Patents by Inventor David Charles Smart

David Charles Smart 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: 20080100586
    Abstract: A method for calibrating a touch screen. Method may be comprised of determining an area for a region suitable for receiving, excluding activations determined to be located within a defined distance from the outer edge of the area determined for the region, accumulating a pattern of activations for a centroid within the region, and tuning a calibration factor to reposition the centroid within the center of the region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2006
    Publication date: May 1, 2008
    Inventor: David Charles Smart
  • Patent number: 6496885
    Abstract: A network includes a plurality of electronic control units (ECU) connected with each other and receiving messages via a bus, each message having an identifier portion and a data portion. An ECU processes messages by converting the message identifier to a hash value, comparing the hash value to a plurality of index values stored in a lookup table, the lookup table having relevance values corresponding to each index value, discarding the message if a corresponding relevance value indicates that the message is not relevant to the ECU, inserting the message into memory buffer if a corresponding relevance value indicates that the message is relevant to the ECU, and further processing only selected ones of the messages in the buffer. Preferably, the hash value has fewer data bits than that of the identifier portion of the messages, and the number of unique hash values is the same as a number of index values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2002
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: David Charles Smart, Jerry Norman Kitchen, Jeremy T. Yoder