Patents by Inventor Bruce E. Hamilton

Bruce E. Hamilton 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).

  • Helicopter virtual image display system incorporating structural outlines
    Patent number: 5296854
    Abstract: A virtual image display system provides video displays based upon virtual images of the external world having synchronized structural outlines superimposed on the video displays to a pilot operating an aircraft such as a helicopter in non-visual flight conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1994
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Bruce E. Hamilton, Lorren Stiles, Howard P. Harper
  • Power management symbology display system
    Patent number: 5150117
    Abstract: A power management symbology (PMS) display system for helicopters that provides a continually updated, combined analog/digital symbolic display of selected status information vis-a-vis the helicopter powerplant. The PMS display system includes a multi-dimensional, continuously updated, combined analog/digital display symbol that is optimized for discriminability and compatibility with respect to the pilot's visual system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1992
    Assignee: United Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Bruce E. Hamilton, Lorren Stiles, Howard P. Harper
  • Contact-analog headup display method and apparatus
    Patent number: 5072218
    Abstract: Images are provided to a pilot in an aircraft overflying the earth by means of a helmet mounted display system. The position and attitude of the aircraft with respect to the earth and the attitude of the helmet with respect to the aircraft are monitored in order to convert a plurality of stored earth position signals into helmet coordinates. Earth points which are viewable by the pilot are displayed using symbolic images thereof such that the symbolic images coincide, from the pilot's point of view, with the actual positions of the viewable points on the earth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1991
    Inventors: Robert E. Spero, Bruce E. Hamilton, Howard P. Harper, Thomas E. Wright, Lorren Stiles, Robert C. Kass, James J. Licari