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:

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:

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.

US Patent:

43503772, Sep 21, 1982

Filed:

Mar 13, 1980

Appl. No.:

6/130022

Inventors:

Thomas D. McCarthy - Norwalk CT

International Classification:

E05C 1754

US Classification:

292288

Abstract:

A lock device and method for securing first and second bodies, such as window sashes, which are mounted for relative sliding movement, in a fixed relative position are disclosed. Each of the bodies has a hole extending transversely to the direction of the sliding movement. The holes are arranged to be axially aligned when the bodies are in the fixed relative position. The lock includes an elongate bolt insertable into the holes when they are aligned to prevent relative sliding movement between the bodies. The lock further includes a handle and a device for releasably axially attaching the handle to the bolt so that the bolt may be inserted into and withdrawn from the holes when aligned and so that the handle may be released from the bolt after insertion into the holes.

US Patent:

54505992, Sep 12, 1995

Filed:

Jun 4, 1992

Appl. No.:

7/894312

Inventors:

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

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 1300

US Classification:

395800

Abstract:

A sequential process-pipeline 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 image data input buffer stores, for each block of image data, control information for controlling the processing of an associated block of image data. The address buffer stores addresses, each of which identifies an initial address of a block of addresses within an image memory (22). A local controller (18) is responsive to the writing of an address into the address buffer to read the control information for a block to be processed, and to initiate the operation of the CODEC, in accordance with the read-out information, to execute a Discrete Cosine Transformation Process and a Discrete Cosine Transformation Quantization Process.

US Patent:

20180057477, Mar 1, 2018

Filed:

Mar 9, 2016

Appl. No.:

15/556593

Inventors:

- Basel, CH
Thomas David MCCARTHY - Westport CT, US
Alan NAYLOR - Royston, Hertfordshire, GB
John Paul WATTS - Southwell, Nottingham, GB

Assignee:

NOVARTIS AG - Basel

International Classification:

C07D 401/04
C07D 413/04

Abstract:

The present invention relates to heterocyclic compounds useful for antagonising angiotensin II Type 2 (AT) receptor. More particularly the invention relates to compounds of formula (I), as described herein, compositions containing them and their CM use in methods of treating or preventing disorders or diseases associated with ATreceptor function including neuropathic pain, inflammatory pain, conditions associated with neuronal hypersensitivity, impaired nerve conduction velocity, cell proliferation disorders, disorders associated with an imbalance between bone resorption and bone formation and disorders associated with aberrant nerve regeneration.