Patents by Inventor David J. Ketcham

David J. Ketcham 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: 20250059167
    Abstract: Disclosed herein, inter alia, are compounds and methods of use thereof for the modulation of certain chemokine receptor activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Jeffrey J. Jackson, John Michael Ketcham, Akinori Okano, Maureen Kay Reilly, Omar Robles-Resendiz, Jacob Bradley Schwarz, Parcharee Tivitmahaisoon, David Juergen Wustrow, Ashkaan Younai, Mikhail Zibinsky
  • Patent number: 3996421
    Abstract: A raster display system is disclosed which utilizes a "sliding window" effect for enhancing the contrast of an image by adjusting the video gain and brightness within the window. The television display may have a raster having 512 lines and 512 elements per line. The display system utilizing digital circuitry calculates the average brightness of a "window" having a predetermined number of elements per display line and several parallel display lines, such as, for example, eight lines and eight elements per line. Thus, an eight-by-eight window is presented. The average brightness of the window is subtracted from the brightness of a centrally located element which results in the relative brightness of the element. This relative brightness signal is multiplied by a gain factor and the product is applied to an output circuit for controlling the bias of a central element of the window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1975
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1976
    Assignee: Hughes Aircraft Company
    Inventors: Michael D. Pruznick, David J. Ketcham, Roger W. Lowe, Eugene W. Opittek
  • Patent number: 3983320
    Abstract: Real time histogram equalization systems for a television type display that performs equalization with one or two dimensional processing on a local area or sliding window basis. For the two dimensional system, the intensity for any particular point in the image is adjusted according to a histogram of the area contained within a window immediately surrounding the point to be equalized. The histogram forming window provided by the system moves across the image in two dimensions both horizontally along each of a plurality of overlapping segments arranged parallel in the vertical dimension, and at each window position reassigned center picture elements are equalized. The processing of the histograms area or the sliding process is continued over the entire surface of the raster with the process being then repeated in a continuous fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1975
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1976
    Assignee: Hughes Aircraft Company
    Inventors: David J. Ketcham, Roger W. Lowe, Michael D. Pruznick, Eugene W. Opittek
  • Patent number: 3979555
    Abstract: A histogram equalization system that adaptively redistributes the intensity coding of the video in order to provide an equal number of elements at all display intensity levels. The actual amplitude value of the input video as stored in an integrator, for example, is utilized to address a random access memory which originally is loaded with all zeros. The memory is organized such that there are as many addressable words as there are possible video intensity values carried in the integrator thereby building up a histogram within the memory. Upon completion of the histogram, a constant equal to the number of picture elements corresponding to the data used to form the histogram divided by the number of values to which it is desired to truncate, is utilized in a comparator as the histogram memory is sequentially read out and accumulated to determine the truncation points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1975
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1976
    Assignee: Hughes Aircraft Company
    Inventors: Eugene W. Opittek, David J. Ketcham, Edward J. Dragavon