Patents by Inventor Vaughn Allen

Vaughn Allen 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: 20090083005
    Abstract: A geospatial modeling system may include a geospatial model data storage device and a processor. The processor may cooperate with the geospatial model data storage device for selecting and transforming a reference sample of a geospatial model frequency domain data set into a corresponding reference sample geospatial model spatial domain data set, and inpainting data into at least one void of the geospatial model frequency domain data set based upon an initial selected inpainting function from among a plurality of different inpainting functions. The processor may further select and transform a test sample of the inpainted geospatial model frequency domain data set into a corresponding test sample geospatial model spatial domain data set, and compare the reference sample geospatial model spatial domain data set and the test sample geospatial model spatial domain data set to determine whether to repeat the inpainting using a different inpainting function from among the plurality thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2007
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Applicant: Harris Corporation
    Inventors: Josef De Vaughn Allen, Mark Rahmes, Gnana Bhaskar Tenali, Emile Ganthier
  • Publication number: 20090083012
    Abstract: A geospatial modeling system may include a geospatial model data storage device and a processor. The processor may cooperate with the geospatial model data storage device for wavelet decomposing at least one geospatial model frequency domain data set having at least one void therein to define a plurality of scaled versions of the geospatial model frequency domain data set. Moreover, the processor may further cooperate with the geospatial model data storage device for inpainting data into the at least one void to define a plurality of inpainted scaled versions of the geospatial model frequency domain data set, and reconstructing the plurality of inpainted scaled versions of the geospatial model frequency domain data set into a reconstructed geospatial model frequency domain data set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2007
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Applicant: Harris Corporation
    Inventors: Josef De Vaughn Allen, Mark Rahmes, Gnana Bhaskar Tenali, Emile Ganthier
  • Publication number: 20090083291
    Abstract: A geospatial modeling system may include a geospatial model data storage device, and a processor. The processor may cooperate with the geospatial model data storage device for windowing geospatial model spatial domain data to define a plurality of windowed geospatial model spatial domain data sets, and transforming the plurality of windowed geospatial model spatial domain data sets to define a plurality of corresponding geospatial model frequency domain data sets, each having at least one void therein. The processor may further cooperate with the geospatial model data storage device for inpainting data into the at least one void of each geospatial model frequency domain data set to define a plurality of inpainted geospatial model frequency domain data sets, and reconstructing the plurality of inpainted geospatial model frequency domain data sets into an overall geospatial model frequency domain data set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2007
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Applicant: Harris Corporation
    Inventors: Josef De Vaughn Allen, Mark Rahmes, Gnana Bhaskar Tenali, Emile Ganthier
  • Publication number: 20090083008
    Abstract: A geospatial modeling system may include a geospatial model data storage device and a processor. The processor may cooperate with the geospatial model data storage device for selecting and transforming a reference sample of a geospatial model frequency domain data set into a corresponding reference sample geospatial model spatial domain data set, where the geospatial model frequency domain data set has at least one void therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2007
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Applicant: Harris Corporation
    Inventors: Josef De Vaughn Allen, Mark Rahmes, Gnana Bhaskar Tenali, Emile Ganthier, Edward R. Beadle
  • Patent number: 6645605
    Abstract: Novel materials for making low ignition propensity products are disclosed. Specifically, a treated cigarette paper for making low ignition propensity cigarettes are disclosed. The cigarette base paper containing a thermoplastic polymer aqueous suspension coated regions on a surface of the base paper so as to obtain coresta porosities of less than 15 is provided. This cigarette paper is further treated with a conditioning medium which is either water alone or water with a burning chemical such as an alkali metal containing organic salt either on the same surface bearing the thermoplastic polymer or on the opposite surface. The self-extinction characteristics of the cigarettes with the treated paper are improved. A method for making a cigarette paper for low ignition propensity cigarettes comprising a plurality of regions of a thermoplastic polymer aqueous suspension printed on to a surface of a base paper is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2003
    Inventors: James Rodney Hammersmith, Vaughn Allen Bryson
  • Publication number: 20020129824
    Abstract: Novel materials for making low ignition propensity products are disclosed. Specifically, a treated cigarette paper for making low ignition propensity cigarettes are disclosed. The cigarette base paper containing a thermoplastic polymer aqueous suspension coated regions on a surface of the base paper so as to obtain coresta porosities of less than 15 is provided. This cigarette paper is further treated with a conditioning medium which is either water alone or water with a burning chemical such as an alkali metal containing organic salt either on the same surface bearing the thermoplastic polymer or on the opposite surface. The self-extinction characteristics of the cigarettes with the treated paper are improved. A method for making a cigarette paper for low ignition propensity cigarettes comprising a plurality of regions of a thermoplastic polymer aqueous suspension printed on to a surface of a base paper is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2001
    Publication date: September 19, 2002
    Inventors: James Rodney Hammersmith, Vaughn Allen Bryson