DR. JOSEPH DECKER, M.D.
Medical Practice at Di Salvo Ave, San Jose, CA

5812698, Sep 22, 1998

Jul 14, 1997

8/891937

John C. Platt - Mountain View CA
Steven Nowlan - San Jose CA
Joseph Decker - San Jose CA
Nada Matic - San Jose CA

Synaptics, Inc. - San Jose CA

G06K 900

382186

A system for recognizing handwritten characters, including pre-processing apparatus for generating a set of features for each handwritten character, a neural network disposed for operating on sparse data structures of those features and generating a set of confidence values for each possible character symbol which might correspond to the handwritten character, and post-processing apparatus for adjusting those confidence values and for selecting a character symbol consistent with external knowledge about handwritten characters and the language they are written in. The pre-processing apparatus scales and re-parameterizes the handwritten strokes, encodes the scaled and re-parameterizd strokes into fuzzy membership vectors and binary pointwise data, and combines the vectors and data into a sparse data structure of features. The (nonconvolutional) neural network performs a matrix-vector multiply on the sparse data structure, using only the data for nonzero features collected in that structure, and, for a first layer of that neural network, using only successive chunks of the neural weights. The post-processing apparatus adjusts the confidence values for character symbols using a set of expert rules embodying common-sense knowledge, from which it generates a set of character probabilities for each character position; these character probabilities are combined with a Markov model of character sequence transitions and a dictionary of known words, to produce a final work output for a sequence of handwritten characters.

6430305, Aug 6, 2002

Dec 20, 1996

08/771707

Joseph E. Decker - San Jose CA

Synaptics, Incorporated - San Jose CA

G06K 900

382116, 382124, 382156, 382228, 705 44, 340 541, 340 553, 340 583, 902 5

Apparatus for fraud detection for an account includes a plurality of N statistical estimators which estimate the likelihood of a transaction being fraudulent from data about a transaction on the account and transaction history of the account. A statistical estimator is provided which computes an estimate of the likelihood of a particular signature being that of a person authorized to sign on the account from an exemplar of the signature and a history of previous signatures. A combiner produces a combined probability estimate from the plurality of N statistical estimators and the statistical estimator.

5321609, Jun 14, 1994

May 27, 1992

7/889180

Peter N. Yianilos - Princeton NJ
Joseph E. Decker - San Jose CA
Rafael Mayer - Philadelphia PA

Franklin Electronic Publishers, Incorporated - Mt. Holly NJ

G06F 1538

36441913

A location technique in an electronic encyclopedia for presenting relevant articles in response to a user input of a query term. The technique employs a user controlled hierarchy of filter parameters. The user selects a subset of the identifying parameters into which all articles are classified; each article being classified into at least one identifying parameter. There are 107 parameters disclosed. The encyclopedia automatically locates each article that employs the input or query term in each of the parameters selected by the user. The 107 identifying parameters are divided into four Groups. The articles presented to the user are only those articles which are common to each of tex up to four Groups into which the user selected parameters are divided. An optimally useful set of articles is provided to the user. By a combination of the union of the articles within the user selected parameters within each of the Groups together with the intersection of the articles between Groups.

5229936, Jul 20, 1993

Jan 4, 1991

7/638067

Joseph E. Decker - San Jose CA
Edward Oswalt - Sunnyvale CA
David Justice - Princeton NJ

Franklin Electronic Publishers, Incorporated - Mt. Holly NJ

G06F 1520

364419

A method and apparatus stores and retrieves inflected forms of words in electronic reference products and, in particular, in electronic dictionaries, electronic bilingual dictionaries, electronic thesauri and an electronic Bible. The method is for providing inflection information related to a given word in an electronic reference device having a memory portion comprises the steps of providing information representing all of the forms of a word whose inflections are to be considered, forming information representing as stem of the word consisting of the longest prefix that is the same in all of the forms of the word, forming information representing a list of all of the allowed endings, designated as ending sets, of the forms of the word, assigning a unique number to each ending set, storing information representing the stem portion of the word in a memory arranged in a predetermined manner, and storing information representing a sequence of characters in a memory portion corresponding to each ending set number followed by a termination character. The sequence includes characters used to specify the part of speech and grammatical information.

7944953, May 17, 2011

Apr 2, 2003

10/407090

Brian Bulkowski - Berkeley CA, US
Carolyn Wales - Menlo Park CA, US
Sam Hsu - Fremont CA, US
James Helman - San Carlos CA, US
Joseph Decker - San Jose CA, US
Brock Wagenaar - Cambridge MA, US
Mark Vickers - Belmont CA, US

TVWORKS, LLC - Philadelphia PA

H04J 3/22, H04J 3/02, H04J 3/06, H04J 3/04, H04N 7/173, H04N 5/935, H04N 5/92, H04N 9/80, H04N 5/78, H04N 5/783

370543, 370542, 370503, 370535, 725 88, 725102, 725103, 386205, 386245, 386248, 386324, 386343, 386345

The invention provides a method and apparatus that addresses and resolves the issues currently affecting the ability to offer Enhanced TV, in particular, those issues concerning timing and synchronization, interaction with other modules in the STB, and distribution.

2013031, Nov 21, 2013

Mar 27, 2013

13/851493

Brian Bulkowski - Berkeley CA, US
Carolyn Wales - Menlo Park CA, US
Sam Hsu - Fremont CA, US
James Helman - San Carlos CA, US
Joseph Decker - San Jose CA, US
Brock Wagenaar - Cambridge MA, US
Mark Vickers - Belmont CA, US

TVWORKS, LLC - Philadelphia PA

H04N 21/81, H04N 21/235, H04N 21/462, H04N 7/173

725 25

The invention provides a method and apparatus that addresses and resolves the issues currently affecting the ability to offer Enhanced TV, in particular, those issues concerning timing and synchronization, interaction with other modules in the STB, and distribution.

2013031, Nov 21, 2013

Mar 28, 2013

13/852355

Brian Bulkowski - Berkeley CA, US
Carolyn Wales - Menlo Park CA, US
Sam Hsu - Fremont CA, US
James Helman - San Carlos CA, US
Joseph Decker - San Jose CA, US
Brock Wagenaar - Cambridge MA, US
Mark Vickers - Belmont CA, US

TVWORKS, LLC - Philadelphia PA

H04N 21/236

725 97, 725116

The invention provides a method and apparatus that addresses and resolves the issues currently affecting the ability to offer Enhanced TV, in particular, those issues concerning timing and synchronization, interaction with other modules in the STB, and distribution.

8434101, Apr 30, 2013

Mar 29, 2011

13/074531

Brian Bulkowski - Berkeley CA, US
Carolyn Wales - Menlo Park CA, US
Sam Hsu - Fremont CA, US
James Helman - San Carlos CA, US
Joseph Decker - San Jose CA, US
Brock Wagenaar - Cambridge MA, US
Mark Vickers - Belmont CA, US

TVWorks, LLC - Philadelphia PA

H04N 7/16, G06F 7/04, G06F 9/45, G06F 3/00, H04L 29/06

725 25, 726 27, 713166

The invention provides a method and apparatus that addresses and resolves the issues currently affecting the ability to offer Enhanced TV, in particular, those issues concerning timing and synchronization, interaction with other modules in the STB, and distribution.

8437373, May 7, 2013

Mar 29, 2011

13/074535

Brian Bulkowski - Berkeley CA, US
Carolyn Wales - Menlo Park CA, US
Sam Hsu - Fremont CA, US
James Helman - San Carlos CA, US
Joseph Decker - San Jose CA, US
Brock Wagenaar - Cambridge MA, US
Mark Vickers - Belmont CA, US

TVWorks, LLC - Philadelphia PA

H04J 3/02, H04J 3/06, H04N 7/173, H04N 5/78, H04N 5/92

370537, 370503, 725 87, 725 91, 725 93, 725103, 386324, 386337

The invention provides a method and apparatus that addresses and resolves the issues currently affecting the ability to offer Enhanced TV, in particular, those issues concerning timing and synchronization, interaction with other modules in the STB, and distribution.