Patents by Inventor Carson Blaine Clanton

Carson Blaine Clanton 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).

  • System for optical recognition, interpretation, and digitization of human readable instruments, annunciators, and controls
    Patent number: 9202098
    Abstract: A system for optically recognizing, interpreting, and digitizing human readable instruments, annunciators, and controls includes an image acquisition sensor operable to capture images of at least one of the instruments, annunciators, and controls; and a logic processing unit operable to decode the images captured by the image acquisition sensor and interpret the decoded images to determine a state of the at least one of the instruments, annunciators, and controls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Textron Innovations Inc.
    Inventors: George Steven Lewis, Carson Blaine Clanton
  • System for Optical Recognition, Interpretation, and Digitization of Human Readable Instruments, Annunciators, and Controls
    Publication number: 20110149067
    Abstract: A system for optically recognizing, interpreting, and digitizing human readable instruments, annunciators, and controls includes an image acquisition sensor operable to capture images of at least one of the instruments, annunciators, and controls; and a logic processing unit operable to decode the images captured by the image acquisition sensor and interpret the decoded images to determine a state of the at least one of the instruments, annunciators, and controls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2008
    Publication date: June 23, 2011
    Inventors: George Steven Lewis, Carson Blaine Clanton