John C Mclaughlin

US Patent:

6947606, Sep 20, 2005

Filed:

Aug 19, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/224270

Inventors:

John McLaughlin - Los Angeles CA, US

Assignee:

Sony Corporation - Tokyo
Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. - Culver City CA

International Classification:

G06K009/36

US Classification:

382246

Abstract:

A process for compressing a two dimensional array of data including at least one array block having a plurality of block rows and a plurality of block columns of pixels, each pixel having at least one associated intensity value. The process includes generating a delta frame associated with a pair of the block columns, the delta frame having a plurality of delta rows and delta columns of delta bits, one of the delta rows being a highest order row; determining a number of duplicate rows of the delta rows, each of the duplicate rows forming an identical row byte value having delta bits which have a predetermined relationship with the delta bits of the highest order row; recording information indicative of the number of duplicate rows; and developing compressed data including the information indicative of the number of duplicate rows of the delta frame.

US Patent:

6947958, Sep 20, 2005

Filed:

Sep 19, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/955820

Inventors:

Alan L. Davidson - Marina Del Rey CA, US
Amit Agrawal - Santa Monica CA, US
James Berney - Yorba Linda CA, US
John McLaughlin - Los Angeles CA, US
Robert Engle - Los Angeles CA, US

Assignee:

Sony Corporation - Tokyo
Sony Electronics Inc. - Park Ridge NJ

International Classification:

G06F017/00

US Classification:

707203, 7071041, 707707, 707 3

Abstract:

A process is provided for documenting the contents of at least one version of a plurality of data products stored in a database, at least one of the products being a composite product having at least a portion of at least one of the data products included therein. The process includes the steps of: creating a state file to be associated with a version of a composite product to be created, the state file specifying a selected version of at least one selected data product to be used in creating the composite product; using the state file to access the selected version of the selected product from the database; creating the version of the composite product by including therein at least a portion of the selected version of the selected product; and generating a state history file associated with the version of the composite product, the state history file indicating that at least a portion of the selected version of the selected product is included within the version of the composite product. The documenting process also includes the steps of: assigning a product name to the composite product; storing the version of the composite product in the database; and storing the state history file in the database. The documenting further includes a step of assigning a version value to the version of the composite product.

US Patent:

20130036201, Feb 7, 2013

Filed:

Aug 5, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/204426

Inventors:

John Charles McLaughlin - Los Angeles CA, US

International Classification:

G06F 15/16

US Classification:

709219

Abstract:

A computer-implemented method for the creation of composite internet videos from streaming video feeds serving as an intermediary between an internet video user and a plurality of separate internet video sources. A user may invoke the service from a web page and fashion a composite video from a plurality of sources without copying or otherwise disturbing the source videos. The user's composite video is defined by an edit decision list (EDL) which specifies the location of the plurality of separate videos, the “cut in” and “cut out” locations within the separate videos where the composite video will transition between the separate videos, and an audio volume value associated with each video.

US Patent:

47859695, Nov 22, 1988

Filed:

Nov 10, 1986

Appl. No.:

6/928809

Inventors:

John T. McLaughlin - Costa Mesa CA

Assignee:

Pyxis Corporation - Newport Beach CA

International Classification:

B65D 8304

US Classification:

221 2

Abstract:

An improved medication dispensing system is provided for controlled preprogrammed dispensing of medication to a patient and for creating a retrievable patient medication record. The system includes a dispensing unit located, for example, at patient bedside within a hospital room or the like and adapted to receive a pair of medication canisters having magazines with individual cassettes which have been preloaded in a preprogrammed manner in the hospital pharmacy or the like respectively to contain scheduled and unscheduled medications for administration to the patient. The dispensing unit is programmed according to individual patient needs to signal a nurse or other personnel at selected times when scheduled medication is prescribed, whereupon the scheduled medication can be accessed for dispensing only after entry of valid nurse or other personnel identification code into a dispensing unit memory. The unscheduled medications may be accessed by the nurse or other personnel in a similar manner but on an untimed basis as required by the patient. The dispensing unit further includes sensors for detecting removal of any medication cassette and for signalling the dispensing unit memory to create a corresponding patient medication record.

US Patent:

43289789, May 11, 1982

Filed:

Sep 30, 1980

Appl. No.:

6/192616

Inventors:

John T. McLaughlin - Glendale CA

International Classification:

B42D 1500
G09F 314

US Classification:

283 7

Abstract:

The identification device takes the form of a plastic holder worn about a patient's wrist in the manner of a wristwatch. The holder itself has a fluorescent coating on the top surface emitting light. A patient identification card is positioned on this fluorescent surface, the identification card being perforated with a patient identifying number. The emitted light from the fluorescent material thus shines up through the perforations in this number. Any particular procedure to be carried out on the patient is directed in an appropriate order blank signed by a physician or other hospital personnel. Such order blank for the patient includes the patient's identification number which number is also perforated on the order blank. By then positioning the order blank portion upon which the number is perforated over the patient's identifying number in the holder, if the numbers are the same, the light will then pass through both the perforations. If the numbers are different, neither number can be properly identified and it is immediately known that the order is not for that particular patient.

US Patent:

47170425, Jan 5, 1988

Filed:

May 28, 1986

Appl. No.:

6/868660

Inventors:

John T. McLaughlin - Glendale CA

Assignee:

Pyxis Corporation - Salina Beach CA

International Classification:

B65D 8304

US Classification:

221 3

Abstract:

A medicine dispenser includes a container having a lid and a removable compartmentalized tray which can be positioned upon an interior container ledge and held within the container interior immediately beneath the lid when closed. The tray includes a series of apertures dimensioned and positioned on the periphery of the tray to interact with a corresponding series of pegs positioned on the ledge. This arrangement permits only a properly encoded tray to be positioned within the container interior. The lid is provided a plurality of spring-loaded, hinged tray compartment covers aligned directly over corresponding tray compartments, which can be selectively opened and shut to expose the contents of any desired tray compartment. The medicine dispenser is further provided a microprocessor within the container interior which, together with a control button on the lid, controls the operation of an audible and visual alarm, as well as the automatic opening of selected compartment covers.

US Patent:

48117641, Mar 14, 1989

Filed:

Oct 19, 1987

Appl. No.:

7/109591

Inventors:

John T. McLaughlin - Glendale CA

International Classification:

B65D 8304
A47B 6702

US Classification:

141 98

Abstract:

A medication dispenser station is provided for controlled access to and dispensing of a plurality of different medications. The dispenser station comprises a lockable cabinet containing multiple medication-containing cassettes associated respectively with the different medications and mounted in a vertical stack, with the cassettes having aligned discharge openings cooperatively defining an open discharge chute. Each cassette includes a tray supporting a respective one of a plurality of rotatable carousels having vertically open compartments preloaded with individual doses of a respective one of the different medications. A control unit for the dispenser station responds to appropriate data input using an externally accessible keypad to rotate a selected carousel within its associated tray to sweep the medication within one of the carousel compartments into the discharge chute. The thus-selected medication falls through the chute into an externally accessible receiver to permit removal from the dispenser station for administration to a patient.

US Patent:

D2801329, Aug 13, 1985

Filed:

Dec 2, 1982

Appl. No.:

6/446340

Inventors:

John T. McLaughlin - Glendale CA

Assignee:

Macma Incorporated - Costa Mesa CA

US Classification:

D24 31

Address:

18532 Clark St APT 104, Tarzana, CA 91356

VIN:

1FTKR1EE5APA31164

Make:

FORD

Model:

RANGER

Year:

2010