Patents by Inventor Dean Scribner
Dean Scribner has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 10689284Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for making infrared transmitting graded index optical elements by selecting at least two different infrared-transmitting materials, each with a different refractive index, having similar thermo-viscous behavior; assembling the infrared-transmitting materials into a stack comprising one or more layers of each infrared-transmitting material resulting in the stack having a graded index profile; and forming the stack into a desired shape. Also disclosed is the related optical element made by this method.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2012Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVYInventors: Daniel J. Gibson, Jasbinder S. Sanghera, Guillermo R. Villalobos, Ishwar D. Aggarwal, Dean A Scribner
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Patent number: 8462179Abstract: A method and system is provided for performing high-resolution image assembly regardless of observed scene content. An imaging system, including a focal plane array and lenslet array can be calibrated to account for subimage shifts. A calibration module can determine the subimage shifts by calculating an average point source position reference point coordinates for each of the subimages, and then determining the difference between the average point source position and the reference point coordinates for each subimage. The imaging system can then be calibrated utilizing the subimage shifts for each of the plurality of subimages. Finally, an assembly module can perform a high-resolution image assembly with the calibrated imaging system.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2009Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Erin F. Fleet, Andrey V. Kanaev, Dean A Scribner, John R. Ackerman
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Publication number: 20120206796Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for making infrared transmitting graded index optical elements by selecting at least two different infrared-transmitting materials, each with a different refractive index, having similar thermo-viscous behavior; assembling the infrared-transmitting materials into a stack comprising one or more layers of each infrared-transmitting material resulting in the stack having a graded index profile; and forming the stack into a desired shape. Also disclosed is the related optical element made by this method.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2012Publication date: August 16, 2012Inventors: Daniel J. Gibson, Jasbinder S. Sanghera, Guillermo R. Villalobos, Ishwar D. Aggarwal, Dean A. Scribner
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Publication number: 20100013857Abstract: A method and system is provided for performing high-resolution image assembly regardless of observed scene content. An imaging system, including a focal plane array and lenslet array can be calibrated to account for subimage shifts. A calibration module can determine the subimage shifts by calculating an average point source position reference point coordinates for each of the subimages, and then determining the difference between the average point source position and the reference point coordinates for each subimage. The imaging system can then be calibrated utilizing the subimage shifts for each of the plurality of subimages. Finally, an assembly module can perform a high-resolution image assembly with the calibrated imaging system.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2009Publication date: January 21, 2010Inventors: Erin F. Fleet, Andrey V. Kanaev, Dean A. Scribner, John R. Ackerman
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Patent number: 7521224Abstract: The electroporation array is comprised of three technologies: microwire glass electrodes, microelectronic multiplexer stimulator chips and microfluidic flow chamber. Various substances, such as genes, gene silencing RNAi, gene inhibition agents or drugs, can be perfused into the microfluidic flow chamber. The entry of the various substances into the cells will be facilitated by electroporation. An applied electric potential causes nanoscale pores to open in the cell membrane allowing substances in the solution to freely diffuse into the cell. The specific cells selected for electroporation are defined using the computer controlled microelectronic stimulator array. An “image” of which electrodes within the array to apply the electric potential to, and thus electroporate, is de-multiplexed onto the array. All the selected electrodes deliver a current pulse varied by the intensity of the de-multiplexed “image”.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2003Date of Patent: April 21, 2009Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Lee Johnson, Dean Scribner, Joseph Pancrazio
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Patent number: 7248751Abstract: A system for enhancing images from an electro-optic imaging sensor and for reducing the necessary focal length of a sensor while preserving system acuity. This system uniquely reduces the necessary focal length and enhances images by collecting a video sequence, estimating motion associate with this sequence, assembling video frames into composite images, and applying image restoration to restore the composite image from pixel, lens blur, and alias distortion. The invention synthetically increases the pixel density of the focal plane array. Thus it reduces the necessary size of the projected blur circle or equivalently it reduces the minimum focal length requirements.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2004Date of Patent: July 24, 2007Assignee: United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Jonathon M Schuler, Dean A Scribner, J Grant Howard
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Patent number: 6970745Abstract: The retinal prosthesis test device is comprised of a thin wafer of glass made from nanochannel glass (NGC) with very small channels perpendicular to the plane of the wafer filled with an electrical conductor forming microwires. One surface of the glass is ground to a spherical shape consistent with the radius of curvature of the inside of the retina. The NGC is hybridized to a silicon de-multiplexer and a video image is serially input to a narrow, flexible micro-cable and read into a 2-D array of unit cells in a pixel-by-pixel manner which samples the analog video input and stores the value as a charge on a MOS capacitor. After all unit cells have been loaded with the pixel values for the current frame, a biphasic pulse is sent to each unit cell which modulates the pulse in proportion to the pixel value stored therein.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2002Date of Patent: November 29, 2005Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventor: Dean Scribner
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Publication number: 20050201637Abstract: A system for enhancing images from an electro-optic imaging sensor and for reducing the necessary focal length of a sensor while preserving system acuity. This system uniquely reduces the necessary focal length and enhances images by collecting a video sequence, estimating motion associate with this sequence, assembling video frames into composite images, and applying image restoration to restore the composite image from pixel, lens blur, and alias distortion. The invention synthetically increases the pixel density of the focal plane array. Thus it reduces the necessary size of the projected blur circle or equivalently it reduces the minimum focal length requirements.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2004Publication date: September 15, 2005Inventors: Jonathan Schuler, Dean Scribner, J. Howard
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Publication number: 20050070018Abstract: The electroporation array is comprised of three technologies: microwire glass electrodes, microelectronic multiplexer stimulator chips and microfluidic flow chamber. Various substances, such as genes, gene silencing RNAi, gene inhibition agents or drugs, can be perfused into the microfluidic flow chamber. The entry of the various substances into the cells will be facilitated by electroporation. An applied electric potential causes nanoscale pores to open in the cell membrane allowing substances in the solution to freely diffuse into the cell. The specific cells selected for electroporation are defined using the computer controlled microelectronic stimulator array. An “image” of which electrodes within the array to apply the electric potential to, and thus electroporate, is de-multiplexed onto the array. All the selected electrodes deliver a current pulse varied by the intensity of the de-multiplexed “image”.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2003Publication date: March 31, 2005Inventors: Lee Johnson, Dean Scribner, Joseph Pancrazio
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Publication number: 20040172100Abstract: The retinal prosthesis test device is comprised of a thin wafer of glass made from nanochannel glass (NGC) with very small channels perpendicular to the plane of the wafer filled with an electrical conductor forming microwires. One surface of the glass is ground to a spherical shape consistent with the radius of curvature of the inside of the retina. The NGC is hybridized to a silicon de-multiplexer and a video image is serially input to a narrow, flexible micro-cable and read into a 2-D array of unit cells in a pixel-by-pixel manner which samples the analog video input and stores the value as a charge on a MOS capacitor. After all unit cells have been loaded with the pixel values for the current frame, a biphasic pulse is sent to each unit cell which modulates the pulse in proportion to the pixel value stored therein.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2003Publication date: September 2, 2004Inventors: Mark S. Humayun, James D. Weiland, Dean Scribner
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Publication number: 20040106966Abstract: The retinal prosthesis test device is comprised of a thin wafer of glass made from nanochannel glass (NGC) with very small channels perpendicular to the plane of the wafer filled with an electrical conductor forming microwires. One surface of the glass is ground to a spherical shape consistent with the radius of curvature of the inside of the retina. The NGC is hybridized to a silicon de-multiplexer and a video image is serially input to a narrow, flexible micro-cable and read into a 2-D array of unit cells in a pixel-by-pixel manner which samples the analog video input and stores the value as a charge on a MOS capacitor. After all unit cells have been loaded with the pixel values for the current frame, a biphasic pulse is sent to each unit cell which modulates the pulse in proportion to the pixel value stored therein.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2003Publication date: June 3, 2004Inventors: Dean Scribner, Mark Humayun, James Weiland
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Patent number: 6647297Abstract: The retinal prosthesis test device is comprised of a thin wafer of glass made from nanochannel glass (NGC) with very small channels perpendicular to the plane of the wafer filled with an electrical conductor forming microwires. One surface of the glass is ground to a spherical shape consistent with the radius of curvature of the inside of the retina. The NGC is hybridized to a silicon de-multiplexer and a video image is serially input to a narrow, flexible micro-cable and read into a 2-D array of unit cells in a pixel-by-pixel manner which samples the analog video input and stores the value as a charge on a MOS capacitor. After all unit cells have been loaded with the pixel values for the current frame, a biphasic pulse is sent to each unit cell which modulates the pulse in proportion to the pixel value stored therein.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2002Date of Patent: November 11, 2003Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventor: Dean Scribner
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Publication number: 20020161417Abstract: The retinal prosthesis test device is comprised of a thin wafer of glass made from nanochannel glass (NGC) with very small channels perpendicular to the plane of the wafer filled with an electrical conductor forming microwires. One surface of the glass is ground to a spherical shape consistent with the radius of curvature of the inside of the retina. The NGC is hybridized to a silicon de-multiplexer and a video image is serially input to a narrow , flexible micro-cable and read into a 2-D array of unit cells in a pixel-by-pixel manner which samples the analog video input and stores the value as a charge on a MOS capacitor. After all unit cells have been loaded with the pixel values for the current frame, a biphasic pulse is sent to each unit cell which modulates the pulse in proportion to the pixel value stored therein.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2002Publication date: October 31, 2002Inventor: Dean Scribner
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Publication number: 20020111655Abstract: The retinal prosthesis test device is comprised of a thin wafer of glass made from nanochannel glass (NGC) with very small channels perpendicular to the plane of the wafer filled with an electrical conductor forming microwires. One surface of the glass is ground to a spherical shape consistent with the radius of curvature of the inside of the retina. The NGC is hybridized to a silicon de-multiplexer and a video image is serially input to a narrow, flexible micro-cable and read into a 2-D array of unit cells in a pixel-by-pixel manner which samples the analog video input and stores the value as a charge on a MOS capacitor. After all unit cells have been loaded with the pixel values for the current frame, a biphasic pulse is sent to each unit cell which modulates the pulse in proportion to the pixel value stored therein.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2002Publication date: August 15, 2002Inventor: Dean Scribner
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Patent number: 6393327Abstract: The retinal prosthesis test device is comprised of a thin wafer of glass made from nanochannel glass (NGC) with very small channels perpendicular to the plane of the wafer filled with an electrical conductor forming microwires. One surface of the glass is ground to a spherical shape consistent with the radius of curvature of the inside of the retina. The NGC is hybridized to a silicon de-multiplexer and a video image is serially input to a narrow, flexible micro-cable and read into a 2-D array of unit cells in a pixel-by-pixel manner which samples the analog video input and stores the value as a charge on a MOS capacitor. After all unit cells have been loaded with the pixel values for the current frame, a biphasic pulse is sent to each unit cell which modulates the pulse in proportion to the pixel value stored therein.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2000Date of Patent: May 21, 2002Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventor: Dean Scribner
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Publication number: 20020015536Abstract: An apparatus for processing imaging data in a plurality of spectral bands and fusing the data into a color image includes one or more imaging sensors and at least two image-acquiring sensor areas located on the imaging sensors. Each sensor area is sensitive to a different spectral band than at least one of the other sensor area or areas, and each sensor area will generate an image output representative of an acquired image in the spectral band to which it is sensitive. The apparatus further includes a software program that runs on a computer and executes a registration algorithm for registering the image outputs pixel-to-pixel, an algorithm to scale the images into a 24-bit true color image for display, and a color fusion algorithm for combining the image outputs into a single image.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2001Publication date: February 7, 2002Inventors: Penny G. Warren, Jonathon M. Schuler, Dean Scribner, Richard B. Klein, John G. Howard, Michael P. Satyshur, Melvin R. Kruer