Patents by Inventor Anthony W. Heath

Anthony W. Heath 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: 20160044303
    Abstract: Display devices can be used to provide display functionality in dynamic autostereoscopic displays. One or more display devices are coupled to one or more appropriate computing devices. These computing devices control delivery of autostereoscopic image data to the display devices. A lens array coupled to the display devices, e.g., directly or through some light delivery device, provides appropriate conditioning of the autostereoscopic image data so that users can view dynamic autostereoscopic images. Methods and systems for calibrating a hogel display are also described, including generating calibration hogel data corresponding to a calibration pattern; generating a hogel light field from the calibration hogel data; detecting the hogel light field; and determining calibration data by analyzing a set of hogel properties in response to detecting the hogel light field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2014
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Mark E. Lucente, Tizhi Huang, Thomas L. Burnett, III, Michael A. Klug, Anthony W. Heath, Mark E. Holzbach
  • Publication number: 20150296203
    Abstract: Display devices can be used to provide display functionality in dynamic autostereoscopic displays. One or more display devices are coupled to one or more appropriate computing devices. These computing devices control delivery of autostereoscopic image data to the display devices. A lens array coupled to the display devices, e.g., directly or through some light delivery device, provides appropriate conditioning of the autostereoscopic image data so that users can view dynamic autostereoscopic images. Methods and systems for calibrating a hogel display are also described, including generating calibration hogel data corresponding to a calibration pattern; generating a hogel light field from the calibration hogel data; detecting the hogel light field; and determining calibration data by analyzing a set of hogel properties in response to detecting the hogel light field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2014
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventors: Mark E. Lucente, Tizhi Huang, Thomas L. Burnett, III, Michael A. Klug, Anthony W. Heath, Mark E. Holzbach
  • Publication number: 20080170293
    Abstract: It has been discovered that emissive display devices can be used to provide display functionality in dynamic autostereoscopic displays. One or more emissive display devices are coupled to one or more appropriate computing devices. These computing devices control delivery of autostereoscopic image data to the emissive display devices. A lens array coupled to the emissive display devices, e.g., directly or through some light delivery device, provides appropriate conditioning of the autostereoscopic image data so that users can view dynamic autostereoscopic images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2007
    Publication date: July 17, 2008
    Inventors: Mark E. Lucente, Michael A. Klug, Anthony W. Heath, Tizhi Huang, Mark E. Holzbach
  • Publication number: 20080144174
    Abstract: It has been discovered that display devices can be used to provide display functionality in dynamic autostereoscopic displays. One or more display devices are coupled to one or more appropriate computing devices. These computing devices control delivery of autostereoscopic image data to the display devices. A lens array coupled to the display devices, e.g., directly or through some light delivery device, provides appropriate conditioning of the autostereoscopic image data so that users can view dynamic autostereoscopic images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2007
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Inventors: Mark E. Lucente, Tizhi Huang, Thomas L. Burnett, Michael A. Klug, Anthony W. Heath, Mark E. Holzbach
  • Patent number: 6567193
    Abstract: A system for forming holographic pixels on the surface of a workpiece is disclosed. The system comprises a laser generating a laser beam; a beam splitter dividing the laser beam into a first beam and a second beam; a controller providing as output at least one control signal; and at least one beam deflector receptive of the first and second laser beams guiding the first and second laser beams along different paths to a prescribed pixel location on the surface of the workpiece, thereby combining the first and second laser beams at a prescribed azimuthal direction and included angle. At least one beam deflector is receptive of the at least one control signal thereby controllably deflecting at least one of the first laser beam and the second laser beam to the prescribed pixel location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2003
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian J. Monaghan, Anthony W. Heath
  • Patent number: 6549309
    Abstract: Holographic patterns are produced by utilizing a laser to illuminate a workpiece with an interference pattern, with sufficient laser power to ablate the workpiece where it is illuminated by the laser, and moving the workpiece and the interference pattern relative to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2003
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Brian J. Monaghan, Anthony W. Heath
  • Patent number: 6388780
    Abstract: Apparatus for producing dot matrix holograms through laser ablation utilizing only two two-axis, low-inertia beam deflectors to control the maximum holographic direction, and the holographic coloration of the individual pixels of the holograms, and the method of utilizing that apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Brian J. Monaghan, Anthony W. Heath
  • Publication number: 20020054403
    Abstract: A system for forming holographic pixels on the surface of a workpiece is disclosed. The system comprises a laser generating a laser beam; a beam splitter dividing the laser beam into a first beam and a second beam; a controller providing as output at least one control signal; and at least one beam deflector receptive of the first and second laser beams guiding the first and second laser beams along different paths to a prescribed pixel location on the surface of the workpiece, thereby combining the first and second laser beams at a prescribed azimuthal direction and included angle. At least one beam deflector is receptive of the at least one control signal thereby controllably deflecting at least one of the first laser beam and the second laser beam to the prescribed pixel location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2001
    Publication date: May 9, 2002
    Inventors: Brian J. Monaghan, Anthony W. Heath