Mintzer, US
Frederick C. Mintzer, Shrub Oak, NY US
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20090021795 | MARKING IMAGES OF TEXT WITH SPECKLE PATTERNS FOR THEFT DETERRENCE - The present invention provides methods and apparatus for embedding an identifying pattern of visible speckles into the digitized image of each page of a document. A speckle is a cluster of black or white pixels. Speckles are printed as black speckles on the white paper, or conversely, as areas of missing black removed from the black text characters, called white speckles. The collective pattern of all embedded black and white speckles on a single document page is called a specklemark. A specklemark can survive contrast manipulations on photocopiers and binary rasterization done by fax scanning prior to data transmission. The random pattern of the black and white speckles visible in the digitized image of a document page can be detected automatically, and by systematically matching the detected pattern with those known to have been embedded into marked copies of a document page, a specific document copy can be identified. Methods for composing, embedding and detecting specklemarks are the subject of this patent. | 01-22-2009 |
Frederick Cole Mintzer, Shrub Oak, NY US
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20080212824 | Protecting images with an image watermark - A robust means of watermarking a digitized image with a highly random sequence of pixel brightness multipliers is presented. The random sequence is formed from ‘robust-watermarking-parameters’ selected and known only by the marker and/or the marking entity. A watermarking plane is generated which has an element array with one-to-one element correspondence to the pixels of the digitized image being marked. Each element of the watermarking plane is assigned a random value dependent upon a robust random sequence and a specified brightness modulation strength. The so generated watermarking plane is imparted onto the digitized image by multiplying the brightness value or values of each pixel by its corresponding element value in the watermarking plane. The resulting modified brightness values impart the random and relatively invisible watermark onto the digitized image. Brightness alteration is the essence of watermark imparting. Detection of an imparted watermark requires knowing the watermarking plane with which the watermark was imparted. Regeneration of the watermarking plane requires knowledge of the robust-marking-parameters used in its formulation. This is generally only known to the marker and/or marking entity. Once regenerated the watermarking plane is used together with a verifying image located in a ‘visualizer’ to demonstrate the existence of the watermark. | 09-04-2008 |
20080225326 | POLICY BASED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR OPTIMIZING OUTPUT DEVICE SUBMISSION, USE AND WAIT TIMES - Disclosed is a system and method for optimizing submission of output jobs to a network of output devices, using an output job manager to assign jobs to devices. The assignments are done automatically, based on policies associated with users, output devices, organizations responsible for the output devices, and the system as a whole. User output preferences are expressed as one or more user policies. System and organizational constraints associated with users and output devices and the managing of groups of output devices are also expressed as policies. An optimizing scheduler calculates tradeoffs between user preferences, and factors in constraints to optimize submission of jobs to output devices, and to optimize use and wait times on the output devices. | 09-18-2008 |
Meredith Mintzer, College Station, TX US
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20100093094 | TRIAZINE DENDRIMERS AND METHODS OF MAKING AND USING THE SAME FOR NUCLEIC ACID TRANSPORT - According to one embodiment, the disclosure relates to a dendrimer complex usable for transfection of a cell and including a nucleic acid to be transfected non-covalently bound to a triazine dendrimer vector. According to another embodiment, the disclosure provides a method of transfecting a cell by contacting the cell with a dendrimer complex as described above. After the contact, the dendrimer complex enters the cell. According to a third embodiment, the disclosure relates to a method of making a triazine dendrimer complex for cell transfection by covalently bonding a series of triazine monomers to a central monomer through a series of reactions to form a triazine dendrimer, then non-covalently bonding a nucleic acid to the dendrimer to form a triazine dendrimer complex operable to transfect a cell. | 04-15-2010 |
M. Jon Mintzer, Carmel, IN US
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20080295224 | Audio broadcasting hat - A hat incorporates an audio system configured to externally broadcast audio stored by the audio system. The hat includes a digital audio player such as an MP3 player or the like that is connected to speakers of the audio system. The speakers are mounted in pivoting flaps of the hat such that the flaps and thus the speakers are movable into an open position and a closed position. In the open position the speakers are positioned to externally broadcast audio and in the closed position the speakers are positioned to internally play audio for the wearer or not play audio at all. The hat also incorporates user controls for the digital audio player in the brim of the hat. The hat may also include a light system that is controlled by an integral light controller for various light effects with a user control incorporated in the brim of the hat. The light system preferably includes one or more LEDs that are mounted on a front of the hat and connected to the light controller. The light controller may be associated with the audio system to provide light effects in concert with the audio being played. | 12-04-2008 |
Robert A. Mintzer, Knoxville, TN US
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20090072149 | Magnetically retained Interchangeable Collimators for Scintillation Cameras - A grid suitable for being positioned and held in relation to a detector has positive positioning means and at least one magnet for holding the grid. | 03-19-2009 |
20090074281 | Method for Energy Calculation and Pileup Determination for Continuously Sampled Nuclear Pulse Processing - A method for processing events in a medical imaging device may comprise the steps of receiving analog signals from at least one PMT into an Applied Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) comprising a Constant Fraction Discriminator (CFD) and transmitting analog outputs from the ASIC. Further, sampling the analog outputs continuously using an Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) and transmitting digital outputs; and collecting a number of samples of the digital output during a sampling period using a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) when triggered by the CFD. The method may additionally determine the energy of the analog signals from the at lease one PMT by subtracting the peak value of each signal from the baseline value of each signal, wherein the peak value is determined as an average of at least one sample taken only around the peak during the sampling period, and the baseline value is determined as an average of at least one sample taken only around the beginning or end of the sampling period. | 03-19-2009 |
20100080339 | MODELING OF THE POINT-SPREAD-FUNCTION IN SINGLE-PINHOLE AND MULTI-PINHOLE SPECT RECONSTRUCTION - A system and method for reconstructing single photon emission computed tomography data acquired with a pinhole collimator includes sub-dividing each voxel in the imaging target object space into sub-voxels and sub-dividing each of the detector bins in the gamma camera detector into sub-bins, connecting the centers of each of the sub-voxels to each of the detector sub-bins through a pinhole provided in the pinhole collimator by ray tracing and for each ray connecting the centers of each of the sub-voxels to each of the detector sub-bins, the transmission probability is calculated by analytically solving the intersections between the ray and the pinhole surfaces. Then, a geometric-response-function of the pinhole collimator is computed which is then convolved with the intrinsic-response-function of the detector to obtain the PSF. | 04-01-2010 |
20130020487 | Depth-of-Interaction in an Imaging Device | 01-24-2013 |
Timothy Mintzer, Aumsville, OR US
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20100001848 | Secure Modular Applicators to Commission Wireless Sensors - The present invention improves systems and devices for commissioning wireless tags, RFID tags, and wireless sensors. The present invention benefits wireless sensors that are not directly part of a demand printed label. In one embodiment RFID tags are pre-loaded into cartridges prior to consumption. This improvement adds significant convenience of loading RFID tags and enhances overall reliability of handling and applying the RFID tags. Accordingly, the present invention includes methods and devices that enable application and distribution of RFID tags in pre-loaded cartridges that are ready-to-use. | 01-07-2010 |
20110018689 | SECURE MODULAR APPLICATORS TO COMMISION WIRELESS SENSORS - The present invention includes novel systems and devices for commissioning wireless tags, RFID tags, and wireless sensors. The present invention benefits wireless sensors that are not directly part of a demand printed label. In one embodiment RFID tags or inlays are pre-loaded into cartridges prior to consumption and an encoder mechanism and corresponding antenna encodes and verifies the programmable RFID tags within the cartridges. This improvement adds significant convenience of loading RFID tags and enhances overall reliability of handling and applying the RFID tags. Accordingly, the present invention includes methods and devices that enable application and distribution of RFID tags in pre-loaded cartridges that are ready-to-use. | 01-27-2011 |