Thomas Joseph 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:

52035956, Apr 20, 1993

Filed:

Feb 2, 1990

Appl. No.:

7/474421

Inventors:

Rocco R. Borzone - Emerson NJ
Jay Bichet - Aberdeen NJ
Thomas F. McCarthy - Neshanic Station NJ

Assignee:

Pfizer Hospital Products Group, Inc. - New York NY

International Classification:

F16L 2500

US Classification:

285325

Abstract:

A coupling device and method of coupling especially suitable for coupling multiple components of surgical instruments are provided. A wedging portion provides an interference fit between parts so that a secure connection can be made that will not unintentionally dissociate. In a preferred embodiment, bores and counterbores within dovetail portions are provided. Especially preferred is the use of this coupling device to secure a reamer head to a shaft.

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:

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:

20140249642, Sep 4, 2014

Filed:

Mar 4, 2013

Appl. No.:

13/783894

Inventors:

- Mahwah NJ, US
Keenan Michael Hanson - Tuxedo NY, US
Thomas Francis McCarthy - Neshanic Station NJ, US
Daniel E. Lawrynowicz - Monroe NY, US
Aiguo Wang - Wayne NJ, US

Assignee:

HOWMEDICA OSTEONICS CORP. - Mahwah NJ

International Classification:

A61L 27/30
A61F 2/34

US Classification:

623 2221, 623 1811, 427 224

Abstract:

An orthopedic implant has a prosthetic joint component made, for example, of polyethylene and another component made of a titanium or titanium alloy substrate. The substrate has a first bearing surface coated with a coating made of a cobalt-chromium molybdenum alloy. The bearing surface slidably receives a second bearing surface of the prosthetic joint component. The cobalt-chromium molybdenum alloy coating forming the first bearing surface is made up of hexagonal close packed (HCP) grains having a columnar structure with a length of about 1 μm and a width of about 0.1 μm with the length of each HCP grains being oriented generally perpendicular to the titanium substrate bearing surface.

Author:

Thomas McCarthy

ISBN #:

0078617650

Author:

Thomas McCarthy

ISBN #:

0091335108

Author:

Thomas McCarthy

ISBN #:

0262082152

Author:

Thomas McCarthy

ISBN #:

0262131382

Author:

Thomas McCarthy

ISBN #:

0262581094

Author:

Thomas McCarthy

ISBN #:

0262581167

Author:

Thomas McCarthy

ISBN #:

0262630737

Author:

Thomas McCarthy

ISBN #:

0262631458