Patents by Inventor Benjamin V. Cox, Jr.

Benjamin V. Cox, 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).

  • Method and apparatus for filtering digital data by concatenating preprocessed overlapping groups of the data
    Patent number: 5101445
    Abstract: An image, of the type that is comprised of an array of pixels, is filtered by the steps of: (a) reading a respective group of pixels from the array for each individual pixel that is in the array, with each pixel group overlapping other pixel groups and consisting of pixels that are contiguous with the individual pixel; (b) quantizing each of the respective groups of pixels; (c) retrieving from a memory, a single pixel for each quantized group of pixels, with the single pixel being the result of a pre-performed transformation on the quantized group of pixels; and (d) concatenating the retrieved pixels to form the filter image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1989
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1992
    Assignee: Unisys Corporation
    Inventors: Roger W. Call, Benjamin V. Cox, Jr.