Patents by Inventor Justin T. Dick

Justin T. Dick 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).

  • Patent number: 9495415
    Abstract: A system and method for searching for content in a user device includes a receiver receiving a plurality of data objects. The user device includes a search module comprising a parsing module parsing search data from the plurality of data objects and a memory interface module storing search data within a memory of the user device. The search module comprises a search performance module searching the search data in response to a search query. The search module comprises a search results module generating search results from the search data. The user device is associated with a display that displays the search results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: The DIRECTV Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert G. Arsenault, Eric J. Bennett, Eric H. Chang, Gordon H. Chen, Kenny C. Chen, Justin T. Dick, Flemming R. Hansen, Yoonjung Kim, Peter Leong, Andrew J. Schneider, Jeffrey L. Sharkey, Marcin Spatzier, Huy Q. Tran, Melissa H. Tullues, Leo Wu
  • Patent number: 9338498
    Abstract: A prerendered line texture stored in memory is used to generate an anti-aliased destination line in any direction to be displayed on a screen. A combination of tiling, stretching, and/or mirroring is used to generate the anti-aliased destination line. A blitter blits a rectangle in the prerendered line texture to a destination rectangle in the frame buffer that is displayed on the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2016
    Assignee: The DIRECTV Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Leyland Needham, Andrew J. Schneider, Justin T. Dick, Huy Q. Tran
  • Publication number: 20150334444
    Abstract: A prerendered line texture stored in memory is used to generate an anti-aliased destination line in any direction to be displayed on a screen. A combination of tiling, stretching, and/or mirroring is used to generate the anti-aliased destination line. A blitter blits a rectangle in the prerendered line texture to a destination rectangle in the frame buffer that is displayed on the screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Applicant: THE DIRECTV Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Leyland Needham, Andrew J. Schneider, Justin T. Dick, Huy Q. Tran
  • Patent number: 9098938
    Abstract: A prerendered line texture stored in memory is used to generate an anti-aliased destination line in any direction to be displayed on a screen. A combination of tiling, stretching, and/or mirroring is used to generate the anti-aliased destination line. A blitter blits a rectangle in the prerendered line texture to a destination rectangle in the frame buffer that is displayed on the screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: The DIRECTV Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Leyland Needham, Andrew J. Schneider, Justin T. Dick, Huy Q. Tran
  • Publication number: 20130120657
    Abstract: Text is rendered to a television screen using only the alpha channel. This is accomplished by delaying blending with underlying video until the end of the process to thereby preserve the alpha channel information. Glyphs are used to graphically represent character data in the text to be rendered. Glyphs can be stored in a character texture. In addition, the glyphs can be contained in rectangles having identifiable locations in the character texture. The rectangles can have sizes dependent upon the glyph the rectangle contains.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: The DIRECTV Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Justin T. Dick, Andrew J. Schneider, Huy Q. Tran
  • Publication number: 20130120423
    Abstract: A prerendered line texture stored in memory is used to generate an anti-aliased destination line in any direction to be displayed on a screen. A combination of tiling, stretching, and/or mirroring is used to generate the anti-aliased destination line. A blitter blits a rectangle in the prerendered line texture to a destination rectangle in the frame buffer that is displayed on the screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2011
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: The DIRECTV Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Leyland Needham, Andrew J. Schneider, Justin T. Dick, Huy Q. Tran
  • Publication number: 20120054211
    Abstract: A system and method for searching for content in a user device includes a receiver receiving a plurality of data objects. The user device includes a search module comprising a parsing module parsing search data from the plurality of data objects and a memory interface module storing search data within a memory of the user device. The search module comprises a search performance module searching the search data in response to a search query. The search module comprises a search results module generating search results from the search data. The user device is associated with a display that displays the search results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: The DIRECTV Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert G. Arsenault, Eric J. Bennett, Eric H. Chang, Gordon H. Chen, Kenny C. Chen, Justin T. Dick, Flemming R. Hansen, Yoonjung Kim, Peter Leong, Andrew J. Schneider, Jeffrey L. Sharkey, Marcin Spatzier, Huy Q. Tran, Melissa H. Tullues, Leo Wu