Patents by Inventor W. Graham Tasman

W. Graham Tasman 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: 5353242
    Abstract: A process for controlling a gimballed motion base system substantially duplicating operator perceptions in a simulated vehicle. Such vehicles may include but not be limited to, aircraft, automobiles, boats, roller coasters, bob sleds, and futuristic space vehicles. The process includes: a subprocess accounting for an effect of yaw on a motion base arm, a full-G bias function and a limited-G bias function, a low-G bias function, improved computation of pitch and roll gimbal commands to negate artifacts, a negative-G process, allowing various yaw gimbal positions, allowing various cockpit orientations, and a yaw gimbal control process.A perceptual model based on empirically observed human response data predicts perceived pitch, roll, and yaw, and accounts for the fact that a Gy component of linear acceleration affects both roll and yaw perception.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1994
    Assignee: Veda Incorporated
    Inventors: Richard J. Crosbie, Joseph Colombo, W. Graham Tasman