Nicholas E Johnson

US Patent:

7857693, Dec 28, 2010

Filed:

Jun 18, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/764603

Inventors:

Nicholas Johnson - Stanford CA, US
Bryan D. Wolf - Reno NV, US

Assignee:

IGT - Reno NV

International Classification:

A63F 9/24

US Classification:

463 13, 463 25, 463 30, 463 43

Abstract:

A gaming system which provides a predetermined outcome to a player. The gaming device a plurality of playing cards in a plurality of playing card positions to form an initial primary poker hand. The gaming device enables the player to select one or more of the initially dealt playing cards in the primary poker hand to hold or to discard, wherein the held playing cards in the primary hand are also held in one, more or each of a plurality of simultaneously played poker hands. The gaming device evaluates the set of held playing cards and determines, possibly utilizing at least one stored table of solutions, the appropriate playing cards to generate in the appropriate playing card positions to form a plurality of poker hands with a total combined payout equal to the selected predetermined game outcome value.

US Patent:

8271040, Sep 18, 2012

Filed:

Feb 11, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/526893

Inventors:

Neil Philip Piercy - Royston, GB
Akhilesh Pokhariyal - Isleworth, GB
Nicholas Dougall Johnson - San Francisco CA, US

Assignee:

IP. Access Limited - Cambridgeshire

International Classification:

H04B 7/00

US Classification:

455560, 455522, 455 6711

Abstract:

A network element () for communicating with a wireless communication unit () in a communication cell () of a communication system () comprises a receiver arranged to perform a frequency sweep across a plurality of operational frequencies. Signal processing logic (), operably coupled to the receiver, processes the received signals from the frequency sweep and providing an estimate of a level of interference at a number of frequency carriers of the swept frequencies. The signal processing logic () is capable of determining whether a transmit power level at a frequency selected from the processed frequency sweep satisfies at least one predetermined quality criterion of the communication system (). A transmitter () is arranged, upon initial activation of the network element (), to transmit to a wireless communication unit at the determined transmit power level.

US Patent:

20110036822, Feb 17, 2011

Filed:

Aug 11, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/854888

Inventors:

Nicholas Johnson - Oakland CA, US

International Classification:

A45D 1/04

US Classification:

219201, 219225

Abstract:

The problem of noxious fume generation during chemical treatment of hair using a hair iron is solved by providing a fume intake on the hair iron near the point of fume generation, preferably near the iron's heating elements. The fume intake receives the fumes and delivers them to the fume removal passage under vacuum flow generated by a vacuum source, then transported to a filtration system or exhausted to the outside environment. Optionally, the fume intake may extend along the length of the heating element and may be directed downward, towards the hair. Optionally, the fume removal device may be attachable as a retrofit to a standard hair iron. The present invention advantageously prevents the spread of the noxious fumes to the rest of the salon and protects both the stylist and client from discomfort and irritation, thus permitting the more widespread use of these beneficial hair treatments.

US Patent:

20130085728, Apr 4, 2013

Filed:

Jun 1, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/487064

Inventors:

Hua Tang - Stanford CA, US
Michael Snyder - Stanford CA, US
Jennifer Li-Pook-Than - Menlo Park CA, US
Konrad J. Karczewski - Stanford CA, US
Nicholas Johnson - Palo Alto CA, US
Wing H. Wong - Stanford CA, US

Assignee:

The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University - Palo Alto CA

International Classification:

G06F 19/00

US Classification:

703 2, 703 11

Abstract:

The present disclosure presents a unified system to phase a personal genome for downstream clinical interpretation. In an embodiment, an initial phasing is generated using public datasets, such as haplotypes from the 1000 Genomes Project, and a phasing toolkit. A local perturbation algorithm is applied to improve long range phasing. If available, a Mendelian inheritance pipeline is applied to identify phasing of novel and rare variants. These datasets are merged, followed by correction by any experimental data. This allows for full clinical interpretation of the role of a group of variants in a gene, whether inherited or de novo variants.

US Patent:

20130297221, Nov 7, 2013

Filed:

Jun 1, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/486982

Inventors:

Nicholas Johnson - Palo Alto CA, US
Wing H. Wong - Stanford CA, US
Hua Tang - Stanford CA, US

Assignee:

The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University - Palo Alto CA

International Classification:

G06F 19/22

US Classification:

702 20

Abstract:

In an embodiment of the present invention, a modified version of the PHASE model is implemented that is substantially more accurate than the FastPHASE model. Modifications in an embodiment of the present invention include using a parameterization EM algorithm similar to that of the FastPHASE model, and to perform optimization on haplotypes rather than MCMC sampling. In an embodiment, the imputed haplotypes themselves are used as hidden states in the HMM because this is believed to be important for the PHASE model's accuracy. This increase in accuracy becomes more pronounced with increasing sample size. This difference is attributed to the PHASE model's likelihood which produces long, shared haplotypes between pairs of individuals.

US Patent:

20220414808, Dec 29, 2022

Filed:

Dec 11, 2019

Appl. No.:

17/778142

Inventors:

- Mountain View CA, US
Thomas Bugnon - Zurich, CH
Keith Wedelich - San Francisco CA, US
George Huang - San Francisco CA, US
Jacob Levine - San Francisco CA, US
Sha Chang - Los Angeles CA, US
Julian Bill - San Francisco CA, US
Arthur Gaudriot - Queenstown, SG
Nicholas Bryan Johnson - San Francisco CA, US
Vishaal Prasad - Mountain View CA, US

International Classification:

G06Q 50/18

Abstract:

Methods, systems, and media for determining and presenting information related to embedded sound recordings are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: receiving a content item; extracting a sound recording from the content item; generating a melody fingerprint of the extracted sound recording; determining whether the melody fingerprint of the extracted sound recording matches one of a plurality of clusters of similar sounding sound recordings in a reference database, wherein each cluster in the plurality of clusters of similar sounding sound recordings is associated with ownership information based on a plurality of ownership information associated with each of the sound recordings in the cluster; in response to determining that the melody fingerprint of the extracted sound recording matches a cluster of similar sounding sound recordings, retrieving ownership information associated with the cluster; mapping the ownership information to the sound recording extracted from the content item; and causing an action to be performed on the content item based on the mapped ownership information

US Patent:

20200033441, Jan 30, 2020

Filed:

Jul 25, 2018

Appl. No.:

16/045354

Inventors:

- San Diego CA, US
Nicholas T. Johnson - San Diego CA, US
Nicholas A. Lumsden - Escondido CA, US
Colin J. O'Brien - San Diego CA, US

Assignee:

United States of America as represented by Secretary of the Navy - San Diego CA

International Classification:

G01S 7/282

Abstract:

A radar pulse generator includes a multiplexer, a polyphase synthesizer, a first signal channel and a second signal channel. The multiplexer has a baseband radar pulse input, a multiplexer control input, a first channel output and a second channel output. The baseband radar pulse input signal is a single channel baseband radar pulse signal. The multiplexer control input signal selects one of the group consisting of the first channel output and the second channel output. The polyphase synthesizer synthesizes the first channel output signal, synthesizes the second channel output signal and outputs a desired radar pulse signal based on the synthesized first channel output signal and the synthesized second channel output signal. The first signal channel provides the first channel output signal from the first channel output to the polyphase synthesizer. The second signal channel provides the second channel output signal from the second channel output to the polyphase synthesizer.

US Patent:

20170279643, Sep 28, 2017

Filed:

Mar 24, 2017

Appl. No.:

15/468168

Inventors:

- San Diego CA, US
Nicholas T. Johnson - San Diego CA, US
Nicholas A. Lumsden - Escondido CA, US

Assignee:

United States of America as represented by Secretary of the Navy - San Diego CA

International Classification:

H04L 27/00
H04L 27/233

Abstract:

A signal detection method that allows characterization of a modulated signal to be efficiently determined. The method comprises the steps of receiving a data signal, processing the data signal to determine its value squaring the value of the signal; filtering the squared signal value to remove DC content; evaluating the resulting signal to determine if a single sinusoidal value remains; and determining that the presence of a single sinusoidal value as the resulting signal from the squaring and filtering steps indicates that the received data signal is a phase-shift key signal or conversely that the absence of such after a given number of cycle of squaring and filtering indicates a different modulation technique is present in the signal.