Patents by Inventor Vijay A

Vijay A 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).

  • Patent number: 9958285
    Abstract: An electronic device and method for capturing an image are disclosed. The electronic device includes an image sensor configured to capture images, a location sensor configured to detect a location of the electronic device, and a processor. The processor may execute the method, which includes capturing a first image, and detecting a first location where the first image is captured, detecting, by a processor, a second location at which a second image is to be captured and generating guidance information for travel to the second location, and when a present location is within a predefined range of the second location, automatically capturing the second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shin-Jun Lee, K Santle Camilus, Sumedh Mannar, Vijay A, Moo-Jung Kim, Amit Kumar, Sung-Dae Cho, Pankaj Kumar Bajpai, Piyush Gupta, Rahul Chouhan, Hyung-Suk Kim, Ki-Huk Lee
  • Publication number: 20180106370
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a prime mover in communication with an input shaft of a transmission, an output shaft of the transmission in communication with a final drive and drive wheels, a park actuator system internal to a housing of the transmission and a park control system mounted to an external surface of the housing of the transmission with a pivot shaft extending through the housing that connects to the park actuator system to selectively place the park actuator system in one of a park configuration and an out of park configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Vijay A. Neelakantan, Christopher G. Benson
  • Publication number: 20180100581
    Abstract: A transmission for a vehicle includes an electro-mechanical park actuator mechanism that provides motive force to an actuator rod of a park actuator, a default to park mechanism that is internal to the transmission housing, and an electromechanical park inhibit mechanism that is internal to the transmission housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Inventors: Vijay A. Neelakantan, Christopher G. Benson
  • Patent number: 9939077
    Abstract: A fluid circuit includes a device, a cooler, and a valve. The valve includes a housing, a sealing member, a biasing device, and an actuator. The sealing member moves inside the housing between a first position and a second position. The actuator includes a smart material that is activated when the temperature of a fluid inside the housing exhibiting at least a first temperature, causing the sealing member to move to the second position. The smart material is deactivated when the fluid is a sufficient number of degrees less than the first temperature, causing the sealing member to move to the first position. The fluid flows from the housing to the device and then to the housing when the sealing member is in the first position. The fluid flows from the housing to the cooler and then to the device when the sealing member is in the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignees: GM Global Technology Operations LLC, Dynalloy, Inc., Bend All Automotive, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiujie Gao, Nancy L. Johnson, Ronald R. Semel, Rory P. McIntyre, Mark J. Heikoop, Vijay A. Neelakantan, Bret M. Olson, Tyler P. Ownby, James H. Brown
  • Patent number: 9925810
    Abstract: A system and method for adding a print medium digitally to a print system are disclosed. The print system has a control unit for controlling a print job queue and print system parameters, a print engine, an input section, and a receiving section. The method includes receiving the print medium in the input section, loading a test job having prescribed print system parameters in the receiving section, printing a large number of prints of the test job to establish an unwanted deposit of marking material on the side of the stack, and establishing whether or not an unwanted marking material is deposited on a stack height side of the stack. If unwanted deposit is established, then printing a number of blank sheets of the same print medium, adjusting the print system parameters, and returning to printing. If no unwanted deposit is established, approving the use of the print medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: OCÉ-TECHNOLOGIES B.V.
    Inventors: Vijay A. Kalloe, Jeroen P. J. Huijbers, Ronnie J. H. G. Berghs, Wilhelmus M. Van Herpen
  • Publication number: 20180058601
    Abstract: A fluid circuit includes a device, a cooler, and a valve. The valve includes a housing, a sealing member, a biasing device, and an actuator. The sealing member moves inside the housing between a first position and a second position. The actuator includes a smart material that is activated when the temperature of a fluid inside the housing exhibiting at least a first temperature, causing the sealing member to move to the second position. The smart material is deactivated when the fluid is a sufficient number of degrees less than the first temperature, causing the sealing member to move to the first position. The fluid flows from the housing to the device and then to the housing when the sealing member is in the first position. The fluid flows from the housing to the cooler and then to the device when the sealing member is in the second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Applicants: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC, BEND ALL AUTOMOTIVE INC, DYNALLOY, INC.
    Inventors: Xiujie Gao, Nancy L. Johnson, Ronald R. Semel, Rory P. McIntyre, Mark J. Heikoop, Vijay A. Neelakantan, Bret M. Olson, Tyler P. Ownby, James H. Brown
  • Publication number: 20180058600
    Abstract: A fluid circuit includes a device, a cooler, and a valve. The valve includes a housing, a sealing member, a biasing device, and an actuator. The sealing member moves inside the housing between a first position and a second position. The actuator includes a smart material that is activated when the temperature of a fluid inside the housing exhibiting at least a first temperature, causing the sealing member to move to the second position. The smart material is deactivated when the fluid is a sufficient number of degrees less than the first temperature, causing the sealing member to move to the first position. The fluid flows from the housing to the device and then to the housing when the sealing member is in the first position. The fluid flows from the housing to the cooler and then to the device when the sealing member is in the second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Applicants: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC, DYNALLOY, INC.
    Inventors: Xiujie Gao, Nancy L. Johnson, Bret M. Olson, Vijay A. Neelakantan, Tyler P. Ownby, James H. Brown
  • Patent number: 9888394
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, at route recommendation server device, travel data associated with a plurality of mobile devices. The method includes indexing segments of a plurality of routes based on a corresponding number of users of each of the plurality of segments, and receiving a recommendation request from a particular mobile device. The recommendation request includes a starting point and a destination for a trip. The method also includes identifying a plurality of routes between the starting point and the destination based on the travel data, and providing at least one recommendation for a recommended route based on a relative popularity of the recommended route among a number of users that use each of the plurality of routes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Sridevi Rajendran, Prabhu V. Mohan, Vijay A. Senthil, Vinodkrishnan Surianarayanan, Ramya Sundarraman, Rajasundaram Ganesan
  • Publication number: 20180023635
    Abstract: A clutch assembly having a first clutch member, a second clutch member axially slidable in a first axial direction to engage the first clutch member and in a second axial direction to disengage from the first clutch member, a spring biasing the second clutch member in one of the axial directions, a piston actuatable to move the second clutch member in the other of the axial directions, thereby overcoming a biasing force of the spring, and a latching device to selectively lock the piston in at least one of the first axial direction and second axial direction. The latching device includes a selectively retractable locking pin. The piston has an external surface defining a slot to receive the locking pin, thereby locking the piston in the first position or the second position. A method of operating the clutch assembly is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Vijay A. Neelakantan, Joseph R. Littlefield, Lawrence A. Kaminsky
  • Patent number: 9858020
    Abstract: The invention relates to a printing system for printing a plurality of print jobs, the printing system having a receiving unit for receiving the print jobs, a controller for controlling a scheduling process and a printing process of the print jobs, a print unit for printing the print jobs, a plurality of supply holders for holding supply material for printing, and a user interface for communicating to the operator scheduled supply operator actions. Each of the scheduled supply operator actions is linked to one of the plurality of supply holders. The controller has an establishing unit for establishing a time period of unattended printing of the printing system, and a determination unit for determining scheduled supply operator actions per holder needed to be done before the time period of unattended printing starts. The user interface displays the established time period of unattended printing and the determined supply operator actions per holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: OCÉ-TECHNOLOGIES B.V.
    Inventors: Jurgen Westerhoff, Antonius M. Gerrits, Vijay A. Kalloe
  • Patent number: 9858159
    Abstract: The present information processing apparatus executes fault-tolerant distributed computing through a network and the information processing apparatus comprises: a finish initiator that creates a finish state on a home node; an activity creator that instructs to create at least one activity on a remote node; an activity launcher that allows to store in a resilient store a value indicating that at least one live activity is present on the remote node; an activity closer that decreases the number in the local memory when the living activity is completed and resets the value in the resilient store to indicate that no live activity is present on the remote node; and a finish closer that closes the finish state when the value stored in the resilient store indicates an absence of remote nodes having at least one live activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kiyokuni Kawachiya, Vijay A. Saraswat
  • Patent number: 9856931
    Abstract: A hydraulic control system includes a hydraulic pump driven by an electric motor, a solenoid valve having an output that controls the positions of a pressure regulator valve and a third, stator shift valve. The solenoid valve is a normally high, variable force solenoid valve which provides a control signal to the second and third valves. The second, pressure regulator valve is a multiple port valve which controls hydraulic fluid flow both to a transmission oil cooler (ATOC) and to an exhaust port, thereby maintaining a desired system pressure. The third, stator shift valve is also a multiple port valve and it controls fluid flow to the stator of the electric pump motor to provide cooling and to a dog clutch of the transmission to disengage it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Vijay A. Neelakantan, Ajit Singh Grewal
  • Publication number: 20170356327
    Abstract: A strategy for controlling an electric pump and control valve in an internal combustion engine cooling system compensates for backpressure variations and maintains system operation within design parameters. The method comprises the steps of measuring the coolant temperature, measuring the electrical current and voltage to the pump motor, determining the pump speed and coolant flow, determining the desired coolant flow, determining a negative correction to the flow control valve and pump if desired flow is less than present coolant flow and determining a positive correction to the flow control valve and pump if desired flow is more than present coolant flow and undertaking this correction to coolant flow. Thus, based upon inferred back pressure in the engine coolant system from the data relating to the pump energy input, proper coolant flow, heat rejection and engine operating temperature can be maintained in spite of variations in system flow restrictions and backpressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventors: Eugene V. Gonze, Sergio Quelhas, Vijay A. Ramappan, Michael J. Paratore, JR.
  • Publication number: 20170302648
    Abstract: A picture password interface is displayed to generate a password for a web service that accepts text passwords to help users more easily remember their passwords. In response to receiving user input at a picture displayed in the picture password interface, values from an associated cipher key are identified. These identified values are then combined into a user key based on an order and location at which the user input was received. The user key is then combined with a web service key to generate a password that is specific to the user and specific to the web service that the user is attempting to access. The generated password can be verified to ensure that it complies with any password complexity rules for the web service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Reza Ferrydiansyah, Vijay A. Halepet, Mythili Muruganathan, Mostafa Mostafa
  • Publication number: 20170300272
    Abstract: A print job processing system includes a printer; a user interface; a job file receiving section; and a media management system adapted to extract media specifications from a received job file and check the media specifications for compatibility with properties and/or a current status of the printer. The media management system is adapted to check whether essential media specifications are defined in the job file or not and, when they are not defined, to invite the user via the user interface to complete the specifications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Applicant: Océ-Technologies B.V.
    Inventors: Vijay A. KALLOE, Paul A.H. DEKKERS, Josephus A.M. VAN DUN
  • Publication number: 20170278482
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for dynamically reducing bandwidth usage by embedded displays are disclosed. An example method includes receiving a request to display a frame associated with a pixel depth on a display of a computing device, determining whether the frame includes a background layer, and when the frame includes the background layer, adjusting the pixel depth of the background layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2016
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventors: Vijay A. Purushothaman, Mahesh Kumar, Vandana Kannan
  • Patent number: 9772033
    Abstract: A hydraulic control system for a transmission is provided. The hydraulic control system includes a source of pressurized hydraulic fluid that communicates with an electronic transmission range selection (ETRS) subsystem. In one example, the ETRS subsystem includes an ETRS control valve, a park servo that controls a park mechanism, a plurality of solenoids, and a park inhibit solenoid assembly. In another example, the ETRS subsystem includes an ETRS control valve, an ETRS enable valve, a park servo that controls a park mechanism, a plurality of solenoids, and a park inhibit solenoid assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Joshua J. McDonough, Philip C. Lundberg, Vijay A. Neelakantan
  • Publication number: 20170248178
    Abstract: A hydraulic control system includes a hydraulic pump driven by an electric motor, a solenoid valve having an output that controls the positions of a pressure regulator valve and a third, stator shift valve. The solenoid valve is a normally high, variable force solenoid valve which provides a control signal to the second and third valves. The second, pressure regulator valve is a multiple port valve which controls hydraulic fluid flow both to a transmission oil cooler (ATOC) and to an exhaust port, thereby maintaining a desired system pressure. The third, stator shift valve is also a multiple port valve and it controls fluid flow to the stator of the electric pump motor to provide cooling and to a dog clutch of the transmission to disengage it.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Inventors: Vijay A. Neelakantan, Ajit Singh Grewal
  • Patent number: 9699628
    Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium provide to determine whether a user of the user device is being transported by a vehicle; determine whether any of multiple events pertaining to a message application is detected in response to a determination that the user is being transported by the vehicle; obtain input characteristic data attributed to the user in response to a determination that any of the multiple events is detected; determine whether the user is a driver of the vehicle based on the input characteristic data; and block receipt of an inbound message and a creation of an outbound message in response to a determination that the user is the driver of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Vijayan Radhakrishnan, Sridevi Rajendran, Vijay A. Senthil, Vinodkrishnan Surianarayanan, Parthasarathi Kathiresan, Rajasundaram Ganesan, SriKamal Boyina, Anand Chandrasekar, Ramya Sundarraman, Prabhu V. Mohan
  • Patent number: 9688257
    Abstract: A hydraulic control system for a transmission includes a source of pressurized hydraulic fluid, a park servo connected to a park mechanism, the park servo having a park side, an out-of-park side, and a biasing member disposed on the park side. A first valve assembly includes a first inlet port in fluid communication with the source of pressurized hydraulic fluid, a first outlet port, and a first valve for selectively allowing fluid communication between the first inlet port and the first outlet port. A second valve assembly includes a second inlet port in direct fluid communication downstream of the first valve assembly, a second outlet port in direct fluid communication with the out-of-park side of the park servo, and a second valve moveable between an out-of-park position and a park position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Vijay A. Neelakantan, Joshua McDonough, Matthew R. Knoth, Philip C Lundberg