Patents by Inventor Steven E. Lindsley

Steven E. Lindsley 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).

  • Publication number: 20030033332
    Abstract: The CDU Page Builder is a software tool that provides a means for full life-cycle development of an MCDU page with respect to display format and related key operation. The tool employs a graphical, domain-centered, aircrew-familiar user interface for page definition. The tool is hosted on a cost-effective, widely-available personal computer platform. Once defined, a page may be viewed in the format used for definition or using representative data. Once several pages are defined, the interactions within and between pages can be simulated, thus allowing potential users of a system to experience the look and feel of the ultimate system. Documentation may be associated with the various aspects of the page and then generated in a form suitable for use as software requirements. Finally, the page definition can be used to generate software source code that implements the desired display characteristics and key operation of the page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2001
    Publication date: February 13, 2003
    Inventor: Steven E. Lindsley
  • Patent number: 5606657
    Abstract: The virtual graphics processor is a software process that enables different video display systems to execute the same graphical display application. The process also permits the display application to be updated or reconfigured in real time without changing the embedded display system software. The parts of the virtual graphics processor include an application graphics database for storing graphic primitives and associated static primitive data defining one or more graphic pages in a display application. An image control interface (video library) associates graphic functions of the particular video display system with graphic primitives in a requested page. An instruction sequencer within the virtual graphics processor responds to a display request by obtaining the requested graphic page from the graphics database and associated graphics functions from the video library.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1997
    Assignee: Honeywell Inc.
    Inventors: Tamara G. Dennison, Jesse G. Fisher, Steven E. Lindsley, Thomas A. Weingartner