embedded visual media player within the viewable area while the web page is scrolled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Publication date: May 19, 2011
    Inventors: Tomi. J. Blinnikka, Steven L. Horowitz
  • Patent number: 7877687
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for presenting an embedded visual media player included in a web page in a floating mode is disclosed herein. The status of the embedded visual media player and/or the position of the embedded visual media player relative to the current viewable area of a window are monitored to initiate the floating mode. The floating mode keeps the embedded visual media player within the viewable area while the web page is scrolled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2011
    Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.
    Inventors: Tomi J. Blinnikka, Steven L. Horowitz
  • Publication number: 20090049385
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for presenting an embedded visual media player included in a web page in a floating mode is disclosed herein. The status of the embedded visual media player and/or the position of the embedded visual media player relative to the current viewable area of a window are monitored to initiate the floating mode. The floating mode keeps the embedded visual media player within the viewable area while the web page is scrolled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2007
    Publication date: February 19, 2009
    Applicant: YAHOO! Inc.
    Inventors: Tomi J. Blinnikka, Steven L. Horowitz
  • Patent number: 4989257
    Abstract: A system extracts a set of size invariant, rotation invariant features from pixel data of a character and sends the set of features to a statistical decision tree to effectuate automatic recognition of a character. The set of extracted features includes a group of features that is extracted by dividing a circle bounding the character into eight rings and 24 slices and counting the number of character pixels contained in each ring and in each slice. Various Fourier transforms, autocorrelations, moment calculations, and sorting operations are performed on many of the aforementioned arrays to yield further size and orientation invariant features. The distance between the centroid of the largest hole of the character and the center of the character is computed. The ratios of the perimeters of first and second holes of the character to the outer perimeter are computed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 29, 1991
    Assignee: GTX Corporation
    Inventor: Steven L. Horowitz
  • Patent number: 4802230
    Abstract: A system extracts a set of size invariant, rotation invariant features from pixel data of a character and sends the set of features to a statistical decision tree to effectuate automatic recognition of a character. The set of extracted features includes a first group obtained by generating arrays representable as dimensions and other geometric qualities of six minimum bounding rectangles rotated about the character, including the distances between the center points of the rotated bounding rectangles. A second group of features is extracted by generating a group of arrays representing the perimeter pixel locations, radii lengths, and direction codes. The arrays of that group are "resampled" to generate corresponding 64 point arrays. The resampled array of direction codes is smoothed and incremental direction codes are computed and compared to preselected thresholds to obtain features that indicate prominent convex and concave portions of the character.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 31, 1989
    Assignee: GTX Corporation
    Inventor: Steven L. Horowitz