Patents by Inventor Mark L. Atherton

Mark L. Atherton 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).

  • Dynamic loader
    Patent number: 5608805
    Abstract: An apparatus and method receive and process information, and adapt the operational characteristics of the processing in response to material included in the received information. More particularly, the apparatus and method embody a software-controlled process which adapts or modifies the software in response to the received information. One embodiment is described in connection with a motion picture film which carries a conventional analog SVA soundtrack and a digital soundtrack with a digital representation of software required to properly process the digital soundtrack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 4, 1997
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas E. Mandell, Martin J. Richards, Mark L. Atherton, Paul R. Goldberg, Mark F. Davis
  • Storage medium and apparatus and method for recovering information from such medium by oversampling
    Patent number: 5544140
    Abstract: The invention relates generally to a storage medium carrying symbols representing digital information, the recovery from a storage medium of symbols representing digital information and the determination of the digital information represented by such symbols. More particularly, the invention relates to storage media carrying the symbols in two dimensions and to the recovery of such symbols by oversampling in two dimensions. While the invention has many applications, the invention is described in connection with preferred embodiments in which the symbols are carried by and recovered from an optical-storage medium, namely, motion picture film, the symbols representing digital information into which motion picture soundtrack and related information is encoded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1996
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Charles G. Seagrave, Martin J. Richards, Douglas E. Mandell, Mark L. Atherton
  • Dynamic loader
    Patent number: 5390256
    Abstract: The invention relates generally to an apparatus and a method for receiving and processing information, and for adapting the operational characteristics of the processing in response to material included in the received information. More particularly, the invention relates to an apparatus and a method embodying a software-controlled process which adapts or modifies the software in response to the received information. Although the invention has many applications, the invention is more particularly described in connection with a motion picture application in which film stock carries a conventional analog SVA soundtrack and a digital soundtrack with a digital representation of the software required to properly process the digital soundtrack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 14, 1995
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas E. Mandell, Martin J. Richards, Mark L. Atherton, Paul R. Goldberg, Mark F. Davis