Patents by Inventor Charles Norris
Charles Norris 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).
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Patent number: 11976262Abstract: A biological culture unit comprises a chamber body and a valve plate. The chamber body has defined therein a growth chamber and an aliquot chamber. The valve plate is disposed on the top surface of the chamber body and is movable to define selectable configurations of the biological culture unit for: (1) loading the growth chamber; (3) transferring an aliquot from the growth chamber to the aliquot chamber via a path defined within the biological culture unit in the transfer position; and (4) extracting the aliquot from the aliquot chamber. The selectable positions may further include (2) a growth position, and (5) a termination position for putting a termination agent into the growth and aliquot chambers. The valve plate may further include a neutralizer port that is aligned with the aliquot chamber in the loading position, for loading a neutralizing agent into the aliquot chamber.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTEInventors: Charles L. Desanti, Ryan W. Daly, David Charles Seibert, Jr., Patrick Norris, John Bartholomew, Sherry K. Blight
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Patent number: 7143678Abstract: A wire-cutting apparatus 10 used in the manufacture of bricks. The apparatus includes a pair of spaced generally parallel coextensive beams 13 and 14 between which cutting wires 15 pass. Associated with each wire 15 are groove-forming blades 27 and 28.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2001Date of Patent: December 5, 2006Assignee: Boral Bricks (NSW) Pty. Ltd.Inventor: Christopher Charles Norris Callow
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Publication number: 20020056356Abstract: A wire-cutting apparatus 10 used in the manufacture of bricks. The apparatus includes a pair of spaced generally parallel coextensive beams 13 and 14 between which cutting wires 15 pass. Associated with each wire 15 are groove-forming blades 27 and 28.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2001Publication date: May 16, 2002Inventor: Christopher Charles Norris Callow
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Patent number: 4966336Abstract: A fly fishing reel assembly has a line spool 4 mounted for rotation on a spindle 6 in a cage 2. Provided on the cage is a drag mechanism 11 having a rotor 12 co-axial with the spool and rotatable relative to the carrier. The resistance to rotation of the rotor 12 is variable by rotation of a wheel 15. Rotatable with the spool 8 are pivotted latch levers 20 which are engageable with a circumferential array of teeth 13 on the rotor. An adjustable slide ring 22 on the spool optionally pivotally adjusts the latch levers 20 from the first position in which relative rotation between the spool and cage in one sense of direction couples the spool through the latch levers 20 to rotate in unison with the rotor 13 (and therefore rotational resistance to be applied) whereas during said relative rotation in the opposite sense of direction the latch levers 20 trip over the teeth 13 for the spool to rotate freely.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 1989Date of Patent: October 30, 1990Assignee: House of Hardy LimitedInventors: Raymond Humble, Main Hudson, Charles Norris
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Patent number: 4013828Abstract: An image is scanned and dither processed in picture element groups of predetermined size, each corresponding to a group of cells of a remotely located display panel. As each picture element group is scanned, the pattern represented by the corresponding dithered image bits is compared to a dictionary of patterns stored in a first memory. If the pattern is not among those then in the memory, it is assigned an associated code word and is entered into the memory. In addition, both the pattern and its code word are transmitted to the remote location. They are there stored in a second memory, and individual cells of the cell group corresponding to the scanned picture elements are energized in accordance with the pattern. If, on the other hand, a scanned pattern is the same as one already stored in the first memory, only the code word associated with that pattern is transmitted to the remote location.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 1976Date of Patent: March 22, 1977Assignee: Bell Telephone Laboratories, IncorporatedInventor: Charles Norris Judice
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Patent number: 3997719Abstract: Bi-level display systems capable of presenting gray-scale images are adapted for brightness and contrast control by circuitry which varies the means and deviation of the threshold values assigned to the cells of the display panel.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 1975Date of Patent: December 14, 1976Assignee: Bell Telephone Laboratories, IncorporatedInventor: Charles Norris Judice
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Patent number: 3967052Abstract: The gray-scale information in a scanned image is presented on a bi-level display medium illustratively using the known ordered dither technique. In particular, the image is scanned in a matrix of picture elements, each corresponding to a different cell of the display medium. A dither threshold value is assigned to each picture element from a predetermined dither matrix. If the intensity of any given picture element is greater than the dither threshold value assigned thereto, the corresponding display cell is turned on. Otherwise, it is maintained off. The state of the cell corresponding to each picture element is represented by a dithered image bit. The bandwidth and/or time required to transmit the image to a remote display medium is substantially reduced by assembling in respective groups dithered image bits which correspond to picture elements having equal (or substantially equal) assigned dither threshold values.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 1975Date of Patent: June 29, 1976Assignee: Bell Telephone Laboratories, IncorporatedInventor: Charles Norris Judice
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Patent number: 3959583Abstract: The random cell scintillations which have been observed in animated dithered displays are substantially eliminated by establishing a hysteresis band about the dither threshold value assigned to each display cell. The hysteresis band is delimited by upper and lower dither threshold values. Determination of whether the intensity of each picture element of the image to be displayed is to be compared to the upper or the lower threshold value assigned to the corresponding display cell is made based on the current state of the cell.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 1975Date of Patent: May 25, 1976Assignee: Bell Telephone Laboratories, IncorporatedInventors: Charles Norris Judice, Charles Sheldon Roberts
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Patent number: 3953668Abstract: The flicker which results when an ordered dither image is displayed in an interlaced-field format is eliminated by energizing each display point of the interlaced-field display to have an intensity proportional to the average intensity of a cluster of (illustratively four) cells of the dithered image rather than the intensity of a single one of the cells.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 1975Date of Patent: April 27, 1976Assignee: Bell Telephone Laboratories, IncorporatedInventor: Charles Norris Judice
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Patent number: 3937878Abstract: Dithered display systems are adapted to present animated images via a conditional replenishment technique. The only cells of the display panel which are accessed for any given frame are cells which are to have states in that frame which differ from their respective states in the previous frame. Additionally, random scintillations in animated dithered displays are substantially eliminated by establishing a hysteresis band about the dither threshold value assigned to each display cell. The hysteresis band is delimited by upper and lower dither threshold values. Determination of whether the intensity of a given picture element of the image to be displayed is to be compared to the upper or the lower dither threshold value assigned to the corresponding display cell is made based on the current state of the cell.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 1975Date of Patent: February 10, 1976Assignee: Bell Telephone Laboratories, IncorporatedInventor: Charles Norris Judice