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André Ricard, Toulouse FR
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20100107962 | STERILISATION INDICATOR - The invention provides a sterilization indicator ( | 05-06-2010 |
Benoit Ricard, St-Augustin-De-Desmaures CA
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20140132762 | SENSOR NODE - Systems, methods, and devices relating to a field programmable unattended surveillance, low-power sensor node which uses a passive infrared (PIR) based motion detector to trigger a linear array of photodetectors and advanced processing for target detection and classification. The sensor node is equipped with an infrared beacon that is activated once a potential target is detected. The activated infrared beacon can then be seen by an operator using a night vision device. | 05-15-2014 |
Doug Ricard, Woodinville, WA US
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20150310261 | CREATION OF REPRESENTATIVE CONTENT BASED ON FACIAL ANALYSIS - Technologies for analyzing various features detected in a face detected in an image. Such features may include at least the eyes, eyebrows, node, and mouth of a face. Such analyzing may include scoring aspects of these features. Such scores may be weighted. The analysis may be used to determine expressions and/or poses of the face, as well as indicate if the face is smiling, frowning, or neutral. An overall quality score for the face may also be determined and provided based on the aforementioned analysis as well as whether or not the face is near an edge of the image or cut-off in the image. Finally, a face signature may be determined that uniquely identifies the face, at least within the scope of the analyzed features. Such face signatures may be used to detect a similar face in other images. | 10-29-2015 |
Douglas A. Ricard, Bellevue, WA US
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20100011288 | SIMULTANEOUSLY REFORMATTING A DOCUMENT WITH MULTIPLE COLORS - Reformatting a previously formatted document. A unique interface allows preview and selection of a color set. A color set comprises a plurality of colors defining a color scheme. Once a color set is determined, the document is reformatted in such a way as to simultaneously apply multiple colors to text within a document, while otherwise maintaining the proportionality and integrity of its previous formatting. | 01-14-2010 |
Douglas A. Ricard, Woodinville, WA US
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20090060387 | OPTIMIZATIONS FOR RADIUS OPTICAL BLUR - Optical blur architecture that provides a significant improvement in the computation processes required to create optical blur. The architecture can be applied to efficiently implement optical blur on an image where the radius may vary from pixel to pixel and when the radius does not vary at all. The solution includes a significant improvement in computational efficiency. A wide range of radiuses can be handled and any radius within that range without the need for an infinite number of masks or having to create masks on-the-fly. An infinite number of virtual radius tables can be generated from a small number of tables. A list of tables can be logarithmically generated and utilized for a wide range of radiuses the table sizes can be reduced by storing the weight information for the entire area of the mask and only storing the delta values from the previous radius. | 03-05-2009 |
Douglas Alan Ricard, Woodinville, WA US
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20130335596 | COMBINING MULTIPLE IMAGES IN BRACKETED PHOTOGRAPHY - Embodiments provide a unified method for combining images such as high dynamic range images, flash-no-flash image pairs, and/or other images. Weight masks are defined for each of the plurality of images by calculating coefficients for each of the weight masks. Calculating the coefficients includes, at least, performing histogram alignment between a reference image and each of the other input images and by applying a mismatch bias to the coefficients as a function of the histogram alignment. After applying the weight masks to the corresponding images, the images are combined to produce a final image. | 12-19-2013 |
Gregoire Ricard, Thun CH
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20140087021 | MILK OLIGOSACCHARIDE-GALACTOOLIGOSACCHARIDE COMPOSITION FOR INFANT FORMULA CONTAINING THE SOLUBLE OLIGOSACCHARIDE FRACTION PRESENT IN MILK, AND HAVING A LOW LEVEL OF MONOSACCHARIDES, AND A PROCESS TO PRODUCE THE COMPOSITION - The invention discloses an oligosaccharide mixture derived from cow's milk that can be easily spray dried comprising (a) a soluble oligosaccharide population which is the same as that of soluble oligosaccharides found in cow's milk and (b) β-galactooligosaccharides formed by the action of β-galacotsidase on lactose and the milk oligosaccharides. The mixture having a total monosaccharide content of less than 5% w/v and a lactose:oligosaccharide ratio of less than 20. A process for obtaining such a mixture, which includes a nanofiltration step, is disclosed. Nutritional compositions, especially infant formula, comprising said oligosaccharide mixture are also disclosed. | 03-27-2014 |
Julien Ricard, Barcelona ES
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20100250471 | MUSIC INTELLIGENCE UNIVERSE SERVER - An artificial intelligence song/music recommendation system and method is provided that allows music shoppers to discover new music. The system and method accomplish these tasks by analyzing a database of music in order to identify key similarities between different pieces of music, and then recommends pieces of music to a user depending upon their music preferences. | 09-30-2010 |
Michelle Agnes Ricard, Pointe-Des-Cascades CA
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20130120556 | ON-LINE MACROCONTAMINANT ANALYSER AND METHOD - An on-line automated analyser of macrocontaminants is described. The analyser is for a pulp and/or a white water stream, the analyser comprises: a pulp classifier separating a sample from the stream into a fraction of macrocontaminants; a contaminant chamber enclosing a contaminant cell receiving the fraction; an optical chamber comprising an optical detector connected to the cell capturing at least one detected image; and a control chamber taking the at least one detected image and conducting an image analysis to determine type and quantity of at least one macrocontaminant in the fraction. The method of analysis of macrocontaminants is also described herein, the method comprises: separating a sample from the stream into a fraction of macrocontaminants; producing at least one detected image by optical measurement of the fraction; and analysing the at least one detected image and determining the quantity and type of at least one macrocontaminant in the fraction. | 05-16-2013 |
Robert Ricard, Cromwell, CT US
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20110100003 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO REDUCE THE TEMPERATURE OF GEOTHERMAL WATER TO INCREASE THE CAPACITY AND EFFICIENCY WHILE DECREASING THE COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH A GEOTHERMAL POWER PLANT CONSTRUCTION - The system and method to reduce the temperature of geothermal water to increase the capacity and efficiency while decreasing the costs associated with a geothermal power plant construction uses a high efficiency steam turbine. The steam turbine lowers the high temperature geothermal resource so it can be used in parallel with an innovative low temperature Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) geothermal power plant to increase the efficiency and capacity while at the same time to reduce the costs associated with constructing the power plant because of logistics, labor and material. | 05-05-2011 |