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Brad Hinkel, Kirkland, WA US
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| 20090285480 | MULTI-CHANNEL EDGE-AWARE CHROMINANCE NOISE REDUCTION - Noise in an image is reduced in a manner that takes into account edge information in one or more channels of the image. A first image is received that is formatted according to a red-green-blue (RGB) color model. The first image is converted from the RGB color model to a second color model that includes at least a luminance channel, a first chrominance channel, and a second chrominance channel that are representative of the first image. The first and second chrominance channels are each denoised in a manner that accounts at least for edge information in the luminance channel, and may also include edge information from other channels in a manner that accounts for per-channel noise characteristics. The luminance channel and denoised first and second chrominance channels are converted to a second image formatted according to the RGB color model that is a noise-reduced version of the first image. | 11-19-2009 |
Bradley Hinkel, Kirkland, WA US
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| 20090220169 | IMAGE ENHANCEMENT - A bilateral filter is implemented to allow a digital image to be enhanced while mitigating the formation of ringing artifacts or halos within the image. The bilateral filter allows the digital image to be decomposed into a detail feature image and a large-scale feature image, where the image's textures are primarily comprised within the detail image, and the image's edges are primarily comprised within the large-scale feature image. By decomposing the image into these two sub-images and then globally scaling their respective magnitudes, it is possible to adjust the textures within the image substantially independent of the edges in the image and vice versa. This allows the apparent amount of texture in the scene to be enhanced while mitigating the formation of ringing artifacts or halos around edges in the image. | 09-03-2009 |
Bradley Lawrence Hinkel, Kirkland, WA US
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| 20100201886 | SATURATION CONTRAST IMAGE ENHANCEMENT - A digital imaging tool and a method for enhancing, or adjusting, a saturation contrast of a digital image is provided. The digital imaging tool may convert an original color space of a digital image to a second color space having a saturation channel. The digital imaging tool may define a function based, at least partially, on one or more user-provided parameters. Saturation values of pixels of the digital image, in the second color space, may be adjusted, or enhanced, by applying each of the saturation values to the defined function to produce corresponding enhanced saturation values. The second color space then may be converted back to the original color space and a saturation-enhanced version of the digital image may be presented and/or saved. | 08-12-2010 |
Gerhard Hinkel, Igensdorf DE
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| 20110043195 | MAGNETIC DISPLACEMENT SENSOR - A magnetic displacement sensor, where, in order to achieve an improved measurement behavior, magnets are formed in a direction of an x-axis such that a z-component (B | 02-24-2011 |
Jerald J. Hinkel, Houston, TX US
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| 20090118143 | Methods for Manipulation of the Flow of Fluids in Subterranean Formations - A method of treating a subterranean formation penetrated by a wellbore to mitigate the production of unwanted fluids from the wellbore is carried out by forming a treatment fluid containing at least one of an oil-wetting or water-repelling surfactant and a carrier fluid. The treatment fluid is then introduced into the wellbore. The treatment or treatments may be performed remedially or prophylacticaly. The treatment may include the completion and production of zones containing the undesirable fluid(s) and the deliberate formation of cones therein. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20090118144 | Methods for Manipulation of Air Flow into Aquifers - A method of treating a subterranean formation penetrated by a wellbore to mitigate the production of unwanted air from the wellbore is carried out by forming a treatment fluid containing a water-wetting surfactant and a carrier fluid. The treatment fluid is then introduced into the wellbore. The treatment or treatments may be performed remedially or prophylacticaly. The treatment may include the completion and production of zones containing the undesirable air and the deliberate formation of cones therein. | 05-07-2009 |
| 20100096128 | ENHANCING HYDROCARBON RECOVERY - Recovery of hydrocarbon fluid from low permeability sources is enhanced by introduction of a treating fluid. The treating fluid may include one or more constituent ingredients designed to cause displacement of hydrocarbon via imbibition. The constituent ingredients may be determined based on estimates of formation wettability. Further, contact angle may be used to determine wettability. Types and concentrations of constituent ingredients such as surfactants may be determined for achieving the enhanced recovery of hydrocarbons. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100096129 | METHOD OF HYDROCARBON RECOVERY - A method is given for treating a wellbore to increase the production of hydrocarbons from a subterranean formation penetrated by a wellbore, involving a period of injecting into the formation an aqueous injection fluid having a different chemical potential than the aqueous fluid in the formation. If there is water blocking, an osmotic gradient is deliberately created to cause flow of water into the injected fluid; hydrocarbon is then produced by imbibition. If the pore pressure in the water-containing pores in the formation is too low, an osmotic gradient is deliberately created so that water flows from the injected fluid into the water-containing pores, increasing the pore pressure and facilitating hydrocarbon production by imbibition. The method may be repeated cyclically. A semipermeable membrane may be created to enhance the osmosis. Wetting agents may be used to influence imbibition. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20110108271 | ENHANCING HYDROCARBON RECOVERY - Recovery of hydrocarbon fluid from low permeability sources enhanced by introduction of a treating fluid is described. The treating fluid may include one or more constituent ingredients designed to cause displacement of hydrocarbon via imbibition. The constituent ingredients may be determined based on estimates of formation wettability. Further, contact angle may be used to determine wettability. Types and concentrations of constituent ingredients such as surfactants may be determined for achieving the enhanced recovery of hydrocarbons. The selection can be based on imbibition testing on material that has been disaggregated from the source formation. | 05-12-2011 |
Joseph Hinkel, Bettembourg LU
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| 20120031814 | RECYCLING OF ARTIFICIAL TURF - Method and device for recovering synthetic turf installed on a surface, the synthetic turf comprising a backing in which are incorporated fibers and one or more infill particle layers, in which the synthetic turf is raised and continuously cut into strips, the strips cut in this manner are then lifted and progressively turned back to cause the infill particles to fall into the recovery tank, the strips then being relaid on the ground or wound up. | 02-09-2012 |
Ralf Hinkel, Hoeringen DE
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| 20100293318 | METHOD FOR MEMORY MANAGEMENT - The invention relates to a method for memory management, in which memory usage data relating to the use of the memory is recorded. The memory usage data is determined in response to a number of memory write and/or read accesses. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20110285812 | METHOD FOR GENERATING VIDEO DATA STREAM - The invention relates to a method for generating video stream data relating to different fields of vision from a camera having a sensor which records high resolution images in a distorted manner. According to the invention, image corrections are performed for separate fields of vision, and a total video stream is output from the differently corrected image data. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20120002048 | OMNIBUS CAMERA - The invention relates to a camera arrangement having at least one wide-angle camera for monitoring an elongated space, and to a mount for the camera. It is provided in this case that the mount is designed for directing the wide-angle camera with a field of view of low distortion onto distant parts of space, and for directing the wide-angle camera with a field of view of higher distortion onto closer parts of space. | 01-05-2012 |
Ralf Hinkel, Horingen DE
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| 20090067674 | Monitoring device - The invention concerns a monitoring device with a multi-camera device and an object tracking device for the high resolution observation of moving objects. Hereby it is provided that the object tracking device comprises an image integration device for the generation of a total image from the individual images of the multi-camera device and a cut-out definition device for the definition, independent from the borders of the individual images, of the to be observed cut-out. | 03-12-2009 |
Sabine Hinkel, Loffingen-Bachheim DE
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| 20110235918 | METHOD FOR AN IR-RADIATION -- BASED TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT AND IR-RADIATION -- BASED TEMPERATURE MEASURING DEVICE - In a temperature measuring device ( | 09-29-2011 |
Wolfram Hinkel, Angelbachtal DE
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| 20110145789 | APPLICATION CONFIGURATION DEPLOYMENT MONITOR - Various embodiments include at least one of systems, methods, and software for monitoring application instance configurations and deployments. One such embodiment, in the form of a method includes executing, on at least one processor, an application deployment process to deploy at least one set of configuration settings stored in a memory device of an application configuration environment to an application instance in an application execution environment. The method may also include writing and storing data to a deployment log representative of application deployment process actions performed and an indicator of success of each of the performed actions. The deployment log data may then be retrieved from the data storage device and a view may be generated and presented providing a summary of actions performed and actions that were not successful. Other embodiments are described herein. | 06-16-2011 |