Thomas J Mccarthy

US Patent:

7359565, Apr 15, 2008

Filed:

May 3, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/836255

Inventors:

Krishna C. Ratakonda - Yorktown Heights NY, US
Cesar A. Gonzales - Katonah NY, US
Thomas A. Horvath - Stormville NY, US
Thomas McCarthy - Cortlandt Manor NY, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06K 9/40
G06K 9/46

US Classification:

382260, 382232, 382254, 382275

Abstract:

A method and apparatus, particularly suited to SIMD instruction sets, to filter streaming video information encoded under a predictive encoding algorithm specified under video encoding standards, such as MPEG 4 or H. 264/AVC. The filtering operation de-blocks or removes unwanted borders in the perceived video. During the filtering process, a series of filtering mask is generated based on temporal and spatial statistics of predictive encoded video information, which is then recursively applied to the video in order to gate filtered or unfiltered video to an output channel according to coefficients of the masks. The filtering mask effectively yields a decision or rule-based map that transforms the video on a pixel-by-pixel basis thereby avoiding complex and processor-intensive decision tree logic customarily required to process individual pixels of successive macroblocks that may have different filtering requirements.

US Patent:

8055091, Nov 8, 2011

Filed:

Jan 25, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/010449

Inventors:

Krishna C. Ratakonda - Yorktown Heights NY, US
Cesar A. Gonzales - Katonah NY, US
Thomas A. Horvath - Stormville NY, US
Thomas McCarthy - Cortlandt Manor NY, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06K 9/40
G06K 9/46
G06K 9/00
G06K 9/38
H04B 1/66
H04N 7/12

US Classification:

382260, 382232, 382251, 382261, 382270, 375240, 3483841

Abstract:

A method and apparatus, particularly suited to SIMD instruction sets, to filter streaming video information encoded under a predictive encoding algorithm specified under video encoding standards, such as MPEG 4 or H. 264/AVC. The filtering operation de-blocks or removes unwanted borders in the perceived video. During the filtering process, a series of filtering mask is generated based on temporal and spatial statistics of predictive encoded video information, which is then recursively applied to the video in order to gate filtered or unfiltered video to an output channel according to coefficients of the masks. The filtering mask effectively yields a decision or rule-based map that transforms the video on a pixel-by-pixel basis thereby avoiding complex and processor-intensive decision tree logic customarily required to process individual pixels of successive macroblocks that may have different filtering requirements.

US Patent:

20030195776, Oct 16, 2003

Filed:

Apr 10, 2002

Appl. No.:

10/120296

Inventors:

William Moore - Old Greenwich CT, US
Thomas McCarthy - Norwalk CT, US

Assignee:

Swiss Re Life & Health America Inc.

International Classification:

G06F017/60

US Classification:

705/004000

Abstract:

A method for processing a life insurance facultative case summary submission over a network between a ceding company and a reinsurer. Initially, a facultative case summary submission is received by the reinsurer from the ceding company via the network. Thereafter, a facultative decision is rendered by the reinsurer based on the received facultative case summary submission. Because the information is summarized and sent electronically or via voice message, less information is processed in a faster period of time thereby rendering quicker decisions than when the complete case history is submitted to the reinsurer for review.

US Patent:

20050229132, Oct 13, 2005

Filed:

Mar 26, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/810294

Inventors:

Derrick Butt - San Leandro CA, US
Bruce Cochrane - San Jose CA, US
Hui Seto - San Jose CA, US
William Lau - Foster City CA, US
Thomas McCarthy - Cary NC, US

Assignee:

LSI Logic Corporation - Milpitas CA

International Classification:

G06F017/50

US Classification:

716010000

Abstract:

A macro cell is provided for an integrated circuit design having an input-output (IO) region with a plurality of IO buffer cells physically dispersed with other cells in IO slots along an interface portion of the IO region. The macro cell includes a plurality of macro cell IO signal slots that are physically dispersed so as to substantially align with the IO buffer cells in the interface portion. The macro cell also includes an interface definition having a plurality of interface IO signal nets, which are routed to corresponding ones of the plurality of macro cell signal slots. The macro cell is adapted to be instantiated as a unit in the integrated circuit design.

US Patent:

52895777, Feb 22, 1994

Filed:

Jun 4, 1992

Appl. No.:

7/894121

Inventors:

Cesar A. Gonzales - Somers NY
Thomas A. Horvath - Stormville NY
Norman H. Kreitzer - Yorktown Heights NY
Andy G. Lean - Merrick NY
Thomas McCarthy - Peekskill NY

Assignee:

International Business Machines Incorporated - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 314

US Classification:

395163

Abstract:

A sequential process-pipeline (12) has a first processing stage (30) coupled to a CODEC (24) through a plurality of buffers, including an image data input buffer (28), an image data output buffer (26), and an address buffer (34). The address buffer stores addresses, each of which identifies an initial address of a block of addresses within an image memory (22). Each block of addresses in the image memory stores a block of decompressed image data. A local controller (18) is responsive to the writing of an address into the address buffer to initiate the operation of the CODEC to execute a Discrete Cosine Transformation Process and a Discrete Cosine Transformation Quantization Process.

US Patent:

45085129, Apr 2, 1985

Filed:

Oct 25, 1982

Appl. No.:

6/436719

Inventors:

B. J. Maria Girsch - St. Paul MN
Charles W. Girsch - St. Paul MN
Thomas C. McCarthy - Lincoln RI

Assignee:

Hasbro Industries, Inc. - Pawtucket RI

International Classification:

G09B 1900

US Classification:

434259

Abstract:

A shape-matching educational toy apparatus includes a first plate having a plurality of different shape apertures therein and a plurality of block elements of corresponding shapes which are receivable in the apertures. The block elements are retained in the apertures by resilient retaining elements until a second plate engages the block elements to push them therethrough. The second plate is hingedly attached to the first plate but resiliently upwardly displaceable relative thereto whereby when an obstruction such as a child's finger is interposed between the plates, injury is avoided.

US Patent:

50015591, Mar 19, 1991

Filed:

Oct 12, 1989

Appl. No.:

7/420783

Inventors:

Cesar A. Gonzales - Mahopac NY
Thomas McCarthy - Peekskill NY

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

H04N 712

US Classification:

358133

Abstract:

A system and method for improving the quality of decoded images, without any cost to compression efficiency, in both progressive still frame and motion video applications wherein the images are coded with intraframe transform based coding techniques, such as Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) coding. Prediction of the AC components is utilized and operations are performed on the AC coefficient prediction in the decoder portions of the system in combination with a thresholding technique. Input images are subdivided into blocks of pixels, which are changed into blocks of coefficients by forward transform coding resulting in DC coefficients, representative of the average value in a block of pixels, and AC coefficients, representative of harmonic frequencies from the block, whereupon the predicted coefficient values are thresholded and the thresholded coefficient values are added to their corresponding transform coefficient values for the given block. These steps are repeated for all of the blocks of the image and the image representation is recovered by applying an inverse transform operation to the results of all of the additions for all of the blocks of the image.

US Patent:

46221247, Nov 11, 1986

Filed:

Jan 11, 1985

Appl. No.:

6/690649

Inventors:

John H. Kreisher - Ridgefield CT
Thomas L. McCarthy - Cheshire CT

Assignee:

International Biotechnologies, Inc. - New Haven CT

International Classification:

G01N 2728

US Classification:

204301

Abstract:

A device for the horizontal electroblotting of electrophoretically transferred material comprising a fluid tight container having a floor, a lid and side walls extending between the floor and the lid for defining a chamber, a support assembly located in the chamber for supporting the material to be electroblotted, a first electrode provided below the support assembly and a second electrode provided above the support assembly and a barrier provided in the chamber between the first electrode and the support assembly for diverting bubbles produced by the first electrode so as to prevent the bubbles from accumulating on the support assembly during the electroblotting of the electrophoretically transferred material.