Japan Vacation 2024

Allie and I travelled around Japan from Sept 15 to Oct 1.  We visited Daniel K. Inouye International Airport (including Mauka Market) on a layover in Honolulu while heading to Japan.

Fukuoka

Fukuoka Airport, Fukuoka, Hilton Fukuoka Sea Hawk, Nanzoin, Solaria Plaza, Yoshinoya, Gyushin, Hakata Seafood Restaurant Uokichi, Mitsukoshi, Fukuoka Tower, Shin Shin, Hakata Kawabata Dosanko, Grand Hyatt Fukuoka, Canal City, Kits, SoftBank Hawks game at Mizuho PayPay Dome, Hakata Station, Kokura Station, Amu Plaza, Bookstore at Amu Plaza and Hankyu Ferry from Kitakyushu to Osaka.

Osaka and Kyoto

Aloft Osaka Dojima, McDonalds, Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan, Craft Burger Co, Osaka Castle, Pablo, Sanrio Gift Gate, tutu anna, Canon Plaza Osaka, Kame Sushi, Naruto Taiyaki Honpo, The Warehouse, JP Tower Osaka, Kitte Osaka, Sugi Bee Garden, Osaka Station City, Hanshin Dept Store, Ichiroku Saryo, Kiddy Land, Snoopy Town Stop, Hankyu Dept Store, Shin-Osaka Station, Kyoto, Kyoto Station, Shichimiya, Niomon Gate, Kiyomizu-dera Temple, Asahido, 株式会社 山本商店 龍栄堂, snoopy chocolat, Soba Shiki and Osaka Station, Kintetsu Railway ~ Hinotori ~ Osaka-Namba to Kintetsu-Nagoya.

Nagoya

Courtyard by Marriott Nagoya, Nagoya, Oasis21, Donguri Kyowakoku, Beep! Aichi, Harry Potter Magical Spot, Nigiri No Tokube, Baskin Robbins, Naka Ward, Buruburu Aiai Bookstore, Nishinomaru Okura Museum, Nagoya Castle, Hommaru Palace, miffy style, Delica Kitchen, Rope Picnic, Cascade at Esca, Meitetsu Dept Store, Nagoya Station and Mermaid Cafe.

Tokyo

Shinagawa Station, Tokyo, Ginza, AC Hotel Ginza, Ginza Six, Tsutaya Bookstore, Uniqlo Flagship, Imperial Viking Sal, Tokyo Skytree, Koconoha, Chums, Neue, Donguri Republic, Plaza, SoraTora-ya, Ginza Itoya, Ueno Station, Ueno Park, Ueno Zoo, 3coins Ooops!, Kyukyodo, Shibuya Stream, Kaldi Coffee Farm, Kobe Teppanyaki Hakushu, Tsutaya Bookstore Shibuya Sakura Stage, AC Bar, Ginza Karen, Denny's, Bic Camera, Akihabara Radio Kaikan, K-Books, Hub, Shinjuku Station, Kizuna Sushi, NewoMan, Lumine Est, Giant 3D Cat, Godzilla Street, Krispy Creme, Ginza Food Garden, Kabukiza Theater, Tokyo International Airport (Haneda), Hyakuzen, Saryo Itoen, Observation Deck and Sky Lounge.

Yokohama

Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse, NeNe Chicken, Lamplit, B-Side Label, Yokohama World Porters and Yokohama Air Cabin. 

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Japan Vacation Photos Part 1

Japan Vacation Photos Part 2

Eki Stamps from Japan Vacation 2024

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Vancouver, BC with Joie

Alice, Joie & I visited Civic Hotel, Surrey, BC, Vancouver, BC Ancora Waterfront Dining and Patio, Dominion Bar + Kitchen, Vancouver Chinatown, Crystal Mall in Burnaby, Tae Tea at Crystal Mall, Granville Island, Granville Island Public Market, Circle Craft Gallery, Nooroongji Books, Paper Ya on Granville Island, Parade Shop, Make at Granville Island, Ukama Gallery, Granville Island Pet Treatery, Ten Granville Island, West Vancouver Lighthouse Park. This trip was a bit difference since we did have our little dog with us. This means some places couldn't be visited while other places that we'd typically overlook came to the top of our list. (Facebook, backup)

3DEXPERIENCE World 2024

February 10 - 15 2024, we had another great year with awesome people, such as Heather Hasz, Michael Lord, Chin-loo Lama, Yoshihiro Dobashi, Joe Lance, Justin Kidder, Kristen Wilson Syrek, Santiago Laverde, Brenda Monahan, Salih Majid Al Ani, Michel Cloutier, Utpal Kumar, Lennart Tinndahl, Maria, David Ferreira, Kevin Berni, Rick Encello, Mark Biasotti, Suchit Jain, Casey Gorman, Allan Azcuna, Mhal Louh, Eric Beatty, Jonny Harrison, Kim Richardson, Denny Bahl, Madhav Joshi, Erin Kimbrell, Jason Pohl, Sarah Downey, Jessie Long, Matt Long, Avelino Rochino, Frank Ruepp, Sal Lama, Dan Ferrucci-Herzberg, Steve Calvert, Kirby Downey, Tara Hodgetts, Ditmars Veinbachs, Dan Riffell, John Matrishon, Josh Mayes, Robert Jost, Brad Williamson, Karen Daley, Mark Martel, Luke Daley, Matthieu Fourcade, Mike Buchli, Mike Sabocheck, Rachael Naoum, Brad Meador, Saurav Saha, Pruthvi Venketesh, Betty Baker, Shigeo Kimura, Shravan Jodalli, Jeff Niederman, and many others visited Omni Dallas Hotel, The Owners Box, Gilley's, Frankie's Downtown, Derby Restaurant, The Backyard, Deep Ellum, Elm Street Cask & Kitchen, Cafe Herrera on Lamar and Morsel's. (FB post/backup link)

Houston Family Trip

 

January 18 - 21, 2024, we travelled to Houston, TX to visit family with Alice and others. We visited Houston Marriott Medical Center, Rice Village, Sixty Vines, Dun Huang Plaza, Sterling Plaza, Sterling Square and Confucius Seafood. (FB post/backup link)

San Diego Adventure

 

December 11 - 20, 2023 with Alice enjoying a fun trip to San Diego and other SoCal destinations. 

Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott Santa Maria, Solvang, California, Courtyard by Marriott San Diego Airport/Liberty Station, San Diego Zoo, Parfait Paris, Liberty Public Market, Liberty Station, Balboa Park, Japanese Friendship Garden, Old Cactus Garden - Balboa Park, Cesarina, San Diego Zoo Safari Park, Old Town San Diego, Old Town Market San Diego, La Jolla, La Jolla Cove, Warwick's of La Jolla, George's at the Cove, Cork Fire Kitchen, Beverly Hills, California, La ong Beverly Hills, Four Points by Sheraton Los Angeles Westside, TCL Chinese Theatres, Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, Hollywood Walk of Fame- Los Angeles, California, In N Out, Marina Del Rey and Casa de Reyes Restaurant. (Original post, backup link)

Photos and description of our journey.

New Patent issued

  

Linking views/states of 3d models and propagating updates in same

Japan Patent 7357715

Issued: Sept 28, 2023

Inventors: Felipe Martínez Quiroz and Matthew Lorono

Linking of 3D views within a 3D model, such as saved views and presentation states, into parent and child relationship. Automatically propagate changes to child views and their associated annotations when the orientation and other aspects of the parent view are changed, where the child views change to remain at the same relative orientation to the parent view, and where the annotations of a child view are modified so that their orientations are aligned with changes to the orientation of the associated child view.

[Normally, the US patent is first to be issued (ahead of international patents). However, in this case, the Japanese Patent Office worked faster than the USPTO; so it's the issuance of Japanese Patent that marks this achievement. I like the Japanese patent certificate.]

Patent link

3DEXPERIENCE World 2023 - In-person and Virtual

February 11 - 18, 2023, we had a great return after the long night in Nashville, TN, with Heather Hasz, Michael Lord, Chin-loo Lama, Kendra Wardlow, Yoshihiro Dobashi, Joe Lance, Justin Kidder, Kristen Wilson Syrek, Santiago Laverde, Brenda Monahan, Salih Majid Al Ani, Michel Cloutier, Ian Hogg, Utpal Kumar, Avelino Rochino, Frank Ruepp, Alice Caspari, Sal Lama, Dan Ferrucci-Herzberg, Mark Burhop, Steve Calvert, Ryo Tanaka, Ian Pilkington, Barb Schmitz, Erin Kimbrell, Kirby Downey, Tara Hodgetts, Ditmars Veinbachs, Dan Riffell, John Matrishon, Josh Mayes, Robert Jost, Brad Williamson, Karen Daley, Mark Martel, Luke Daley, Matthieu Fourcade, Mike Buchli, Mike Sabocheck, Rachael Naoum, Brad Meador, Saurav Saha, Mark Rushton, Pruthvi Venketesh, Ian Baxter, Betty Baker, Shigeo Kimura, Shravan Jodalli, Jeff Niederman, Brian Zias and many others.  Places visited include L27, Nashville Music City Center, Pins Mechanical Co., Downtown Nashville, Bakersfield and Pancake Pantry.  (Original post/backup link)

Toby has passed

With Alice and Joie. Toby loved playing fetch on the stairs, barking at critters on TV, running on grass, long walks and hikes in new places, smelling the flowers (literally), lounging on our laps, and so much more. You are and will always be missed. (Original post/backup link)

New Patent issued

WYSIWYG editor for creating and editing a feature control frame for geometric dimensioning and tolerancing in computer-aided design system

US Patent number: 11,556,234

Issued: Jan 17, 2023

Inventors: Abhijeet Narvenkar and Matthew Lorono

Here's a newly issued patent by Abhijeet Narvenkar and myself for the WYSIWYG GTOL editor now found in SOLIDWORKS that allows for the intuitive and quick creation of geometric tolerance (GD&T/GPS) feature control frames based on a series of connected user choices.

Patent link

3DEXPERIENCE World 2022 (Virtual Event)

  

From February 6 to February 9, we experienced a second virtual 3DEXPERIENCE World but for 2022 with Heather Hasz, Steve Calvert, Casey Gorman, Daniel Ferrucci-Herzberg, Jeff Mirisola, Joe N Lance, Kirby Downey, Betty Baker, Jonny Harrison, Dan Riffell, Todd Blacksher, Maria Sarkar, Kristen Wilson Syrek, Robert Jost, Brad Hakeman, Rachael Naoum, Kim Richardson, Chinloo Lama, Salih Majid Al Ani, Josh Mayes, Brandon Fuzz Walters, Mike Buchli, Brian Zias, Stephen Endersby, Mark Martel, Suchit Jain, Mark Rushton, Tom Smith, Ed Gebo, Deepak Gupta, Eric Beatty, Pruthvi Venkatesh, Brad Williamson, Brad Thompson and The CORE Podcast. (Facebook, backup)

Patents issued, so far

A while a go, I realized that there's events which I've added to Facebook but not my own blog.  Anyway, I'm going to add some of that now.  Here's a list of my issues patents so far. (Not included are international patents for the same inventions.)

Generation Of Section Views Cutting Lines With Automatic Constraints

United States 9,465,894

Issued October 11, 2016

Intuitive method to create section views on CAD drawings utilizing inferences and indicators at various locations to automatically generate and constrain the section view cutting plane.

Patent link

 

Creating a broken representation of a computer-aided design model

US Patent number: 9,870,436

Issued: Jan 16, 2018

Inventors: Matthew Lorono, Robert Siegel, Sachin Darwatkar, Rupesh Kumar

A computer-implemented method and system create computer-generated three-dimensional (3D) models in a broken state (broken view representation). To create a 3D model in a broken state, an area of the 3D model in an unbroken state is removed to create the 3D model in the broken state and a mapping between the 3D model in the unbroken state and the 3D model in a broken state is implemented to enable operations performed on the 3D model in the broken state to utilize data defining the 3D model in the unbroken state. The mapping maintains a relationship between data defining the 3D model in the unbroken state and data defining the 3D model in the broken state.

Patent link

Annotating Real-World Objects

US Patent number: 10,013,506

Issued: July 3, 2018

Inventors: Blake Reeves, Eric Hasan, Matthew Lorono

New patent has been issued for Blake Reeves (first-named inventor), Eric Hasan and myself. The basic concept is the ability within augmented reality environment to interact with a real-world object by using its 3D model counterpart. This allows the user to add annotations on-screen that appear attached to the real world object, but are based on the 3D model counterpart.

Patent link

 

Automatic Generation Of Dimension And Tolerance Information For Fastened Components

US Patent number: 11,163,916

Issued: Nov 2, 2021

Inventors: Todd Jarvinen, Clay Tornquist, Matthew Lorono

Given a source component with dimensions and tolerances, the dimensions and tolerances are automatically applied to mating entities of a target component such that fit is insured without interference when the both components are manufactured at worst case, or at the extremes of their tolerance zones.

Patent link

My first two design patents have been recently issued for ornamental design of the user interface for feature control frame fields within a computer-generated tool used to create and edit computer-generated representations of GD&T/GPS symbols.

US Design Patent number 1: D941,861 / Patent link

US Design Patent number 2: D943,619 / Patent link

3DEXPERIENCE World 2021 (Virtual Event)

February 6 to February 11 with Kendra Wardlow, Todd Blacksher, Kristen Wilson Syrek, Christopher Saller, Chinloo Lama, Alice Caspari, Daniel Ferrucci-Herzberg, Casey Gorman, Ed Gebo, Rachel Diane York, Eric Beatty, Mark Johnson, Kirby Downey, Dan Riffell, Robert Jost, Jonny Harrison, Karen Daley, Luke Daley, Mike Buchli, Cami Florence-Fredock, Rachael Naoum, Betty Baker, Jim Holtz, Will Gill, Matt Schmotzer, Mike Puckett and many others.

Due to the 2020 pandemic, 3DEXPERIENCE World 2021 was a Virtual Event. Fortunately, it garnered virtual attendance of over 35,000!

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