Patents by Inventor Thomas W. Scrutchin, Jr.

Thomas W. Scrutchin, Jr. 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: 4870611
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and system for creating a visual display of data from an input data set in which the data are not fixed into display-acceptable format until the data are stored in a local memory of the visual display. At least one of a plurality of sources of resource information is initially selected as required by the input data set. Control signals corresponding to the sources of resource information are thereafter embedded into the input data set to form an output data set. Subsequently, the selected sources of resource information and the output data set are applied to the local memory. They are concurrently taken from this local memory to produce a visual display. Fixation of the data into display acceptable format is thereby postponed until just prior to actual display to thereby provide a substantial increase in system flexibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1984
    Date of Patent: September 26, 1989
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mary S. Martin, Harley D. Puckett, Jr., Thomas W. Scrutchin, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4649513
    Abstract: A method and a system for creating visual displays in a visual display device of data from an input data set. First, at least one of a plurality of stored sources of resource information is selected. Each of these sources is defined by and under the control of signals stored in a plurality of page definition files. These page definition files are stored separately from the input data set and the sources of resource information. Visual-presentation control signals are embedded into this input data set to generate an output data set. This selected resource information and the output data set are then stored in a local memory for enabling the desired visual displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1987
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mary S. Martin, Elizabeth McCord, Harley D. Puckett, Jr., Thomas W. Scrutchin, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4531120
    Abstract: A machine-implemented method and computerized system for superposing one graphic pattern on another graphic pattern wherein the graphics are represented and generated electrically by rectangular arrays of digital signals corresponding to dot raster patterns to be printed or displayed. One graphic is a superior, or dominant, graphic while a second graphic is an inferior, or recessive, graphic. A computer is programmed to process the digital signals for producing dominant graphic contoured intermediate arrays for masking the array of the inferior graphic to produce a partial or fragmented array. The partial array is DOT ORed with the dominant graphic array to produce a pattern of superposed graphics separated by a background space contoured to the dominant graphic pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 1983
    Date of Patent: July 23, 1985
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kendrick C. Brownell, Jr., Thomas W. Scrutchin, Jr.