Ecullet

Opervu, Inc.

Other

Village Experts, Inc.

Farook Afsari

Kamiar Fariba

Kasra Khazeni

Ronald K Woods

Pirooz Parvarandeh

Jerry Samuel Dimsdale

Patrick Charles Flynn

Satish Dhote

Dary Kopelioff

F Scott Shook

Luis Paul Vendrell

Altanai Bisht

Beejahn Afsari

Certain embodiments may relate to apparatuses and methods for performing surgical procedures. For example, a method may comprise initiating detection and tracking of at least one surgical instrument (including associated surgical material) within a surgical area. The method may further comprise performing a surgical procedure with the at least one surgical instrument and material and ending detection and tracking of the at least one surgical instrument and material within the surgical area. The method may further comprise displaying at least one indication of location status of the at least one surgical instrument.

System and method to detect and track surgical instruments and/or surgical material

A multimedia method comprises establishing a peer connection and data channel between a local browser running on a local user device and a remote browser running on a remote user device, performing a series of remote object handling cycles, and performing a series of local object handling cycles. The local user device includes a display screen showing a conference webpage according to the local browser, the conference webpage including an object viewing window and an object tracking window. The remote object handling cycles deal with remote file objects, such as text documents and images, received from the remote user device. The local object handling cycles deal with local file objects, such as other text documents and images, sent to the remote user device.

Multimedia conferencing

A mixture of glass pieces can be evaluated by taking an image of an object from the mixture. The object has the possibility of being either a single piece of glass from the mixture or at least two pieces of glass from the mixture. By knowing how many pieces of glass are in each object, the accuracy of the evaluation can be improved. Angles of an outline of the object are determined from the image, and then the angles are evaluated to determine whether the object is at least two pieces. When it is determined that the objection is at least two pieces, it is possible to assign a characteristic, such as color type or material type, for each piece as opposed to assigning the same characteristic to the entire object.

Method and system for glass processing

A system for sorting a mixed stream of colors and types of cullet into separate groups of cullet with similar color and type includes a source for transmitting light through a cullet, and a camera having a plurality of pixels for receiving light transmitted through the cullet or detecting the absence of light blocked by an opaque contaminant, the camera providing at least one value from the light received, wherein the cullet moves along a designated path based in part on the at least one value. The system further includes a radiation source for irradiating a cullet with selected spectral ranges of radiation, and a sensor for determining characteristics of one or more selected spectral ranges of fluorescent radiation emitted by the cullet, wherein the cullet moves along a designated path based in part on the characteristics of the one or more selected spectral ranges of fluorescent radiation. The camera and the sensor collect the received light at desired sampling intervals and a circuit converts the output of the camera and the sensor into digital representation values. The circuit calculates a non-linear function from the digital representation values. An electrostatic or fluid driving actuator directs the cullet along a deflected path based on a value of the non-linear function. A vibratory feeder provides the cullet onto a conveyer belt having an exit roller of a desired diameter.

Method of and apparatus for type and color sorting of cullet

A method and system for sorting different colored objects, preferably glass cullets, into separate groups of same colored objects comprising a plurality of sorting devices for receiving an input feed of different colored objects and sorting the different colored objects based on their light transmission properties into a plurality of output feeds, wherein at least one output feed in the plurality of output feeds is a subsequent input feed to one or more sorting devices in the plurality. The one or more sorting devices sort the at least one subsequent input feed into a plurality of further sorted output feeds. At least one of the plurality of sorting devices is a final sorting device, wherein the final sorting device sorts one or more subsequent input feeds into a plurality of final output feeds. The output feeds preferably contain objects of a desired color, undesired objects and flint objects.

Method of and apparatus for multi-stage sorting of glass cullets

A system for sorting a mixed stream of different colored cullet into separate groups of same colored cullet comprises a light emitting source for transmitting light, such as white light, through a cullet, and a camera having a plurality of pixels for receiving light transmitted through the cullet or detecting the absence of light blocked by an opaque contaminant, the camera providing at least one value from the light received, wherein the cullet moves along a designated path based on the at least one value. The camera collects the received light at a desired sampling interval and a circuit converts the values into digital representation values. The circuit calculates a non-linear function from the digital representation values. An electrostatic or fluid driving actuator directs the cullet along a deflected path based on a value of the non-linear function. A vibratory feeder provides the cullet onto a conveyer belt having an exit roller of a desired diameter.

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Menlo Park, CA, United States of America

Farook Afsari