Patents by Inventor Henry David Spells, III

Henry David Spells, III 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).

  • Extensible sprite sheet generation mechanism for declarative data formats and animation sequence formats
    Patent number: 9710950
    Abstract: A sprite sheet generation mechanism includes providing a sprite sheet generation engine host, which may be an authoring application. The host loads code that describes sprite sheet format information and a set of ordered images into the sprite sheet generation engine. The code is from code resources may be plug-ins created by a user and managed by a plug-in type manager. The sprite sheet generation engine is operated using the sprite sheet format information and the set of ordered images to generate a sprite sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Henry David Spells, III, Peter W. Moody
  • EXTENSIBLE SPRITE SHEET GENERATION MECHANISM FOR DECLARATIVE DATA FORMATS AND ANIMATION SEQUENCE FORMATS
    Publication number: 20130286025
    Abstract: A sprite sheet generation mechanism includes providing a sprite sheet generation engine host, which may be an authoring application. The host loads code that describes sprite sheet format information and a set of ordered images into the sprite sheet generation engine. The code is from code resources may be plug-ins created by a user and managed by a plug-in type manager. The sprite sheet generation engine is operated using the sprite sheet format information and the set of ordered images to generate a sprite sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Applicant: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Henry David Spells, III, Peter W. Moody