Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8189875 | Systems and methods for gemstone identification and analysis Images of items of jewelry having gemstones embedded therein are imaged and analyzed to determine the weights associated with the gemstones and, separately the precious metal in which the gemstones are encased without having to remove the gemstones from the jewelry.... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8170288 | Reducing noise in 3D seismic data while preserving structural details A system and method perform structure-preserving smoothing (SPS) using a data adaptive method for smoothing 3D post-stacked seismic attributes which reduces random noise while preserving the structure without prior computation of its orientation. The data is smoothe... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8155390 | Methods and apparatus for providing unbuffered dig area indicators on aerial images to delimit planned excavation sites Indicating a precise geographic extent and a precise geographic location of a dig area at a work site at which excavation is planned, to facilitate detection and/or marking of a presence or an absence of an underground facility in the dig area. A graphical user inte... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8116532 | Extraction of processed borehole image elements to create a combined image A method for imaging a subsurface material, the method including: receiving a first image of the subsurface material and a second image of the subsurface material, the first image displaying a first property of the subsurface material and the second image displaying... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8081802 | Method for determining permeability of rock formation using computer tomograpic images thereof A method for estimating permeability properties of a porous material from a sample thereof includes making a three dimensional tomographic image of the sample of the material. The image is segmented into pixels each representing pore space or rock grains. The image ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8055026 | Image feature extraction A method of extracting desired features from a cellular image including the steps of: (a) selecting an initial cell within the image; (b) selecting an additional cell, near the initial cell, appearing to be associated with a desired feature; (c) repeating step (b) f... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8045762 | Surveying method, surveying system and surveying data processing program There are provided a step of acquiring a main point cloud data on a predetermined measurement range by a laser scanner, a step of detecting a range with no data acquired, a step of acquiring a supplementary image data of the range with no data acquired by an auxilia... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8027517 | Method for stratigraphic interpretation of seismic images A method for stratigraphic interpretation of a seismic image for determining a sedimentary history of an underground zone having application to petroleum exploration. The seismic reflectors of the image are digitized by means of an applied shape recognition techniqu... | 09/27/2011 |
| 7912249 | Tomographic imaging A method of displaying tomographic information. The method comprises defining a compact region within an imaged target and generating an image showing a part of the target encircling the compact region, wherein the compact region represents a bore to be drilled and ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7881501 | Local dominant wave-vector analysis of seismic data The present invention relates to a method and system for processing multi-dimensional signal data to determine frequency dependent features therefrom. The multi-dimensional signal data are transformed into space-frequency or time-space-frequency domain, providing se... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7853045 | Geostatistical analysis and classification of core data A novel database and method of classifying and searchably retrieving measurement data derived from a plurality of rock core and plug sample images that are analyzed to define their principal geostatistical attributes and characteristics, with the resulting analytica... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7764810 | Geospatial modeling system providing non-linear inpainting for voids in geospatial model terrain data and related methods A geospatial modeling system may include a geospatial model database and a processor. The processor may cooperate with the geospatial model database for inpainting data into at least one void in geospatial model terrain data based upon propagating contour data from ... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7760913 | Geospatial modeling system providing non-linear in painting for voids in geospatial model frequency domain data and related methods A geospatial modeling system may include a geospatial model database and a processor. More particularly, the processor may cooperate with the geospatial model database for inpainting data into at least one void in geospatial model frequency domain data based upon pr... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7734064 | Method and apparatus for classifying geological materials using image processing techniques Provided is a method and apparatus for classifying geological materials using image processing techniques. The method and apparatus classify geological materials including stones, rock samples, and rock surfaces according to type and state by sequentially applying i... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7639842 | Remote sensing and probabilistic sampling based forest inventory method A remote sensing and probabilistic sampling based forest inventory method can correlate aerial data, such as LiDAR, CIR, and/or Hyperspectral data with actual sampled and measured ground data to facilitate obtainment, e.g., prediction, of a more accurate forest inve... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7630517 | Computer-based generation and validation of training images for multipoint geostatistical analysis A computer-implemented method is provided that automatically characterizes and verifies stationarity of a training image for use in multipoint geostatistical analysis. The stationarity is preferably characterized by statistical measures of orientation stationarity, ... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7555143 | Real-time geo-registration of imagery using COTS graphics processors A method of performing real-time geo-registration of high-resolution digital imagery using existing graphics processing units (GPUs) already found in current personal computers, rather than the main central processing unit (CPU). Digital image data captured by a cam... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7440591 | Validation of terrain and obstacle databases A method of identifying errors in information describing terrain features is disclosed. According to the method, a first set of data is obtained which describes an area of terrain. The first set of data has a first type of error. A second set of data is obtained whi... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7373353 | Reducing index size for multi-level grid indexes The number of index entries in a grid index for indexing geometric shapes is reduced by establishing a pool storage area for geometric shapes, selecting a threshold number of grid cells which a geometric shape may overlap, storing the shape in the grid index if a ge... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369980 | Method for constructing a geologic model of a subsurface reservoir The present invention is a method for constructing a geologic model of a subsurface reservoir which is a composite sedimentary body (30) composed of many smaller fundamental sedimentary bodies (32). In one embodiment, the fundamental sedimentary bodies... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366327 | System for recognizing wheels by artificial vision The system includes wheel locating equipment, image capturing equipment, lighting equipment, a first control device, first communicating installations for communications between the first control device and the image capturing equipment, and second communicating ins... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7356414 | Seismic image deformation method for improved interpretation The present invention is a method of geometric deformation of a seismic image for interpretation. The method includes selecting a geologic layer represented in the seismic image determining by stratigraphic modeling a mean topographic depositional surface for said l... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7352370 | Four-dimensional volume of interest A method and apparatus for representing a deformable volume of interest in four dimensions is described, where the four dimensions are three spatial dimensions and one temporal dimension including discrete points in time, and where the deformable volume of interest ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7310435 | Method and apparatus for extracting multi-dimensional structures using dynamic constraints A technique is provided for segmenting a structure of interest from a volume dataset. The technique identifies regions of the structure using templates having characteristics of the structure of interest. The identified regions may then undergo a constrained growth ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7308139 | Method, system, and apparatus for color representation of seismic data and associated measurements The present invention is a method, system, and apparatus for visually displaying digitized information in a way that allows a human operator to detect easily patterns and characteristics within the data. A personal computer is used to extract raw data and to perform... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7305371 | Swarming agents for distributed pattern detection and classification Swarming agents in networks of preferably physically distributed processing nodes are used for data acquisition, data fusion, and control applications. An architecture for active surveillance systems is presented in which simple mobile agents collectively process re... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7298891 | Bare earth digital elevation model extraction for three-dimensional registration from topographical points A method (300) for extracting a digital elevation model from a plurality of raw topographical points representing a plurality of frames representing a plurality of perspectives of a multi-dimensional object comprising a surface and above-surface obstructions,... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7298376 | System and method for real-time co-rendering of multiple attributes An apparatus and method for enhancing the combined image of multiple attributes without compromising the image of either attribute. The combined image of the multiple attributes is enhanced for analyzing a predetermined property revealed by the attributes. The combi... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7286690 | Method for imaging of pre-stack seismic data Prestack seismic data is imaged by calculating an individual reflectivity for each frequency in the seismic data. Then, a mean reflectivity is calculating over the individual reflectivities. A variance is calculated for the set of reflectivities versus frequency. A ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7257488 | Method of sedimentologic interpretation by estimation of various chronological scenarios of sedimentary layers deposition A method having application for the development of oil reservoirs for automatically extracting from a seismic image pertinent information for sedimentologic interpretation by using estimations of realistic chronological scenarios of sedimentary layers deposition. Th... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7254485 | Soil and topography surveying Methods of characterizing subsurface conditions in a selected geographic region previously associated as a whole with a specific subsurface material characteristic reference profile such as from a USDA-NRCS soil survey. The method includes deploying a sensing tool a... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251348 | Land appearance inspecting device, and land appearance inspecting method Land circle calculating means (7) calculates a land circle as an approximate circle from label information (S6). Land circle accuracy-enhancing means (8) calculates again the land circle by changing a mask angle if land circle candidate informat... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7245743 | Three-dimensional image capture system An image capturing system utilizes a plurality of image capturing apparatus to capture first image data for an object. A processor is utilized to combine the first images to produce first three-dimensional digital image data. The processor then utilizes a second alg... | 07/17/2007 |
| 7212670 | Method of feature identification and analysis A method for efficiently and accurately inventorying image features such as timber, including steps of segmenting digital images into tree stands, segmenting tree stands into tree crowns, each tree crown having a tree crown area, classifying tree crowns based on spe... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7203342 | Image feature extraction A method of extracting desired features from a cellular image including the steps of: (a) selecting an initial cell within the image; (b) selecting an additional cell, near the initial cell, appearing to be associated with a desired feature; (c) repeating step (b) f... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7191145 | Method and system automatically to price a promotional product A computer-implemented method to price a promotional product includes the generation of a user interface that facilitates input of specification information concerning the promotional product, the specification information including product information identifying a... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7187784 | Borescope for drilled shaft inspection Visual inspection of an interior surface of a borehole. A housing adapted to be lowered in the borehole supports a portable camera for generating images of a portion of the interior surface of the borehole and a light source for illuminating an area adjacent the cam... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7177445 | Discriminating between changes in lighting and movement of objects in a series of images using different methods depending on optically detectable surface characteristics In a motion detection system, filters are applied to a series of digital images in order to determine whether changes in the properties of pixels between the current image and a reference model are due to motion of objects or to changes in lighting. The filter may b... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7173562 | Process for mapping multiple-bounce ghosting artifacts from radar imaging data Described herein are frequency-domain back-projection processes for forming spotlight synthetic aperture radar (“SAR”) images that are not corrupted by the effects of multiple-bounce ghosting artifacts. These processes give an approximately exact reconstruction ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7171912 | Method for prescribing site-specific fertilizer application in agricultural fields A map of site-specific amounts of a soil nutrient, to be applied in fertilizer to an agricultural field is created using a map of site-specific amounts of the soil nutrient needed to produce the maximum possible yield at the particular site. Subtracted from the site... | 02/06/2007 |
