Patents by Inventor Michael W. Tackaberry

Michael W. Tackaberry 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: 5319744
    Abstract: A method for distortion correction of computer-generated textured images maps vertices and texture coefficients from viewer space to projector space, so that environmental objects are pre-distorted upon the projection raster in order to appear in their proper form and perspective when the raster is projected onto a curved surface in viewer space, and viewed therefrom. Distortion correction is carried out by utilizing a piecewise-linear approximation for smoothly, continuously and closely approximating the required pre-curvature. The viewing space raster is subdivided into a number of triangles, within each of which a linear approximation is applied to the image mapping: the raster faces are first subdivided along the lines of a rectangular grid and the face fragments falling within each rectangle are then subdivided along the grid diagonal. This produces face fragments which are small enough so that a linear approximation provides an accurate transformation of each fragment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1994
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: William A. Kelly, Lee T. Quick, Edward M. Sims, Michael W. Tackaberry