Philip Lee

6386719, May 14, 2002

Mar 14, 2001

09/808779

Philip H. Lee - Glendale CA

Enroute, Inc. - Palo Alto CA

G02B 7182

359879, 359880, 359881, 359871, 359872

A system for aligning the reflective surface of a front surface mirror with a reference surface on a base structure includes a resilient support structure and a retaining structure. The front surface mirror is mounted on the resilient support structure. A contact region of the retaining structure is placed across a portion of both the reference surface and the reflective surface and is clamped to the reference surface. Because the contact region represents a coplanar portion of the retaining structure, and because the resilient support structure holds the reflective surface against the contact region, the reflective surface is aligned with the reference surface. An eight-sided camera according to the invention includes eight mirrors, each mirror being mounted in a resilient mounting structure and being clamped down by a retaining structure having a coplanar contact region spanning a reference surface and the mirror reflective surface.

6560413, May 6, 2003

Mar 14, 2001

09/809599

Philip H. Lee - Glendale CA

Enroute, Inc. - Palo Alto CA

G03B 4100

396332, 348 36, 359879

A panoramic imaging system includes multiple cameras and mirrors. The field of view of each camera is directed radially outward from a central axis of the imaging system by one of the mirrors, the target alignment planes for the mirrors being defined by a plurality of planar reference surfaces. Each mirror is mounted in a resilient mounting structure, and is held in place by the mirror contact region of a retaining structure. Each retaining structure also includes a base contact region clamped to one of the planar reference surfaces. The base contact region and the mirror contact region of each retaining structure are coplanar, so that each reflective surface is aligned with a planar reference surface. The properly directed fields of view of the plurality of cameras can be combined to form a panoramic image. According to an embodiment of the invention, the panoramic imaging system comprises an eight-sided camera.

6786860, Sep 7, 2004

Oct 3, 2002

10/264962

Albert A. Maltan - Stevenson Ranch CA
Alfred E. Mann - Beverly Hills CA
James P. McGivern - Stevenson Ranch CA
Philip H. Lee - Santa Clarita CA

Advanced Bionics Corporation - Valencia CA

H04R 2500

600 25

A hearing aid module ( ) is shaped for insertion into a tunnel ( ) made through the soft tissue that connects the retro-auricular space ( ) with the ear canal ( ). A hollow tube ( ) may first be chronically or acutely implanted in such tunnel, and the hearing aid module inserted into the tube. The tube or hearing aid module may have a coating ( ) containing a steroid or drug adapted to minimize infection and/or inflammation. The hearing aid module contains a speaker ( ), a battery or other power source ( ) powering the module, signal processing circuitry ( ), and a microphone ( ). Telemetry circuitry ( ) within the module allows the signal processing circuitry to be programmed with a desired frequency response or signal processing strategy using an external programming unit ( ). A remote control unit ( ) permits the user to make simple adjustments, such as volume and/or tone control.

7057663, Jun 6, 2006

May 17, 2001

09/861010

Philip H. Lee - Glendale CA, US

Be Here Corporation - Fremont CA

H04N 7/12
H04N 11/02

3484231

A multi-camera capture system includes an audio synchronization marker to provide synchronization marks with the video streams captured by the multi-camera capture system. In one embodiment of the present invention, the audio synchronization marker generate a plurality of substantially similar synchronizing audio signals. Each camera of the multi-camera capture system records a synchronizing audio signal with the video stream captured by the camera. The synchronizing audio signals contain synchronization marks which are used to synchronize the video streams of the cameras.

7224815, May 29, 2007

Sep 1, 2004

10/932813

Albert A Maltan - Sistrans, AT
Alfred E Mann - Beverly Hills CA, US
James P McGivern - Stevenson Ranch CA, US
Philip H Lee - Santa Clarita CA, US

Advanced Bionics Corporation - Valencia CA

H04R 25/00

381322, 381312, 600 25

A hearing aid module is shaped for insertion into a tunnel made through the soft tissue that connects the retro-auricular space with the ear canal. The hearing aid module contains a speaker or auditory transducer, a battery or other power source powering the module, signal processing circuitry, and a microphone. Telemetry circuitry within the module allows the signal processing circuitry to be programmed with a desired frequency response or signal processing strategy using an external programming unit. A remote control unit permits the user to make simple adjustments, such as volume and/or tone (frequency) control.

7853033, Dec 14, 2010

May 22, 2007

11/752196

Albert A. Maltan - Sistrans, AU
Alfred E. Mann - Beverly Hills CA, US
James P. McGivern - Wake Forest NC, US
Philip H. Lee - Santa Clarita CA, US

Advanced Bionics, LLC - Valencia CA

H04R 25/00

381322, 381312, 381328, 600 25

A hearing aid module is shaped for insertion into a tunnel made through the soft tissue that connects the retro-auricular space with the ear canal. The hearing aid module contains a speaker or auditory transducer, a battery or other power source powering the module, signal processing circuitry, a microphone, and a hollow tube which contains a steroid or drug. Telemetry circuitry within the module allows the signal processing circuitry to be programmed with a desired frequency response or signal processing strategy using an external programming unit. A remote control unit permits the user to make simple adjustments, such as volume and/or tone (frequency) control.

8122878, Feb 28, 2012

Oct 15, 2007

11/974683

William Gross - Pasadena CA, US
Philip Lee - Glendale CA, US
Kevin Hickerson - Altadena CA, US
Dylan Owens - Cambridge MA, US
Peter Polidoro - Riner VA, US

Energy Innovations, Inc. - Poway CA

F24J 2/38

126600, 126571, 126714, 382103, 356390, 35613901

The invention in the preferred embodiment features a solar concentrator that can align and/or track based on images from a video camera, for example. The concentrator preferably includes one or more optical elements for directing light to a receiver, a camera for capturing an image of the optical elements, and a controller configured to: detect the orientation of the one or more optical elements from the one or more images, determine an orientation error based on the detected orientation, and automatically orient the one or more optical elements to minimize the orientation error. The optical elements generally comprise a plurality of mirrors or lenses arranged in a one or two dimensional array.

20060129201, Jun 15, 2006

Dec 6, 2005

11/295783

Philip Lee - Santa Clarita CA, US
Todd Whitehurst - Santa Clarita CA, US
Carla Woods - Beverly Hills CA, US

A61N 1/08

607040000

Systems for treating an obese patient include one or more sensors configured to sense one or more physical parameters of the patient and one or more implanted stimulators configured to apply a stimulus to the stomach in response to the sensed parameters. Methods of treating an obese patient include sensing one or more physical parameters of the patient and applying a stimulus to the stomach with one or more implanted stimulators in response to the sensed parameters.