Stankiewicz

Aaron Stankiewicz, Shelby Twp., MI US

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100218332	Windshield wiper assembly having an optimized airfoil - A wiper assembly having a wiping element for contact with a windshield within a predetermined attack angle range of ±10° perpendicular relative to the surface to be wiped. The wiper assembly further includes two elongated beams that are engaged to the wiping element and apply a downward force thereto. The wiper assembly also includes a connecting member mounted to the elongated beams. The wiper assembly also includes an airfoil that has an attachment portion attached to the elongated beams and an upper portion that is attached to the attachment portion. The upper portion includes a wing having a facing surface and a trailing surface that extend outwardly from the upper portion at converging angles to improve wind lift resistance and reduce drag.	09-02-2010

Andrzej Stankiewicz, Edina, MN US

Patent application number	Description	Published
20160118066	SENSOR STRUCTURE HAVING INCREASED THERMAL STABILITY - A reader sensor having a dusting layer having a thickness less than 5 Angstroms between and in contact with the AFM layer and with the pinned layer. The dusting layer comprises a non-magnetic, electrically conducting material, such as ruthenium or iridium. The reader sensor has a free layer composed of a material free of nickel (Ni).	04-28-2016

Andrzej Adam Stankiewicz, Edina, MN US

Patent application number	Description	Published
20090251827	Recording head for reducing side track erasure - The present invention relates to a head having an air bearing surface for confronting the surface of a storage medium. The head includes a first pole that is spaced apart from a second pole. At least one non-magnetic spacer is positioned between the first pole and the second pole such that the first pole is magnetically decoupled from the second pole. In a further aspect, one or both of the first pole and the second pole can be elliptical in shape.	10-08-2009

Brian J. Stankiewicz, Mahtomedi, MN US

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100086200	SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MULTI-PERSPECTIVE SCENE ANALYSIS - Systems and methods for using visual attention modeling techniques to evaluate a scene from multiple perspectives.	04-08-2010
20100174671	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONCURRENTLY CONDUCTING CAUSE-AND-EFFECT EXPERIMENTS ON CONTENT EFFECTIVENESS AND ADJUSTING CONTENT DISTRIBUTION TO OPTIMIZE BUSINESS OBJECTIVES - The present invention is directed to systems, articles, and computer-implemented methods for assessing effectiveness of communication content and optimizing content distribution to enhance business objectives. Embodiments of the present invention are directed to computer-implemented methods for a computer-implemented method, comprising conducting an experiment using experimental content to determine effectiveness of communication content and executing, while conducting the experiment, a machine learning routine (MLR) using MLR content to enhance an effectiveness metric.	07-08-2010
20130158963	SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVING VISUAL ATTENTION MODELS - Systems and methods for improving visual attention models use effectiveness assessment from an environment as feedback to improve visual attention models. The effectiveness assessment uses data indicative of a particular behavior, which is related to visual attention allocation, received from the environment to assess relative effectiveness of the environment on influencing the particular behavior.	06-20-2013
20130230253	SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATING ROBUSTNESS OF SALIENCY PREDICTIONS OF REGIONS IN A SCENE - Systems and methods for evaluating the robustness of objects within a scene or a scene itself.	09-05-2013
20130246162	SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONCURRENTLY CONDUCTING CAUSE-AND-EFFECT EXPERIMENTS ON CONTENT EFFECTIVENESS AND ADJUSTING CONTENT DISTRIBUTION TO OPTIMIZE BUSINESS OBJECTIVES - The present invention is directed to systems, articles, and computer-implemented methods for assessing effectiveness of communication content and optimizing content distribution to enhance business objectives. Embodiments of the present invention are directed to computer-implemented methods for a computer-implemented method, comprising conducting an experiment using experimental content to determine effectiveness of communication content and executing, while conducting the experiment, a machine learning routine (MLR) using MLR content to enhance an effectiveness metric.	09-19-2013
20130259448	SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING A SCENE - Systems and methods for optimizing properties of objects within a scene or achieve a visual goal.	10-03-2013
20140294236	SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NOTE RECOGNITION - At least some aspects of the present disclosure feature systems and methods for note recognition. The note recognition system includes a sensor, a note recognition module, and a note extraction module. The sensor is configured to capture a visual representation of a scene having one or more notes. The note recognition module is coupled to the sensor. The note recognition module is configured to receive the captured visual representation and determine a general boundary of a note from the captured visual representation. The note extraction module is configured to extract content of the note from the captured visual representation based on the determined general boundary of the note.	10-02-2014
20140297646	SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING NOTES - At least some aspects of the present disclosure feature systems and methods for managing notes. The note management system includes a note source, a note recognition module, a note extraction module, and a note labeling module. The note source is a visual representation of a scene having a note. The note recognition module is configured to receive the visual representation and determine a general boundary of the note from the visual representation. The note extraction module is configured to extract content of the note from the visual representation based on the determined general boundary. The note labeling module is configured to label the note with a category.	10-02-2014
20150135046	SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING NOTES - A mobile device comprises a sensor to produce image data containing a visual representation of a plurality of physical notes, each of the physical notes comprising separate physical objects, a processor, and at least one module. The module can process the image data to determine boundaries for each of the plurality of physical notes and to determine, based on the boundaries, one or more characteristics for each of the physical notes. The module can also create a digital note representative of each of the plurality of physical notes, apply a set of rules to identify any of the rules that specify criteria satisfied by one or more characteristics of the physical notes, and for each of the identified rules, perform one or more actions specified by the rule to each of the digital notes for which the characteristics of the physical notes satisfies the criteria specified by the rule.	05-14-2015
20150262023	SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NOTE RECOGNITION - At least some aspects of the present disclosure feature systems and methods for note recognition. The note recognition system includes a sensor, a note recognition module, and a note extraction module. The sensor is configured to capture a visual representation of a scene having one or more notes. The note recognition module is coupled to the sensor. The note recognition module is configured to receive the captured visual representation and determine a general boundary of a note from the captured visual representation. The note extraction module is configured to extract content of the note from the captured visual representation based on the determined general boundary of the note.	09-17-2015

Brian J. Stankiewicz, Mahtomed, MN US

Patent application number	Description	Published
20100086221	SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR EVALUATING ROBUSTNESS - Systems and methods for evaluating the robustness of objects within a scene or a scene itself.	04-08-2010
20100086278	SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR OPTIMIZING A SCENE - Systems and methods for optimizing properties of objects within a scene or achieve a visual goal.	04-08-2010

Frances Stankiewicz, Hebron, CT US

Patent application number	Description	Published
20140048110	Personal Cooling Apparatus - A portable sun screen and cooling apparatus for shading a user from direct sunlight while circulating cooled air. The portable sun screen and cooling apparatus provides a domed canopy with an air conditioning element that circulates cooled air throughout the domed canopy. The domed canopy comprises a hollow framework for redirecting the cooled air toward a user's upper body. An indicating element demonstrates a user's position should they become lost or separated from their companions.	02-20-2014

Marcin Stankiewicz, Redmond, WA US

Patent application number	Description	Published
20140297882	DYNAMIC TRACK SWITCHING IN MEDIA STREAMING - A switching module is adapted to configure switches between source buffers and rendering pipelines. Each of the switches has one or more selection inputs each representing encoded data for a media track from one of the source buffers. Each of the switches also has a selection output associated with one of the rendering pipelines for decoding and rendering. The switching module is further adapted to use the switches to manage which of the media tracks, if any, have encoded data routed to the rendering pipelines during media streaming. The rendering pipelines can include a video rendering pipeline and one or more audio rendering pipelines, where the switching module is part of a media engine adapted to determine a clock source in one of the audio rendering pipeline(s), and the clock source is used to drive synchronization of the media tracks.	10-02-2014

Marek Stankiewicz, Zielona Gora PL

Patent application number	Description	Published
20160102377	DEVICE FOR INDIVIDUAL QUENCH HARDENING OF TECHNICAL EQUIPMENT COMPONENTS - Device for individual quenching of gears, pinions, bearing rings and other similar components of technical devices, operating in a vacuum furnace installation, whereby the quenching chamber of the installation is fitted with tightly-sealed doors for workpiece loading and unloading. The following elements are fitted inside the quenching chamber: removable table on which an individual workpiece is placed, along with a surrounding set of removable nozzles; the inlet of the quenching chamber features an attached tank supplying the cooling medium to the nozzles—preferably air or nitrogen, or argon or helium, or hydrogen or carbon dioxide, or mixtures thereof—while the outlet of the quenching chamber is connected to the inlet of a tank receiving expanded cooling medium from the chamber; moreover, there is a compressor connected in between the two tanks, ensuring closed-loop flow of the cooling medium.	04-14-2016

Olgierd Stankiewicz, Poznan PL

Patent application number	Description	Published
20130128968	Method for predicting a shape of an encoded area using a depth map - A method for predicting a shape of an encoded area using a depth map. The method includes synthesizing a virtual depth map and identifying disoccluded regions in the virtual depth map, wherein the disoccluded regions provide a predicted a shape of an area under compression.	05-23-2013
20130129235	Image Coding Method - An image coding method. The method includes encoding a first image, the first image having a reduced spatial resolution relative to an input image, wherein values of the first image depend on energy of corresponding areas of the input image, and encoding a first shape information of the shape of a spatial spectrum of the input image. The method further includes reconstructing a second image from the encoded first image, reconstructing a second shape information from the encoded first shape information, and generating a noise image having an intensity described by the second image and having a spectrum shape described by the second shape information.	05-23-2013
20130129244	Method for coding of stereoscopic depth - A method for coding a stereoscopic depth. The method includes encoding a signal varied in a non-linear relation to the stereoscopic depth so as to obtain a transformed signal, and decoding the transformed signal using an inverse non-linear transformation so as to reconstruct the stereoscopic depth. The dynamics of the transformed signal for small values of the stereoscopic depth are greater than the dynamics of the transformed signal for large values of the stereoscopic depth.	05-23-2013

Timothy J. Stankiewicz, Lathrup Village, MI US

Patent application number	Description	Published
20120038200	FASTENER - A fastener, such as for coupling a trim cover to a seat, including an elongated body portion; a first end extending from the elongated body portion to define a connecting structure having a substantially J-shape, a middle portion between the elongated body portion and the first end, and a receiving space there between for receiving a structure; a second end extending distally from the elongated body portion for attachment to the trim cover; and wherein the connecting structure includes an arcuate hook shaped to define a barb pointing outward and a planar surface pointing inward for retaining the fastener on the structure.	02-16-2012

Zofia Stankiewicz, Tokyo JP

Patent application number	Description	Published
20150379610	RECOMMENDATION INFORMATION PRESENTATION DEVICE, RECOMMENDATION INFORMATION PRESENTATION METHOD, AND RECOMMENDATION INFORMATION PRESENTATION PROGRAM - A recommendation information presentation device includes a topic generation unit that mechanically classifies words extracted from text information about a plurality of products and generates a plurality of topics made up of a plurality of words, a product profile generation unit that generates a product profile indicating the tendency of distribution of words contained in the text information about products over topics, a presentation unit that presents words contained in at least two topics to a user terminal for each topic, an extraction unit that generates a user profile indicating the tendency of selection of a topic by a user based on selection of a topic by the user and extracts a product profile indicating the tendency of distribution that coincides with the tendency of selection with a certain degree or higher, and a recommendation information presentation unit that presents information about a product associated with the extracted product profile.	12-31-2015

Zofia Stankiewicz, New York, NY US

Patent application number	Description	Published
20130212110	System and Method for Association Extraction for Surf-Shopping - The present disclosure is directed to a computer system and method performed by a selectively programmed data processor for providing data to a Web page such that items are presented to the user in a way that imitates a real world shopping experience. Various aspects of the disclosed technology also relate to systems and methods for calculating product or category associations using associative relation extraction. Additional aspects of the disclosed technology relate to automatic topic discovery, and event and category matching.	08-15-2013
20140280148	METHOD FOR ANALYZING AND CATEGORIZING SEMI-STRUCTURED DATA - A computer system interconnected to a community of users having a data processor input module programmed to receive communications from said users including one or more inputs regarding food recipes and store said inputs in accessible memory. A data processor determining module programmed to access stored data and to apply a data interpretative algorithm to said data to unify and organize disparate data inputs into a cohesive database relating to recipes. Also, a search entry module connected to the recipe database to permit access to the database to support a search algorithm applied to the database.	09-18-2014

Zofia Stankiewicz, Forest Hills, NY US

Patent application number	Description	Published
20120117092	Systems And Methods Regarding Keyword Extraction - One exemplary aspect comprises a computer system comprising: (a) a preprocessing unit that extracts text from a webpage to produce at least a first set of candidate keywords, applies language processing to produce at least a second set of candidate keywords, and combines said first and second sets of candidate keywords into a first candidate pool; (b) a candidate extraction unit that receives data from said preprocessing unit describing at least said first candidate pool and produces a second candidate pool; (c) a feature extraction unit that receives data describing at least said second candidate pool and analyzes said second candidate pool for general features and linguistic features; and (d) a classification unit that receives said data describing at least said second candidate pool and related data from said feature extraction unit, and determines a likelihood of each candidate in said second candidate pool being a primary or secondary keyword.	05-10-2012