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Alan Joseph Senior, San Diego, CA US
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20080266366 | WASTE INK COLLECTION SYSTEM - An ink collection system includes at least one target surface and a fluid supply system in communication with the at least one target surface. The fluid supply system is configured to create a film of fluid across at least a portion of the at least one target surface, and wherein the film of fluid flushes away ink that impinges on the at least one target surface. | 10-30-2008 |
Andrew Senior, New York, NY US
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20130158977 | System and Method for Evaluating Speech Exposure - Systems and methods are provided for detecting and analyzing speech spoken in the vicinity of a user. The detected speech may be analyzed to determine the quality, volume, complexity, language, and other attributes. A value metric may be calculated for the received speech, such as to inform parents of a child's progress related to learning to speak, or to provide feedback to a foreign language learner. A corresponding device may display the number of words, the value metric, or other information about speech received by the device. | 06-20-2013 |
Andrew William Senior, New York, NY US
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20080205703 | Methods and Apparatus for Automatically Tracking Moving Entities Entering and Exiting a Specified Region - Techniques for tracking entities using a single overhead camera are provided. A foreground region is detected in a video frame of the single overhead camera corresponding to one or more entities. It is determined if the foreground region is associated with an existing tracker. It is determined whether the detected foreground region is the result of at least one of a merger of two or more smaller foreground regions having corresponding existing trackers and a split of a larger foreground region having a corresponding existing tracker when the detected foreground region is not associated with an existing tracker. The detected foreground region is tracked via at least one existing tracker when the foreground region is associated with an existing tracker or the foreground region is the result of at least one of a merger and a split. | 08-28-2008 |
20080252727 | PEOPLE SEARCHES BY MULTISENSOR EVENT CORRELATION - A data indexing system and method includes acquiring activity data in a context and indexing the activity data in accordance with contextual conditions. The activity data is stored in accordance with indices. An event is correlated with the activity data by using the indices to review the activity data in the context. | 10-16-2008 |
20080259179 | Automatic Multiscale Image Acquisition from a Steerable Camera - A system for automatically acquiring high-resolution images by steering a pan-tilt-zoom camera at targets detected in a fixed camera view is provided. The system uses automatic or manual calibration between multiple cameras. Using automatic calibration, the homography between the cameras in a home position is estimated together with the effects of pan and tilt controls and the expected height of a person in the image. These calibrations are chained together to steer a slave camera. The manual calibration scheme steers a camera to the desired region of interest and calculates the pan, tile and zoom parameters accordingly. | 10-23-2008 |
20080273088 | INTELLIGENT SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATED EVENT BASED SURVEILLANCE - A surveillance system and method includes a plurality of sensors configured to monitor an environment. A plurality of analytic engines is associated with each of the plurality of sensors. The plurality of analytic engines employs different technologies and is configured to analyze input from the sensors to determine whether an event has occurred in a respective technology. A unifying data model is configured to cross correlate detected events from the different technologies to gain integrated situation awareness across the different technologies. | 11-06-2008 |
20090067716 | Robust and efficient foreground analysis for real-time video surveillance - Systems and methods for foreground analysis in real-time video include background subtraction and foreground detection, shadow removal, quick lighting change adaptation, static foreground region detection, foreground fragment reduction, and frame level change detection. Processes include background image extraction and foreground detection, integrating texture information of the background image and a current frame to remove false positive foreground areas resulting from lighting changes, integrating pixel intensity information by determining a cross-correlation of intensities between a current frame and the background image for each pixel in a foreground mask to remove image shadows. Static foreground region detection and fragment reduction are also included. | 03-12-2009 |
20100284567 | SYSTEM AND PRACTICE FOR SURVEILLANCE PRIVACY-PROTECTION CERTIFICATION AND REGISTRATION - There is provided an apparatus for the certification of privacy compliance. The apparatus includes a registry of at least one of enrolled video surveillance operators, approved surveillance hardware devices, approved surveillance software programs, approved surveillance system installers, and approved entities that manage surveillance systems. The apparatus further includes a registry searcher, in signal communication with the registry, for receiving queries to the registry, and for determining whether at least one of a particular surveillance operator, a particular surveillance hardware device, a particular surveillance software program, a particular surveillance system installer, and a particular entity that manages a particular surveillance system is on the registry based on a given query. | 11-11-2010 |
20120307073 | AMBIENT PRESENTATION OF SURVEILLANCE DATA - A system and method for presentation of surveillance data includes a first environment including one or more sensors configured to monitor the first environment wherein data is collected by the one or more sensors. A second environment includes one or more information presentation devices configured to convey an event or state occurring in the first environment by altering an ambient sensory condition in the second environment, such that the ambient sensory condition is modified in accordance with a type and/or level of the event or state. | 12-06-2012 |
20120327246 | Automatic Multiscale Image Acquisition from a Steerable Camera - A system for automatically acquiring high-resolution images by steering a pan-tilt-zoom camera at targets detected in a fixed camera view is provided. The system uses automatic or manual calibration between multiple cameras. Using automatic calibration, the homography between the cameras in a home position is estimated together with the effects of pan and tilt controls and the expected height of a person in the image. These calibrations are chained together to steer a slave camera. The manual calibration scheme steers a camera to the desired region of interest and calculates the pan, tile and zoom parameters accordingly. | 12-27-2012 |
Connie Senior, Littleton, CO US
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20140331905 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING MERCURY EMISSIONS FROM COAL-FIRED THERMAL PROCESSES - The present disclosure is directed to the use of elemental or speciated iodine and bromine to control total mercury emissions. | 11-13-2014 |
20160074808 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING MERCURY EMISSIONS FROM COAL-FIRED THERMAL PROCESSES - The present disclosure is directed to the use of elemental or speciated iodine and bromine to control total mercury emissions. | 03-17-2016 |
Constance Senior, Littleton, CO US
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20130309157 | CONTROL OF WET SCRUBBER OXIDATION INHIBITOR AND BYPRODUCT RECOVERY - The present disclose is directed to a method for controlling iodine levels in wet scrubbers, and, in particular, recirculating wet scrubbers. | 11-21-2013 |
20140041561 | METHOD AND ADDITIVE FOR CONTROLLING NITROGEN OXIDE EMISSIONS - The present disclosure is directed to an additive mixture and method for controlling nitrogen oxide(s) by adding the additive mixture to a feed material prior to combustion. | 02-13-2014 |
20150023852 | CONTROL OF WET SCRUBBER OXIDATION INHIBITOR AND BYPRODUCT RECOVERY - The present disclose is directed to a method for controlling iodine levels in wet scrubbers, and, in particular, recirculating wet scrubbers by removing the iodine from the scrubbing solution, such as by using ion exchange, absorption, adsorption, precipitation, filtration, solvent extraction, ion pair extraction, and an aqueous two-phase extraction. | 01-22-2015 |
Constance Senior, Salt Lake City, UT US
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20120285352 | PROCESS TO REDUCE EMISSIONS OF NITROGEN OXIDES AND MERCURY FROM COAL-FIRED BOILERS - A flue gas additive is provided that includes both a nitrogenous component to reduce gas phase nitrogen oxides and a halogen-containing component to oxidize gas phase elemental mercury. | 11-15-2012 |
20160137942 | PROCESS TO REDUCE EMISSIONS OF NITROGEN OXIDES AND MERCURY FROM COAL-FIRED BOILERS - A flue gas additive is provided that includes both a nitrogenous component to reduce gas phase nitrogen oxides and a halogen-containing component to oxidize gas phase elemental mercury. | 05-19-2016 |
James W. Senior, East New Market, MD US
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20120255214 | REMOTELY CONTROLLED ANIMAL MOTION DECOY SYSTEM - A system configured to imitate actions of a group of animals includes a plurality of decoys. Each of the decoys includes anatomical body parts that are representative of an animal being imitated. Each decoy is capable of making a plurality of body motions in a predefined sequence. The system also includes a motion mechanism located inside the body of each decoy, wherein the motion mechanism is configured to control the plurality of body motions. The system further includes a control terminal including a plurality of button sets, with each set being associated with a switch group and each switch group being used to send a control message to a receiver of the motion mechanism of a particular decoy. Operation of the switch groups causes animation of groups of the plurality of decoys in a programmable or random manner. | 10-11-2012 |
Kathleen Evelyn Senior, Holly Springs, NC US
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20120253923 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING TARGETED MARKETING CAMPAIGN TO MERCHANT - Methods, systems and computer readable medium are provided for providing targeted marketing services. Historical transaction data is analyzed by a computer based system to provide an aggregate data profile of transaction account holders which participated in transactions with a first entity. A targeted marketing campaign is selected by the computer based system from a selection of available targeted marketing campaigns to propose to the first entity based on the aggregate data profile of transaction account holders. The selected targeted marketing campaign is then proposed by the computer based system to the first entity. | 10-04-2012 |
Krag R. Senior, Austin, TX US
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20150279720 | END EFFECTOR PADS - An end effector pad including a fence member, a first recessed support member extending from a first side of the fence member, a second recessed support member extending from a second side of the fence member opposite the first side, a first glass plate having a relatively low coefficient of friction disposed on top of the first recessed support member for supporting a substrate thereon, and a second glass plate having a relatively low coefficient of friction disposed on top of the second recessed support member for supporting a substrate thereon. | 10-01-2015 |
Lillian Senior, Port St. Lucie, FL US
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20130305796 | ENCAPSULATED PARTICLE - An encapsulated particle includes a core particle and a polyurethane disposed about the core particle. The polyurethane includes the reaction product of an aromatic isocyanate component and a polyol component. The polyol component includes a polyol derived from an aromatic amine-based initiator and an aliphatic polyether polyol. The polyol derived from the aromatic amine-based initiator has a nominal functionality of 4. The aliphatic polyether polyol has a nominal functionality of from 2 to 4. The weight ratio of the polyol derived from the aromatic amine-based initiator and the aliphatic polyether polyol is from about 1:2 to 2:1. A method of forming the encapsulated particle is also provided. | 11-21-2013 |
Lynn Senior, Durham, NC US
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20110214200 | YIELD TRAITS FOR MAIZE - Methods for introgressing an allele of interest of a locus associated with a yield trait into | 09-01-2011 |
Mary Lynn Senior, Research Triangle Park, NC US
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20140182010 | YIELD TRAITS FOR MAIZE - Methods for introgressing an allele of interest of a locus associated with a yield trait into | 06-26-2014 |
Monica Senior, College Park, GA US
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20140201659 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A TWISTY USER INTERFACE ELEMENT - A method and system for providing an adjustable user interface (UI) element comprises displaying as part of a UI of an application window a UI control element that controls a variably-sized content section. Responsive to receiving a variable adjustment made to the UI control element by a user, the variably-sized content section is resized in proportion to an amount of the variable adjustment received. | 07-17-2014 |
20140201661 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A TWISTY USER INTERFACE ELEMENT - A method and system for providing an adjustable user interface (UI) element comprises displaying as part of a UI of an application window a UI control element that controls a variably-sized content section. Responsive to receiving a variable adjustment made to the UI control element by a user, the variably-sized content section is resized in proportion to an amount of the variable adjustment received. | 07-17-2014 |
Paul D. Senior, Greensboro, NC US
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20110014414 | SUSTAINABLE SIMULATED COMMODITY TROPICAL HARDWOOD PANEL - A simulated commodity tropical hardwood-based panel includes an engineered veneer face including a first wood from one or more sustainable sources of wood. The face has a dyed coloring, a simulated grain, or a dyed coloring and a simulated grain that is substantially similar to the coloring, grain, or coloring and grain of a tropical hardwood veneer. The panel further includes a back and a core disposed between the face and back. The face, the core and back are stacked and adhered together to form a laminated panel. The face of the simulated commodity tropical hardwood-based panel has an appearance that is substantially similar to the appearance of the face veneer of a commodity tropical hardwood-based panel that includes the tropical hardwood veneer. The panel comprises no tropical hardwood from a non-sustainable source of wood. | 01-20-2011 |
20130186518 | SUSTAINABLE SIMULATED COMMODITY TROPICAL HARDWOOD PANEL - A simulated commodity tropical hardwood-based panel includes an engineered veneer face including a first wood from one or more sustainable sources of wood. The face has a dyed coloring, a simulated grain, or a dyed coloring and a simulated grain that is substantially similar to the coloring, grain, or coloring and grain of a tropical hardwood veneer. The panel further includes a back and a core disposed between the face and back. The face, the core and back are stacked and adhered together to form a laminated panel. The face of the simulated commodity tropical hardwood-based panel has an appearance that is substantially similar to the appearance of the face veneer of a commodity tropical hardwood-based panel that includes the tropical hardwood veneer. The panel comprises no tropical hardwood from a non-sustainable source of wood. | 07-25-2013 |
20150125652 | UNDERLAYMENT WITH IMPROVED VAPOR BARRIER - Underlayment, wall paneling, and beadboard panels, with an improved vapor barrier provided at least partially by a layer of primer applied to at least one of an engineered veneer face and a wood back veneer of a plywood panel. The primer can include polyvinyl acetate and titanium oxide at selected concentrations to produce a primer with decreased drying time and increased coverage. | 05-07-2015 |
Peter Senior, Tevittown, PA US
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20110045416 | Compressor and Method for Compressing Gaseous Fuel - A method for compressing gaseous fuel is disclosed. The method includes, ingesting gaseous fuel into a chamber, ingesting air into the chamber and mixing the gaseous fuel with the air, igniting and partially combusting the resulting mixture of gaseous fuel and air in a confined space such that a predominant fraction of the gaseous fuel is not combusted, causing an increased temperature and therefore an increased pressure of the fraction of the gaseous fuel which is not combusted, and discharging the resulting compressed gaseous fuel. Moreover, a compressor is provided including a casing, a rotor with at least three vanes, an inlet for gaseous fuel, an outlet for gaseous fuel, an air inlet and an igniter. The rotor is placed in the casing such that at least three variable-volume chambers part-bounded by the vanes are formed during a rotor revolution. | 02-24-2011 |
Ric Senior, San Diego, CA US
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20080232282 | SMART ACCUMULATOR FOR FINITE-PRECISION ARITHMETIC - Systems, methods, and devices that facilitate finite-precision data accumulation by utilizing precision binning and queuing are provided. A precision range of a data element received into a queue can be determined. Further, a stored data element of like precision can be selected. The stored data element can be added with the data element received into the queue to generate a resultant data element. The resultant data element can be stored in a memory location or the queue as a function of like precision range. | 09-25-2008 |
20080232400 | DYNAMIC MANAGEMENT OF RECEIVER RESOURCES - Techniques for dynamically managing receiver resources to achieve good latency and throughput performance are described. A receiver may have various types of receiver resources such as demod resources for demodulating packets, decode resources for decoding packets, packet processing resources, etc. These various types of receiver resources may be dynamically assigned to packets. In one design, receiver resource usage by each packet to be processed by the receiver may be estimated. The available receiver resources may be assigned to packets based on the estimated receiver resource usage by each packet and one or more assignment criteria such as priority, latency requirements, etc. The latency of each packet may be determined based on the receiver resource assignment. If the latency requirements of any packet are not met, then receiver processing may be skipped or deferred for one or more packets such that the latency requirements of each packet to be processed can be met. | 09-25-2008 |
Richard Senior, San Diego, CA US
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20150381201 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DICTIONARY-BASED CACHE-LINE LEVEL CODE COMPRESSION FOR ON-CHIP MEMORIES USING GRADUAL BIT REMOVAL - A multi-pass compression iteratively removes combinations of bits from locations in each word of a cache line of an uncompressed data stream. For each combination of removed bits, the remaining bits in the word values of the cache line are analyzed to generate a compression score. A highest compression score triggers the building of a dictionary from the remaining bits in the word values of the cache line. After a dictionary is built, the method may continue iteratively to create subsequent dictionaries from the words that remain uncompressed in the cache line. To decompress a word, a first bit section of the compressed word is used to identify a dictionary that is then queried for bits indexed in a second bit section of the compressed word. The uncompressed word is reconstructed by interleaving the queried bits with the removed combination of bits from a third bit section of the word. | 12-31-2015 |
20160092492 | SHARING INITIAL DICTIONARIES AND HUFFMAN TREES BETWEEN MULTIPLE COMPRESSED BLOCKS IN LZ-BASED COMPRESSION ALGORITHMS - A string of data is partitioned into a set of blocks. Each block is compressed based on a set of initial dictionaries and a set of Huffman trees. Each block is associated by a pointer with an initial dictionary in the set of initial dictionaries and a Huffman tree in the set of Huffman trees used to compress that block. A compressed string of data includes the set of initial dictionaries, the set of Huffman trees, and the compressed blocks and associated pointers. | 03-31-2016 |
20160124659 | Efficient Decompression Locality System for Demand Paging - Aspects include computing devices, systems, and methods for implementing executing decompression of a compressed page. A computing device may determine a decompression block belonging to a compressed page that contains a code instruction requested in a memory access request. Decompression blocks, other than the decompression block containing the requested code instruction, may be selected for decompression based on their locality with respect to the decompression block containing the requested code instruction. Decompression blocks not identified for decompression may be substituted for a fault or exception code. The computing device may decompress decompression blocks identified for decompression, terminating the decompression of the compressed page upon filling all blocks with decompressed blocks, faults, or exception code. The remaining decompression blocks belonging to the compressed page may be decompressed after or concurrently with the execution of the requested code instruction. | 05-05-2016 |
20160124867 | Reducing Decompression Time Without Impacting Compression Ratio - Aspects include computing devices, systems, and methods for implementing executing decompression of a compressed page. A computing device may determine a decompression block of a compressed page that contains a code instruction requested in a memory access request. Decompression blocks, other than the decompression block containing the requested code instruction, may be selected for decompression based on being situated between an end of the compressed page and the decompression block containing the requested code instruction. Decompression blocks not identified for decompression may be substituted for a fault or exception code. The computing device may decompress decompression blocks identified for decompression, starting at the end of the compressed page and terminating the decompression of the compressed page upon filling all blocks with decompressed blocks, faults, or exception code. The remaining decompression blocks of the compressed page may be decompressed after or concurrently with the execution of the requested code instruction. | 05-05-2016 |
Robert Senior, Morgan Hill, CA US
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20110198057 | HEAT DISSIPATION APPARATUS FOR DATA CENTER - The present invention discloses a heat dissipation apparatus that comprises a heat transfer means and an air channel. The heat transfer means is filled with a first fluid, and it has an evaporation portion and a condenser portion where the evaporation portion receives heat from at least one server and the heat is transmitted to the condenser portion through the first fluid. The air channel receives a second fluid to transfer the heat from the condenser portion into a predetermined space. The first fluid is different than the second fluid. | 08-18-2011 |
20110198060 | Heat Dissipation Apparatus for Data Center - The present invention discloses a heat dissipation apparatus that comprises at least a boiling houses, a condenser and an air channel. Each boiling house is provided to receive heat from at least a server, and is connected with a loop pipe filled with a first fluid. Each condenser is connected with the loop pipe so as to remove the heat from each boiling house. The cooling conduit is provided to receive a second fluid for conveying the second fluid to each condenser. The air channel is provided to receive a third fluid for transferring the heat from the condenser into a predetermined space. | 08-18-2011 |
Rodney Senior, Ft. Myers, FL US
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20120072329 | ELECTRONIC QUANTITY PURCHASING SYSTEM - Disclosed is an electronic quantity purchasing system which is a host computer that a user may access to purchase quantities of goods or services at a locked-in price for later redemption. The preferred communication means employed is via secure, high-speed Internet access. Data storage is electronic. Users employ the system to make an instant purchase of a small or large quantity of a commodity, such as gasoline at the current purchase price. Users can redeem all or part of their balance for real product at a physical location in the future when desired. The redemption will draw down the user's account balance at the locked-in purchase price, so the user is able to circumvent the market price in effect at the time of redemption. | 03-22-2012 |
Rodney Senior, Fort Meyers, FL US
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20140244413 | ELECTRONIC QUANTITY PURCHASING SYSTEM - Disclosed is an electronic quantity purchasing system which is a host computer that a user may access to purchase quantities of goods or services at a locked-in price for later redemption. The preferred communication means employed is via secure, high-speed Internet access. Data storage is electronic. Users employ the system to make an instant purchase of a small or large quantity of a commodity, such as gasoline at the current purchase price. Users can redeem all or part of their balance for real product at a physical location in the future when desired. The redemption will draw down the user's account balance at the locked-in purchase price, so the user is able to circumvent the market price in effect at the time of redemption. | 08-28-2014 |
Russell Senior, Linden, MI US
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20160138553 | SPARK PLUG FOULING DETECTION - Methods and systems are provided for detecting spark plug fouling in an ignition system of an engine. In one example, a method may include directing current flow into a primary winding of an ignition coil of the ignition system for a duration of dwell period responsive to a dwell command from a controller, reducing the current flow to discharge an initial spark, and discharging additional sparks. The method may further include selectively generating an indication of a recommendation to change one or more spark plugs of the ignition system based upon a primary current measured after the dwell period. | 05-19-2016 |