Patents by Inventor Thomas M. Carroll

Thomas M. Carroll 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).

  • System and method for generating a pattern from an image
    Patent number: 5058174
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for generating a pattern for making rugs corresponding to a predefined image. The predefined image is scanned by a video camera to generate a video image corresponding to the predefined image. A frame grabber captures one frame of the video image. The captured image is isolated and compressed by a CPU into a compressed image corrresponding to the video image and having a limited number of subareas, each subarea having a color. The CPU compares the color of each subarea to the colors in a look-up table to define a 48-color image. A printer creates from the 48-color image the pattern corresponding to the predefined image and an inventory identifying the numbers and colors of yarns needs to make a rug from the pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1991
    Inventor: Thomas M. Carroll
  • Combination cooler, stool and table
    Patent number: D305850
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 6, 1990
    Assignee: River City Drum, Inc.
    Inventors: Warren J. Peterson, Thomas M. Carroll
  • Barbecue grill
    Patent number: D402499
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 15, 1998
    Assignee: Kay Home Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas M. Carroll