Patents Assigned to The Duck Corporation
  • System for manipulating digitized image objects in three dimensions
    Patent number: 6370267
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method and apparatus for displaying photo-realistic three-dimensionally projected views of real objects in real scenes and enabling the viewer to manipulate these objects and the scene with several degrees of freedom, such as rotation, zooming, or otherwise “handling” them as though they were physically manipulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2002
    Assignee: The Duck Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel B. Miller, Viktor Yurkovsky
  • Apparatus and method to digitally compress video signals
    Patent number: 6327304
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed for digitally compressing video signals. The method and apparatus provides a system which generates values related to the differences between respective pixel locations in an x, y pixel display. The differences generated between proximate pixel locations are used to generate various delta values which are encoded in an asymmetric fashion. The asymmetric coding eliminates artifacts in the displayed image, and the delta encoding is performed in both a horizontal and vertical direction. Errors due to the compression process are distributed randomly in both horizontal and vertical directions, approximating the effect of analog media such as video and especially film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: The Duck Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel B. Miller, Victor Yurkovsky
  • Data compression apparatus and method
    Patent number: 6181822
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed for digitally compressing video signals. The method and apparatus provides a system which generates values related to the differences between respective pixel locations and an x,y pixel display. The differences generated between proximate pixel locations are used to generate various delta values which are encoded in an asymmetric fashion. The asymmetric coding eliminates artifacts in the displayed image, and the delta encoding is performed in both a horizontal and vertical direction (otherwise known as Two-Dimensional Delta Encoding) and this operation tends to randomly distribute error in the compression process across the visual image so as to approximate noise or grain generally perceived by the viewer in an analog display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: The Duck Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel B. Miller, David B. Silver
  • System for manipulating digitized image objects in three dimensions
    Patent number: 5999641
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method and apparatus for displaying photo-realistic three-dimensionally projected views of real objects in real scenes and enabling the viewer to manipulate these objects and the scene with several degrees of freedom, such as rotation, zooming, or otherwise "handling" them as though they were physically manipulated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1999
    Assignee: The Duck Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel B. Miller, Viktor Yurkovsky
  • Round clicker
    Patent number: D301156
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 16, 1989
    Assignee: Green Duck Corporation
    Inventor: Russell H. Bullard