Wyman, CA
Charles E. Wyman, Riverside, CA US
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20100105570 | Multi-Chamber Pretreatment Reactor for High Throughput Screening of Biomass - The disclosure provides reactors for rapid pretreatment of multiple biomass samples in a simple, process-driven, high throughput screening assay. This disclosure also provides methods and systems for rapid, high-throughput pretreatment and subsequent enzyme hydrolysis testing of multiple biomass samples. | 04-29-2010 |
20100279361 | TWO-STAGE METHOD FOR PRETREATMENT OF LIGNOCELLULOSIC BIOMASS - One aspect of the invention relates to a process, comprising treating lignocellulosic biomass according to a first pretreatment protocol, thereby generating a first product mixture; separating the first product mixture into a first plurality of fractions; and treating at least one fraction of said first plurality of fractions according to a second pretreatment protocol, thereby generating a second product mixture. In one embodiment, the lignocellulosic biomass is selected from the group consisting of grass, switch grass, cord grass, rye grass, reed canary grass, miscanthus, sugar-processing residues, sugarcane bagasse, agricultural wastes, rice straw, rice hulls, barley straw, corn cobs, cereal straw, wheat straw, canola straw, oat straw, oat hulls, corn fiber, stover, soybean stover, corn stover, forestry wastes, recycled wood pulp protocol protocol fiber, paper sludge, sawdust, hardwood, softwood, and combinations thereof. | 11-04-2010 |
20110076725 | Lignin Blockers And Uses Thereof - Disclosed is a method for converting cellulose in a lignocellulosic biomass. The method provides for a lignin-blocking polypeptide and/or protein treatment of high lignin solids. The treatment enhances cellulase availability in cellulose conversion and allows for the determination of optimized pretreatment conditions. Additionally, ethanol yields from a Simultaneous Saccharification and Fermentation process are improved 5-25% by treatment with a lignin-blocking polypeptide and/or protein. | 03-31-2011 |
20110201084 | ENZYMATIC HYDROLYSIS OF CELLULOSIC BIOMASS THROUGH ENHANCED REMOVAL OF OLIGOMERS - The methods and composition of the disclosure are directed to the reducing cellulase inhibition by xylooligomers through adding hemicellulase enzymes that break xylooligomers down to monomeric sugars with a corresponding increase in glucose release. What was heretofore unknown is that xylobiose and higher xylooligomers inhibit enzymatic hydrolysis of any lignocellulosic biomass (plant material) used as feed stocks for commercial ethanol production, including, but not limited to, corn stover, birch wood, switchgrass, poplar wood, Miscanthus, aspen, other grasses and woody plants, and many other types of agricultural and forestry residues, as well as municipal solid waste. In addition, the examples herein show that xylobiose and xylotriose have progressively greater effects on hydrolysis rates. In accordance with the disclosure, the addition of one or more hemicellulase enzymes, such as xylanase and β-xylosidase, to a lignocellulosic biomass significantly improves hydrolysis performance. | 08-18-2011 |
Matthew E. Wyman, San Mateo, CA US
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20110258012 | DYNAMIC WORKFLOW ARCHITECTURES FOR LOAN PROCESSING - Systems and methods are provided for processing loan applications in dynamic workflows. In a preferred embodiment, a system calls an activity engine with a top-level activity for processing a work-item, e.g., a loan application. The activity engine decomposes the top-level activity into child activities and lower-level child activities, and recursively calls itself to process the child activities until all constituent child activities have been preformed, thus performing the original top-level activity. In the preferred embodiment, each activity, work-item, user, event and role has associated rules, wherein an event represents a change in state of an activity and a role represents a class of users of the system having shared attributes. The evaluation of the associated rules dynamically creates the flow of activities, thereby creating a dynamic workflow. | 10-20-2011 |
Matthew E. Wyman, Half Moon Bay, CA US
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20140089037 | DYNAMIC WORKFLOW ARCHITECTURES FOR LOAN PROCESSING - A method according to certain aspects includes launching a plurality of activities representing tasks to be completed in the processing of a workflow. The method can include determining that a set of the plurality of activities are not currently available for execution, and updating an output comprising a user interface based at least in part on the determination. | 03-27-2014 |
Ransome J. Wyman, Laguna Niguel, CA US
Richard H. Wyman, Sunnyvale, CA US
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20100013990 | Method and system for detecting deinterlaced moving thin diagonal lines - A system and method that detect edges that are near horizontal thin lines in interlaced video in a deinterlacer. The system may detect edges in a video image and determine whether the edges are diagonal or nearly horizontal edges. Based on the determination the system may select a filter appropriate for filtering the edge. The system may utilize a control signal that may be low or high, and may according disable or enable filtering nearly horizontal edges, respectively. | 01-21-2010 |
20120026392 | Method and System for Reducing the Appearance of Jaggies When Deinterlacing Moving Edges - A method and system for reducing the appearance of jaggies when deinterlacing moving edges in a video processing system are provided. The method may comprise detecting the direction of an angled edge in an interlaced video image to determine a filtering direction to be used for approximating absent pixels in deinterlacing the interlaced video. In detecting the direction of the angled edge, a group of windows of different sizes may be used to look at the edge, where a missing pixel is the center of each of the windows. Detecting the direction of the edge, and therefore the direction of filtering, may comprise: determining the angle associated with the edge, determining the strength of the edge, examining the pixels surrounding the absent pixel, and adjusting the first angle measure and the second angle measure based on the pattern of the surrounding pixels. | 02-02-2012 |
Richard Hayden Wyman, Sunnyvale, CA US
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20090115845 | Method and System for Inverse Telecine and Scene Change Detection of Progressive Video - Certain aspects of a method and system for inverse telecine and scene change detection of progressive video may include determining a cadence, for example, 3:2 or 2:2 pulldown, and phase of received progressive input pictures. A difference between two or more consecutive received progressive input pictures may be determined. The motion compensation of a plurality of output pictures may be controlled based on the determined cadence, phase and difference between two or more consecutive received progressive input pictures. The system may be enabled to determine repeated pictures and scene changes. The motion compensation of output pictures may be stopped during detected scene changes. | 05-07-2009 |
20090115909 | Method and System for Motion Estimation Around a Fixed Reference Vector Using a Pivot-Pixel Approach - Certain aspects of a method and system for motion estimation around a fixed reference vector using a pivot pixel approach may include pivoting each of the plurality of pixels in an output picture to perform a sub-pixel search in a plurality of directions around a reference vector. A plurality of cost values may be calculated for performing motion compensation for a plurality of pixels in the output picture along a plurality of directions around the reference vector. A motion vector may be generated corresponding to the least calculated cost for each pixel in the output picture based on the calculated plurality of cost values. | 05-07-2009 |
20090195691 | Method and system for selecting interpolation as a means of trading off judder against interpolation artifacts - A motion judder cancellation system may convert a source frame rate to an output frame rate. A repetition pattern within a sequence of source frames may be determined. Temporal position for output frames within a sequence may be based on a source frame position and a source frame interval fraction. An image blend mode such as motion vector interpolation may be determined for each output frame. Temporal position and/or image blend mode may be modified. Accordingly, motion judder and/or visible interpolation artifacts may be modified. Output frames may be generated based on the determined or modified image blend mode and/or the determined or modified temporal position of output frames. The output frames may be spaced temporally at even intervals or spacing. Frame rate may be increased and one or more repeated frames within a sequence of frames may be inserted. Generation of output frames may be programmed. | 08-06-2009 |
20140078390 | FIELD CONVERSIONS TO SLOWER VIDEO RATES - Systems and methods are provided for converting an interlaced video to a slower video rate. A method for video rate conversion may include receiving an input interlaced video having a field rate, and deinterlacing the input interlaced video at the field rate to produce a first sequence of frames corresponding to a first frame rate. The method may also include dropping frames from the first sequence of frames to produce a second sequence of frames corresponding to a second frame rate, wherein the second frame rate is slower than the first frame rate. If a progressive video output is desired, then the second sequence of frames may be used for the progressive video output. If an interlaced video output is desired, then the second sequence of frames may be interlaced into a sequence of fields corresponding to a field rate slower than the field rate of the input interlaced video. | 03-20-2014 |
20140313231 | System And Method For Graphics Upscaling - Systems and methods for upscaling graphics resolution are provided. The systems and methods may selectively upscale graphics frames having a first resolution to a second resolution by various scaling methods. Depending on a variety of factors, at least a first mode of upscaling and a second mode of upscaling may provide for improved upscaling on a variety of graphics data. | 10-23-2014 |
20140347558 | SEAMLESS TRANSITION BETWEEN INTERLACED AND PROGRESSIVE VIDEO PROFILES IN AN ABR SYSTEM - A method for seamless transition between interlaced and progressive video profiles may include receiving at a video feeder a stream of video signals for displaying on a display device. The stream of video signals may include segments of one of interlaced fields or progressive video frames. During an interlaced stream, the interlaced fields may be directed to a deinterlacer, and an output of the deinterlacer may be directed to the display device. The output of the deinterlacer may be determined based on previously received interlaced fields from the video feeder. During a transition to a progressive stream, the progressive video frames may be directed to a frame store, and the output of the deinterlacer may be directed to the display device. During a progressive stream, the progressive video frames may be directed to the frame store, and previously stored frames may be directed to the display device. | 11-27-2014 |